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Overheard an airline customer service agent in the hotel bar. Her colleagues call the Jerry Springer Show “church.”

Fort Lauderdale, final Florida beach on this trip. Enjoyed fish and chips: a nod to my heritage, a seaside tradition.

Posted Pleading the Fifth in Naples, Florida.

Police stopped me twice in posh Naples, FL. Apparently I resemble a similarly scruffy, but demented lost husband.

Saturday, I drop Dwight off at MIA for his flight to MSP. I’ll spend the weekend with friends in their Naples condo.

Florida Keys: we walked across the sea on a bridge that originally carried a railroad.

It rained while I did laundry.

Wacky water games at the kids pool.

Explored the Keys on a bicycle with a cupholder.

We searched for geckos, then manatees.

Ripped, untimely, from their Minnesota beds this morning, our nephews burned off energy in the Gulf at Key Largo.

Key Largo, peaceful evening before Spring Break: tomorrow our energetic nephews + parents + mother-out-law fly in.

Cycled through the Everglades past apparently somnolent alligators and elegant long legged birds.

Marco Island: walked miles on a crunchy (shells) beach.

Today: saltwater marshes and soggy hiking paths.

AUA/MIA, Air Surinam, then rental car to Marco Island. Lowered median age at hotspot, Snook Inn, closing at 10:00 pm.