I’ve been volunteering at the Salvation Army here in Fort Myers each morning for the last month. It gets me out of the flat, I get to actually have conversations with people other than Rasmus, and I make a teeny difference (through filing, answering the door with a smile, doing mock interviews for job-searching clients)….
We spent Saturday in the Everglades, a big National Park in the southern end of Florida. It’s just about an hour and a half’s drive from us here so after breakfast we drove down there to explore a bit. Our first stop was Speedy’s Airboat tours, for an hour’s tour of the grasslands and mangrove…
On Saturday, after a hot morning at the driving range, we headed for what seems to be the only cultural tourist attraction in Fort Myers: the winter holiday homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. We went expecting it to be a pleasant diversion for an hour, walking around a couple of homes with old…
Just a few photos of our first five days here…
sleepily unpacking and trying to figure out how the AC works…
A weekend away with my sister Jen was spent getting deliriously excited (and can I admit teary eyed?!) over the royal wedding, joining in a local street party, and then heading for the Peak District for three days to indulge all our best Jane Austen fantasies by going to not one, not two, but three old stately homes!…