Andy and his wife were going to Key Largo. I couldn’t land on the Key Largo Private strip because they’re not members of the Ocean Reef Club, and apparently they couldn’t get anyone to let them land there either. So we went into Miami Homestead instead, which isn’t too far away from there. I got 50 gallons of gas to waive their fuel charges, and then went VFR over to Venice, Florida. I’m not sure what’s worse. Flying IFR in Florida or flying VFR in Florida. My traffic system was dinging and going off all the time for awhile there. There were thunderstorm cells all over. Airspace is messy, except not right where I was thankfully. It was only a 35 min flight over there, but jeepers, it felt like it took forever.
I had gotten a hotel room from my phone app while we were flying along, and picked the room I wanted, and requested a digital key, and put the credit card on file. When I landed, I pulled up the app and checked that Lyft was $7.97 for a ride to my hotel, and Uber was $12.95 for the same ride, so Lyft it was. Very nice car, nice dude, no problems, 10 minute ride to the hotel.
Walked right up to my room and unlocked my door with my phone, settled in and did some work, had a bunch of texts, and then walked to a nearby Italian restaurant for dinner. I normally would have chosen differently, but this was .3 mile away and I was walking and it’s hotter than shit down here. So Italian sounded lovely, and better than gas station food. ;)
This is where I had the calamari linguini with white wine, garlic, olive oil sauce. The pasta and sauce were delicious, the bread was hot and fresh, and the lemon marscipone small cake slice was also delicious. The calamari was steamed, and the little rings were good, but man, they had the baby squid in there too, the whole things, with legs and shit, and that was nasty. Even breaded and fried I don’t like looking at the whole creature and all its legs. Let alone when it’s steamed and on my plate looking alive. Just…urp. I took a photo and texted it to Steve and Kaylee and said “HELL no”. I ate everything else, but not them. I took them and some leftover pasta in a to go box and threw it away once I got to a gas station trash. Nope. No. Uh-uh.
Went into the gas station to get a drink and a snack for later, or for tomorrow, and headed back to the room to work on tomorrow’s flights. Home from Venice, to Frankfort, then down to Atlanta and back. Long day, but not terrible. Any day I’m by myself for part of it, with fast internet, quiet music, nice weather, and a paycheck, well, some days just aren’t bad. ;)
I’d post pics but Google/Blogger won’t let me from my iPad/iPhone any more, and I don’t know why… So I’ll have to go back next time I’m home with the laptop and reinsert them…
(Like now)
Kaylee as a bridesmaid before her makeup was done even, with the bride (Caitlin) and all the others. Don't they look beautiful?
Florida Views
The tiny Italian restaurant. Had 9 tables inside!
My grodie nasty squid that still looked alive and like it would grab my throat on the way down
You can tell how hot it is even just in this picture
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