Today was a lot of the same: enormous houses, miles of condos, enormous houses, miles of condos, repeat. Toss in a small strip mall here and there, and that was just about my day. Consequently, it's going to make for a snoozer entry so I hope you can manage to tough it out.
I stopped by the bank to mortgage our house so I could pay for breakfast, then went to a bakery for a pastry and a coffee.
As opposed to yesterday afternoon and evening when it was bumper to bumper, the roads are mostly deserted this morning.
I saw several of these along the beach, each one a different combination of pastel colors, and wondered what they were until I got a good look from the other side: public restrooms.
I have to be honest, I've been pleasantly surprised at how accommodating and friendly the drivers have been. No one has been tailgating, or trying to squeeze past, or honking. Of course, I'm still smelling marijuana from some of the passing cars, so there's that.
Steve Miller/GrampiesAt least with a headwind you can maintain your line and stay upright. It is just like climbing all day, exhausting! A side wind is worse. It feels like you are being pushed over sideways and if there is a lot of traffic you can get blown over into it. Reply to this comment 3 weeks ago
There aren't any campgrounds in this area, and only a single response from all of the Warm Showers hosts I asked. Unfortunately, the brief response was: "Hey. Very sorry. I’m not available. Out of town. Cheers." I checked into a hotel, a small, dark, moist room, then went in search of dinner. By the way, the city I'm staying in, Dania Beach, is pronounced DANEya Beach.
I saw this on the way to dinner:
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS... that's a lot of money for a cat. Maybe there's a misplaced decimal.
Mark BinghamTo Rich FrasierAnd when someone asks what I do for a living I could say, "Oh, not, much. I'm retired.... just a catnap here and there." Reply to this comment 3 weeks ago
I was going to stop at the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States, a 110-foot, 700-ton (30 meters/700,000 kg) statue called Pegasus and Dragon, but somehow I overlooked it when making my route today. At night there's a show with 350 fog nozzles, 116 water nozzles, and special LED lighting. The dragon spews 20 feet of flames during the presentation. I could do without the show, but would've liked to have seen it otherwise. Unsurprisingly, it sits in front of a casino, and they're the ones who put up the 30 million dollars for it.
