Six Miles, Bobby Eats out of Buckets Now, Fluoride Deodorant, and Less a Luddite Than I Thought

[dawn_felagund]

I will start by saying that my angst in the last post over the pictures I thought I took but couldn't find was misplaced. I did take them (ha I knew it), but my phone cut out in the middle of the upload to Photobucket, and for some reason, it uploaded the pictures at the beginning and the end first, which gave me the impression that the ones in the

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[talullahred]

Oh wow, beautiful pictures! That's a dream holiday. I love your description of food and the bit about the nutcase was so funny.

Have fun!!

[dawn_felagund]

We had the time of our lives! We will very definitely be trying to return.

The funny thing about Crazy-Fundy Beach Chair Guy: The one thing he told us that I thought might be true--about where Panama City got its name--also turned out to be a much twisted version of fact. One wonders how the brains of such people work!

[heartofoshun]

The pictures are great, Dawn. The food all sounds so good also.

[dawn_felagund]

We ate like kings. My favorite meal ended up being the grouper at Bayou Bill's. I would order that again in a heartbeat!

[indy1776]

Thank you; I now have a name for slash and longleaf pines. I just called them "pines." And now I'm craving fresh seafood…

[dawn_felagund]

I noticed them right away; they are so different than our white pines here in the mid-Atlantic. As soon as the trails we were walking provided names for them, I soaked it up! :)

Speaking of trees ... did your magnolia weather this winter as well? I saw one when we were in Florida and immediately thought of you.

[indy1776]

My magnolia took a hit; most of the leaves have large amounts of brown. We had lows around -15 (without factoring in the windchill) for a couple of nights, and it's the second winter in a row that it's suffered badly. So it's a wait-and-see game if it'll survive. But it's my own fault for wanting a tree out of its zone, despite the fact that there are several of them large and thriving in my neighborhood.

[dawn_felagund]

I hope it pulls through. I figured you all had terrible cold this winter as well. It looks like we might have lost the arborvitae that we planted to replace the arborvitae lost in last winter's ice storms, and that is about as native a species as it gets, so I think the weather deserves at least some of the blame.

[suzll]

Oh, these are lovely!! And I don't think I had a chance to comment on your other post, but jealous of your 26-and-over hotel deal (we were less fortunate in terms of avoiding the spring break crowd :P). Enjoy the waters and the palmettos!

[dawn_felagund]

I did! :) I wondered if Spring Break would affect Orlando as well, since it wasn't coastal. Sorry that it apparently did. :^/ We managed to effectively avoid it in PCB, thanks to the hotel and sticking mostly to parks rather than public beaches.

I loved your pictures on Tumblr, btw!

[rhapsody11]

I'll try to keep it brief. (Har.)

LOL I am used to it, it is something that my hubby mutters a lot. But I just love the relaxation on both your faces.

[dawn_felagund]

I just want to memorialize every detail! :D I had to do two separate posts for our last two days because the first was so long!

It was a relaxing trip, despite all the swimming, hiking, and rowing. :D It made us sleep well at night.