My full day in Key West was exhausting, dahlings (I did over 20,000 steps), but great fun. I got up, did the morning stuff, had breakfast, and headed out. I was in fact slathered in sunscreen, and wished I'd had a real wide-brimmed sunhat rather than just a baseball cap - it was very bright …
Month: March 2025
Florida Keys, Day 4: Marathon to Key West
My second half of the Keys was maybe a bit less successful than the previous day, but as I have to tell myself sometimes, no one's grading me. The problems, which were not major ones, were that it was very bright and hot and sunny, and also, although I thought I'd checked, a lot of …
Florida Keys, Day 3: Key Largo to Marathon
Finally, a chance to use my carefully-curated map and list of stops in order! (No, I didn't go to that stop out in the water, sillies. That's the "Christ of the Deep", part of the Pennekamp park, which I would have seen if my glass-bottom boat tour hadn't been cancelled.) Got up, cleaned up, breakfast, …
Florida Keys, Day 2
This was my full day in Key Largo, and I'd planned to spend most of it at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. Judging from the website, it had all sorts of stuff to do. I'd decided to start the day with a glass-bottom boat tour, which I'd already booked, but I'd gotten an email …
Florida Keys, Day 1
I had, of course, gotten back from a big trip at the end of last year, but I'd known I'd want to get away mid-spring and once my schedule was set, I saw a window between the run of Jesus Christ Superstar and the start of orchestral rehearsals and the two concerts we're doing at …
So it’s spring
This will be quick and scattershot, as I'm leaving for the airport in a half hour or so. I'm squeezing in a little vacation between orchestra rehearsals, checking off a bucket list item and driving the Florida Keys. I'll do a blow-by-blow here, although, like the West Coast trip, it might be after the fact. …
JCS and a whole bunch of stuff
We just finished weekend one of Jesus Christ Superstar and I'll go into that in detail in a bit. First, the country is going through such stuff and it's so big that I thought I should sometimes just pick one particular facet and tell you what I think. Today, it will be "American exceptionalism". I …
Grrr Arrrgh, plus Death Becomes Her, Anora
I think I should probably prepare to write a blog post revealing my opinions about what's going on in the world right now, the efficacy of protests, my fears about my own life, my family's safety and rippling outward through my community, my state, my country and, you know, all of us everywhere. I don't …
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