It's Been a While
I haven't been back to Cape Canaveral in a while, since when? Too long, anyway. The longest amount of time since we bought the place, I believe. It will be even longer with my surgery for a bunionectomy scheduled on the 20th. I'm missing it. There is a mental switch that gets flipped when I am down in Florida. I can't attribute it to anything in particular. I thought it was perhaps the weather or humidity, and there may be something in that -- I like vacationing down in Puerto Vallaraa, for example, and like PV more than I like Cabo San Lucas -- but it isn't solely the weather (especially the sunshine). I think in part it is the smells, the smell of the ocean, the smell of tropical foliage. The key is that in total, whatever the triggers may be, they take me back to my childhood. A couple years ago if you had said that I would be buying a place in Florida, I would have laughed. I didn't like Florida. That's what I said to Jen. And there were good reasons for not...