Devall Travels

A lie in. Cereal for breakfast. No bagels. No peanut butter. The out to see the street art at Flagler Art Village in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Once we got there it was pretty closed. So we had lunch at Henry's on the block.  Superb sandwiches. And coffee. Claire wanted to see the beach so we headed towards Ft Lauderdale Beach and A1A. Into heavy traffic. Nowhere to park and a pop concert clogging up the area. One entrepreneur offering "beach parking" for $40. Finally back and Claire in the pool. Me? Not today. Shade for me with Kindle. The pool is probably safer than the lakes on each side of the property. Gator!

After a trip we always like to have a rest day or maybe just a local day. Today we got up later and breakfasted before deciding to go to Fort Lauderdale beach. In the end we decided on a river boat trip from Las Olas. The trip is 90 minutes up the New River and as far a Port Everglades and then back looking at the expensive river side houses of the likes of Wendy of burger fame, Sunglass Hut, Alamo car rental to name a few. And Leonard Nimoy's house behind the Hyatt 66 hotel. The hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. After the boat trip we had lunch in an Oirish pub right on the riverfront. You can sit in the shaded front and watch the boats go by and through the draw bridge nearby. It was on the return boat trip that Claire's camera started to play up. Taking pix but showing an error. We used the wifi to locate a Walmart and we set off.  I thought if we could buy a cheap micro SD card and adapter we could save the 600 plus pix she...