In the ultimate bougie showdown, I somehow managed to out eat (e:paul) and (e:yesthatcasey) at the whole foods in Sarasota. I ended up with nearly 1.5 pounds of food, more than (e:paul)'s $12 meal. I did not buy a $4 coconut drink or dessert plus the ridiculous $12 a pound cherries they sold him. I refuse to go here once it opens in Buffalo. A lady was being carted away by ambulance when we got there. I'd like to think it was a severe case of sticker shock.









This flamingo bike was pretty awesome

A swampy wetland full of gators, turtles, and otters (didn't get to see any of those though :(). It did have a short wooden tower and bridge you could climb up and see forever from.

Just walking down a paved path in the palm woods made me wonder how people managed to live in Florida before they drained the Everglades. I read a little bit about the Seminoles in the area and their wars that led to their displacement/genocide. Maybe I'll post about that sometime.

I had a cold for a good chunk of the vacation. So I was taking sudafed to help unstuff me for a bit.

When I played some disastorous beer pong with the Mickelson clan, I failed realize how crazy it get. (e:xandra) has a pretty weird video of me.

Despite the craziness of a broken discount plane and a pathological liar we experienced last Friday that (e:Paul) wrote about, we got off safely on Saturday.

I haven't been on a plane in 12 years, also to Florida, so it was a cool experience. The carbon footprint makes me cringe but I guess I don't do it often? Not good.

Anyway it was kind of like riding in a Greyhound, just louder and no Amish smells. The view when you take off and land is nice too. it reminds me of SimCity seeing all the neat little rows of farms and roads and towns.

My favorite transportation is still bike then Amtrak.

We went down to Zoar with (e:uchina) and (e:yesthatcasey) so we could float down the river. The rapids were crazy fun and weather was pretty good.

Masumi flipped once but other than that no casualties don't the rocks.