Bill's Trips 2020

Delaware Chicken Farm & Fish Market  We began our second week in North Miami Beach with a Weight Watcher weigh in in Hollywood Beach.  Emboldened by our positive results, we immediately made for Delaware chicken Farm & Fish Market .  You read that right.  Chicken farm and fish market.  Since 1951 this family-owned market has been providing the best fish, chicken, and meats in the area.  Marilyn learned about it during a fitness class at the Y here.  We had to wait about ten minutes for a spot to open up in the parking lot where a Hollywood police officer was managing traffic.  This was a late morning weekday, no less.  We brought two large salmon fillets, a pound of sea scallops and 3/4 pound of shrimp.  Five delicious meals.  This is a local favorite.  We were glad we found it. On Sunday, we drove less than ten minutes down to Miami for Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Mary.  In 1958, 16 counties in South Florida were "detracted" from the Archdiocese o

 s Our first week here was spent getting to know the area, shopping for food, finding a YMCA, shopping for clothes and exploring the beach and other activities.  Our rental is not much to look at from the outside.  The inside is neat, clean and relatively roomy for a one-bedroom mobile home.  It has a great entertainment center with a 50-inch screen.  I brought our Roku stick from home so we can enjoy all the programs we normally watch.  The wifi signal is fast and strong  There is no landscaping around our unit and not much throughout the neighborhood.  However, the price point was within our budget.  We are only 15 minutes from an extensive public beach and from Aventura Mall , the biggest mall either of us has ever seen.  Also, we are five minutes from a Costco. We found the closest YMCA in Hallandale Beach about 15 minutes away.  It is brand new and very user-friendly.  We had some trouble getting access as Y members since we didn't show up as national members.  A friendl

Mango blossoms in Orlando On February 1 we left Rochester to spend seven weeks away from winter in Florida.  The weather in Rochester had been relatively mild for winter and when we left it didn't feel all that wintry.  However, within a week, our decision to flee was vindicated by a winter storm that was predicted to drop 11 inches of snow with temperatures in the single digits.  By that time, we were in Orlando where we enjoyed clear weather in the seventies. But before that, we spent two days in Centreville VA near Dulles Airport with my brother Tom and his wife Sarah.  It was an easy seven-hour drive there with clear weather and gradually increasing warmth.  We were treated to a delicious dinner on our arrival and enjoyed visiting.  While we had seen them two weeks earlier in Kansas City at our sister Louisa's funeral, we really had not been able to just relax two of our favorite people. KC boy showing his colors KC going crazy after victory However, the