This little green Daewoo (rental) car is killing my back... I poked down
along the coast and drove most of the way through the Everglades (in the
dark: spooky: "panther-crossings") without seeing any motels... finally,
just the Miccosukee _Resort (I hate that word) and Casino... I _had to
stop I was so tired... it cost $79 (a special: for one or two) with
breakfast... very fancy though: bathrobes, embroidered slippers,
hairdryers, scales, numerous lotions and potions in the bath, video games,
saunas, pool, Matisee reproductions on the walls, there are three phones
in my single room...). I may double-back to the Miccosukee Indian Village
airboat ride through the grassy Everglades... it's either that or a quick
visit to the Keys. Both places that I've stayed had safes in the rooms. I
recorded the cacaphony of (video-slot machine) sounds in the casino (but
didn't escape being 'inspected' by guards thrice... they watch everyone
from the ceiling cameras... they didn't detect my little minidisc recorder
and mic though :-)) There's a "rapid-bingo" game here: you choose a board
with three numbers and the game is over in half-a-minute... I thought the
same thing in Nevada a few years-back: practically everyone here looks
especially un-exceptional... And some nice photos of swirling searchlights
out-front, of a cloudy full moon (possible 12hr-imagery)... No one was at
Graphicsstudio Sunday (not all that surprising I guess), but I'm arranging
a time to visit on Friday/Saturday... giving me a little time for this
quick tour... Florida is very flat and for the most part really _is
largely populated with morose, pudgy, upper-middle-class white retirees__
... still, all that water, and the intercoastal waterways and lakes, and
the sun, and the inexpensive rents in parts, _do seem appealing... Not as
crowded as California.
/:b
