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Annoyances Driving Travel

The Road Rage Files – Chapter 17

If you tried to drive anywhere within the cities of Homestead and Florida City this morning right around Lunch time then I’m guessing that you were stuck in the same ridiculous situation as me.

A construction crew accidentally cut a natural gas line located under Campbell Drive near the overpass of Florida’s Turnpike this morning, and that caused authorities to completely shut-down the southern 5 miles of the Turnpike from Biscayne Drive down to the terminus at Useless-One in Florida City as a precautionary measure.

That caused MASSIVE gridlock like I’ve never seen before in my life on Biscayne Drive (SW 288TH Street), Avocado Drive (SW 296TH Street), Kings Highway (SW 304TH Street), Campbell Drive (SW 312TH Street), Farm Life School Road (SW 162ND Avenue), and Useless-One (U.S. 1) which truly lived up to its name as it was pretty much a 10 to 15 MPH logjam of continuous vehicles northbound and southbound from Florida City to Homestead to Leisure City to Naranja Lakes and beyond.

Florida’s Turnpike eventually re-opened early this afternoon, but the damage was already done. At least all of the tourists got to take a nice slow look around our area while crawling along on Useless-One. Stop by for a longer visit next time around. Spend some money in our fine stores. Eat at our wonderful restaurants. It’s good for our economy !

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Travel Weather

Weather In Paradise

Here’s the weather forecast for Homestead Florida for the next 7 days:

Saturday – Partly Sunny, High In The Low-80s
Sunday – Partly Sunny, High In The Low-80s
Monday – Partly Sunny, High In The Low-80s
Tuesday – Partly Sunny, High In The Low-80s
Wednesday – Partly Sunny, High In The Low-80s
Thursday – Partly Sunny, High In The Low-80s
Friday – Partly Sunny, High In The Low-80s

I see a trend developing here.

HOMESTEAD:  OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Directions To Paradise – Take I-95 south until it ends and merges with U.S. 1. Take U.S. 1 south until you reach numbered streets in the lower-300s. WELCOME !

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Travel

Vacation: Deja Vu

This afternoon I got to re-live my recent month full of vacations all over again – all of the stores that I shopped at, all of the restaurants that I ate at, all of the fun things that I did, and all of the good times that I enjoyed in Europe, in the Mediterranean, in the Atlantic, in the Dallas Texas area, and at two South Florida airports – MIA & FLL.

I just looked at my VISA bill for the month !  😎

VISA – ENJOY LIFE’S OPPORTUNITIES

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Travel

Me & The Blimp

This afternoon as I walked out of my workplace building I saw two of my co-workers looking up at the sky. They pointed out the Goodyear Blimp to me. It was hovering perhaps a thousand or less feet directly above our base. I thought that was unusual. Who gave the crew of the blimp permission to check out our base from up above ?

As I drove out of the base and then ultimately southbound on Speedway Boulevard – or as I sometimes refer to it ‘The Homestead-Miami Speedway Expressway’ – the blimp followed me (and beat me). It drifted over to where North Canal Drive meets Speedway Boulevard, turned around, and then flew directly over my car as I approached my right-hand turn onto North Canal Drive.

One of these days I will somehow someway get myself into one of those blimps on a nice leisurely sightseeing trip over this area. I’ve always wanted to do that. Blimps are fascinating to me.