After another long day on the road we have arrived at our new home for the month in Homestead, Florida.
For those of you who are as geographically challenged as me, here is map putting our location in perspective.
The house we are in is new, and will serve our purpose perfectly. It is on the edge of a 'lake', which could be more accurately described as a large pond. However you can buy this place for $175K. You couldn't even buy the driveway of a house in a similar location in Australia.
The day's travels started with a quick visit over the road to Daytona Raceway. We could hear some cars racing around the track, however with due to various gates and guards we couldn't see a thing.
To balance out my collection of American flags (most of which are in snowy setting) I couldn't help myself and had to take this sunny one :-)
For breakfast we went to 'Waffle House', another of the myriad of fastfood franchises over here. I finally got to see what 'grits' are, as Bob got some so I could try them. Basically it is a porridge made from cornmeal instead of oats. Not at all what I imagined when John Wayne ordered his grits in the various cowboy movies!! I had my first ever American waffle, probably my last too! However I'm over here to experience as well as learn, so I had to do it!
On the way out of Daytona we spotted a large 'Farmers and Flea Market', and stopped in hoping to find some fresh fruit. The market was rather large, and had all sorts of clothes, various trinkets, a very large herbal tea stand, as well as jams and preserves, and fresh fruit and vegies. Very similar to the Australian equivalent - except this one had a large selection of Daytona Bike Week shirts, jackets, hats etc. Remembering Craig is a bit of a petrol head I bought some gifts for him. I saw a really nice feminine one too and so bought one for Janine. I hunted for a nice one in Jordan's size but they only had not so nice ones. So I decided to wait until I found a really nice present for him. I'm sure I will see lots of nice things here in Southern Florida.
We arrived here around 5pm, and after getting our cases in the first job was getting the network set up and online. Took me quite a while as I didn't find AT&T's instructions for setting up the DSL overly successful. However after an hour or so we were all up and going.
I have a nice room here, with my own bathroom right next door.
Bob and Kim have their room upstairs, with 2 more spare bedrooms up there.
As you can see most of the house is tiled, which be nice and cool when the hotter weather comes.
Today we head to another Farmer's Market that we have learned about to stock up on fruit and vegetables, it will be nice to become re-acquainted with real food after being on the road!! I sure am lucky to be with Bob and Kim who know the value of whole foods - another blessing!!
For those of you who are as geographically challenged as me, here is map putting our location in perspective.
The house we are in is new, and will serve our purpose perfectly. It is on the edge of a 'lake', which could be more accurately described as a large pond. However you can buy this place for $175K. You couldn't even buy the driveway of a house in a similar location in Australia.
The day's travels started with a quick visit over the road to Daytona Raceway. We could hear some cars racing around the track, however with due to various gates and guards we couldn't see a thing.
To balance out my collection of American flags (most of which are in snowy setting) I couldn't help myself and had to take this sunny one :-)
For breakfast we went to 'Waffle House', another of the myriad of fastfood franchises over here. I finally got to see what 'grits' are, as Bob got some so I could try them. Basically it is a porridge made from cornmeal instead of oats. Not at all what I imagined when John Wayne ordered his grits in the various cowboy movies!! I had my first ever American waffle, probably my last too! However I'm over here to experience as well as learn, so I had to do it!
On the way out of Daytona we spotted a large 'Farmers and Flea Market', and stopped in hoping to find some fresh fruit. The market was rather large, and had all sorts of clothes, various trinkets, a very large herbal tea stand, as well as jams and preserves, and fresh fruit and vegies. Very similar to the Australian equivalent - except this one had a large selection of Daytona Bike Week shirts, jackets, hats etc. Remembering Craig is a bit of a petrol head I bought some gifts for him. I saw a really nice feminine one too and so bought one for Janine. I hunted for a nice one in Jordan's size but they only had not so nice ones. So I decided to wait until I found a really nice present for him. I'm sure I will see lots of nice things here in Southern Florida.
We arrived here around 5pm, and after getting our cases in the first job was getting the network set up and online. Took me quite a while as I didn't find AT&T's instructions for setting up the DSL overly successful. However after an hour or so we were all up and going.
I have a nice room here, with my own bathroom right next door.
Bob and Kim have their room upstairs, with 2 more spare bedrooms up there.
As you can see most of the house is tiled, which be nice and cool when the hotter weather comes.
Today we head to another Farmer's Market that we have learned about to stock up on fruit and vegetables, it will be nice to become re-acquainted with real food after being on the road!! I sure am lucky to be with Bob and Kim who know the value of whole foods - another blessing!!
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