Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Gainesville, Florida

My initial "final" destination has been reached! It's been so very nice to reconnect with my brother Brian! He's got a nice house here in Gainesville, and he's been so very hospitable to his old and boring brother!

Florida is MY kind of place! Forget about the women, (altho I think they are here somewhere!), the weather in just plain gorgeous! I see on my Grand Rapids weather link 29F right now! In Gainesville right now it's a cool 69 (truly cool for this time of year!)! Sure, it does get hot (Lagos hot) in the summer time - actually, come to think of it, it's probably hotter and possibly even more humid! Lagos is always right around the same temperature - year round! 89 -93. This area gets up to the upper 90's, and they are surrounded on BOTH sides by ocean. Yep, it's hot and humid here!

I've started looking for a job in this area. So far, no luck, but I don't expect to find anything right away! I have dropped off resumes and filled out applications where I can and in places that interest me. Gainesville is smaller than I anticipated (95,000). But boy does their weather appeal to me! In the end, I will probably be stuck in Michigan, but I can always dream now that I have that chance, can't I? I certainly do hope that I can relocate to this area! Give me hot weather any day!

Oh, and the SAND is so WHITE along the Gulf Coast! Brian and I went fishing there a week or so ago. Fishing sucked (or the fishermen), but the sand was amazing! So white and very fine! It could be mistaken for salt if you set it on your table! Incredible! Since I have not caught any fish yet, I guess I DO have a reason to come back here! :)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can't go to Florida with fishing as poor as that :-(. Michigan has better fishing, no? White sand, huh? I didn't know that. Must be striking. Glad and thankful your trip has gone so well. Dad

Anonymous said...

Looks like you put a few miles on that new car and found a place that agrees with you. Your trip must have been a bit of a crash course on what the good old US of A is all about and probably an eye opener with good and bad and encounters/experiences. Glad you had a safe trip - keep fishing.
Greetings to Brian.