After spending last Tuesday flying with my mother to Florida, and then the next three and a half days with her in and out of the ER and hospital, I bid her a teary farewell and left Delray Beach, Fl. in my rental car. Next stop: St. Petersburg and Spring Hill, Florida to visit my grand parents' grave markers, my deceased cousin's' grave marker, and see my long lost cousin and her husaband. I haven't seen them in 40 years.
I took the back roads of Florida hoping to see lizards. Saw none.
In St. Pete's I hooked up with cousin Jan Johnson Aldrich and her husband Jay who showed me a wonderful time. I bonded with Jan, drew her grandkids, and visited her mother my Aunt Ruth in a nursing home. She compared a childhood photo of me to make sure I was in fact her nephew whom she hadn't seen in 55 years (I apparently changed some).
I'm now in the Tampa Amtrak station waiting to head to New York.
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