This photo is from the last day of our last FUN trip to Crazy Old Florida. We stayed at the Sea Club 1, which is on the Gulf of Mexico beach on Long Boat Key. It was April 2017.

The Sea Club was perfect for us. A renovated retro motel with a small but fully equipped kitchen. And we were right on the beach. When we left the Sea Club our last morning there, I posted this pic with the caption, “So long Gulf of Mexico. Seeya in the next episode.” We both wanted to go the Sea Club again but our trips to Florida after that were either end-of-life or rescue missions.

I love Florida but after I’ve been there for about a week, the Great Lake State pulls me back up north.

Gulf of America? Fer kee-reist! Who the hell is stoopid enough to propose re-naming a gulf that has been called one thing (Gulf of Mexico) for I dunno how many years (500, I think) to something else. No, it isn’t the Gulf of America and also America is not really our country’s name, only part of it. North America and South America are named after Amerigo Vespucci, who I learned about in 4th grade. Mrs. Scott must’ve been a good teacher because I am not good at history but I still remember learning about those explorers. Should we have renamed the indigenous people’s territory? And why are these tech billioniare assholes going along with this? I dunno but not sure I have the bandwidth to talk about that tonight.

Except that there’s no reason we can’t be USA patriots without renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

We have been threatened with significant snow tonight on the Planet Ann Arbor and it seems like it’s finally arriving. I was working in the kitchen and smelled smoke but the faaarplace was going so I wasn’t really thinking about the smoke alarm. Until it went off. Jeebus. Oh, I was playing around with the flue, said the GG. Okay. Don’t do that again. But love you anyway.

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