It appears to have been quite a while since my last vacation.

Although the two months I'm spending in Florida is not a vacation, it's the closest I've come to one in a while so I will post my adventure here.

Some things are a bit of an adjustment like the public art..
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the politics....

and the truck stop snack food offerings...

The University of North Florida is located in a nature preserve in Jacksonville. I'm told that they routinely have to remove 'gaders (never referred to as alligators) from campus. I've started carrying raw chicken in my backpack but so far all I've seen are lots of giant white birds flying low and slow

which makes sense since they are apparently storks. Way to go UNF students!