-=> On 01-20-18  23:30,  Dale Shipp <=-
 -=> spoke to All about Trip <=-

 DS> Gail and I are leaving Sunday Morning (21 Jan) for a coach tour in
 DS> Florida.  Starts and ends in Ft. Myers (a bit south of Sarasota),
 DS> stops in or neat the Everglades and then on down to Key West before
 DS> returning to Ft. Myers on Saturday, Jan 27.

We are back and I am slowly getting caught up on the echo.  Nice weather
-- high temps in the mid 70s versus 50s here in Maryland.  We had a
number of interesting stops:  A 2000 acre truck farm which grew beans,
squash and grape tomatoes; a fruit stand with a demo / tasting of a
variety of tropical fruits (first ever taste of passion fruit and dragon
fruit); an orchid farm; and several places with lots of alligators.  The
interesting thing about the gators is that when I grew up in Florida, we
never saw a gator.  Now they are quite abundant.

 DS> We will be pretty much out of touch until we return.

And of course, my BBS mailing system went sideways for the entire
period.  The BBS ran fine, but my email program which sends out QWK
packets froze because of an error in accepting a new security
certificate (common problem with Eudora).  I had to go in and manually
tell the certificant manager to install the updated certificate and then
push out the stacked up QWK packets to users.

I'm still a week behind on reading the mail, but will catch up soon.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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