Driving to Florida and back

 Left Dec. 20 with a friend and her niece's dog. Took 21 hours to get there. Stayed at an Airbnb on Ana Maria island til Dec. 30. Walked the beach every day. 

This was the beach view from our balcony on Christmas day, a type of white.

 Then went to a friend in Zephyerhills,FL. In Florida, in Pasco county I was trying to get Sherry's mother set up, at 2 and 3 pm they would open registration online for the next day 2 and 3pm shots. Only once was I able to actually get the register button active at the appointed hour, clicked on it and brought up the next page which said vaccinations were full, try again. The next day they shut off registration because they ran out of vaccine. They don't take phone calls to get registered so all those elderly that don't have a youngster doing the legwork are screwed.

Not quite warm enough to do our daily 5pm wine or sake rituals outside. 

Drive home was alone, Jan. 9; 9:30 am start, arrived 6:30am. 21 hours later, last hour was hard, had 7 of these Starbuck doubleshot espressos, the eighth got lost in the back seat. Dammed hard finding hard rock on radio in the middle of the night, mainly religious or country. My neck got quite sore 20 hours in. When I got home my left knee was hurting a lot, probably from lack of lubrication via walking during the drive. A friends DMSO application helped the next day.