It's Been Real, USA
Bye Bye Beach I'm winding down now. It's almost time for Swedie to start pressuring me about packing my bags to go to the airport even though we don't leave for seven hours. It's that time for reflection on a great trip. This has been my best trip home since leaving home for the Air Force back in 2000. There was a different element to this trip since we had Bash with us. I know he won't remember this trip, but I enjoyed trying to pass on as much to him as possible about my home and family. I wanted him to want to be held by family members (he didn't, of course). I wanted him to enjoy Busch Gardens (he slept through the Sesame Street part). Oh well. This trip was good on so many levels. I'm so glad we didn't do an east coast marathon like we did last year. There was so little stress this time around. Tampa and Miami and that's it. Perfect! We had the perfect hosts here on the South Florida po...