1 March 2026 Sanford: Getting Settled Just North of Orlando, in Sanford FL

 

We are staying with Leslie's sister Laura.  Her house is delightful and we did many first day activities.  Washing clothes, unpacking, heading to the store, walking Macy through the neighborhood and the like.  The area is fairly rural and so there is ample tree cover and good bird habitat.  I saw few new birds the very first morning!

When we walk Macy, there is a lake at the end of the road by the mailboxes

A robin

Cardinal

This is a yellow-rumped warbler. life bird #1 for the day

The Spanish moss is thick

A ruby-crowned Kinglet lifebird #2

Pickle juice in quantities we can not fathom

Macy is worn out already with so much excitement

 It was been 3 years and 269 days since we began our Migration

28 Februrary 2026 Hollywood to Orlando: A Bright Idea, Lets Take the Brightline

 

We got up, had some breakfast, cleaned up the place and drove to Miami. We gassed up the car and returned it then we took a cab to the Brightline station.  The cab was more expensive than the Uber but we did not know where to catch the Uber, while the cab was sitting there waiting for us.  The Brightline station is still very new and it had some nice decorative touches.  We got some lunch and waited for our departure time.  We paid to check in bags as we had flashbacks of the struggles for baggage in France and Italy.  As it turned out that was not a problem as there was ample space for bags, lesson learned.  The train ride was smooth in the new cars and even though we drove through a few rain squalls we could still see lots of Florida out of the windows.

Huge construction work

The Arsht Center

This may be for the trucking tunnel over to the port

Freedom Tower

The interior of the terminal building

Looking down to where we were dropped off by the taxi

Standard message boards for the few trains departing

Train themed art

A miniature office 

Bright sun heading out of the terminal

Not many fellow passengers

An uncooperative photographic subject

We pass the Miami people mover 

The baseball stadium

No crossing mishaps!

The ubiquitous graffiti 

Painted buildings

A lively scene 

Moving from an urban setting

Past Hollywood's airport

To the Indian River

With all things related to boats

To the large terminus in Orlando

Miss Macy celebrates our arrival with a celebratory cigar

 It was been 3 years and 268 days since we began our Migration

27 February 2026 Hollywood: The Wine Club Reunion at the Tiki Tiki

 

We are heading up to Orlando in the morning and since there were so many folks from Wine Club and Book Club still to see we booked part of the Tiki Tiki to  gather them all together into one place.  We got there at 2:30 to make sure everything was in place and ready for us.  Indeed it was ready and it was ready early as well so as soon as folks arrived we settled into the new party corner.  We had between 15 and 20 folks show up and the good times were remembered, re-lived and experienced once again.  Thanks to all the folks who came out.

The water taxi drives on by

Marty is the first on the scene

Lou is second

Paul 

JeanAnn

Monica and her sister

Let the festivities begin

The party has arrived!  Linda and Maggie

Nancy

Big hugs

Dan putting on a pretty face

We had the corner of the Tiki Tiki restaurant reserved for us

Lou!  We saw you in Nice France 6 months ago!

A bit of book club thrown in

Nancy helped set this up

Kim G!  Is in the house

Ken too!

The Lees show up with grandbaby in tow

All smiles

Old time beach pictures

My how fashions have changed

We are filling in the area nicely

Smile!

A magnifying glass would help in seeing everyone

The bar is packed and we are off

A nice sunset to send us off

Good night Hollywood!

 It was been 3 years and 267 days since we began our Migration