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Seasonal residents of South Florida are often called Snow Birds. Many of them have their cars shipped down by trailer during the winter months. You can see them in the front of many developments unloading. Now, it's time for them to return to the North and the car carriers are again back to transport vehicles to the North.
For them, the season is now over. Florida is too hot and humid. If they hail from Canada, it's my knowledge their stay is limited to 6 months. After, they have to declare their income to the IRS and be taxed on their earnings. So, their limit is 6 months.
As I drove out of my community today, I see about 30% of the parking spaces are empty. I know the neighbor on one side of me is from New Jersey and her unit is dark at night. See you when you return.
In the news today another resident of Florida is relocating to the North for the summer. It's reported former president Donald Trump left Mar-a-Lago and headed to New Jersey. Where he will be staying at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course.

Bedminster will become the new go-to spot for the GOP as many political hopefuls had flocked to Mar-a-Lago holding or attending fundraisers to get time with Trump and possibly get an endorsement.

When winter returns, so will the snow birds!

Lets makes this world the most beautiful place on earth There is enough sunshine for all of us. Everyone can enjoy the sunshine and life to the highest level.
Regards

I saw a guy on a motorcycle with his dog yesterday. Unusual, but funny. The dog appeared to be comfortable with this position as a secure rider, complete with sunglasses.

A horrible story about a 31-year old Dutch man on vacation in Spain decides to do a cliff diving stunt while his wife captures the video event in a nearby boat.
This happens at the Malgrats Islands on Thursday afternoon. The man strikes the side of the cliff on the way down that renders him unconscious where he drowns. Autopsy reveals he suffered a broken hip and arm.
Sadly the wife and son both witnessed the event.


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In your place and or travels if any, are there some experiences you want to share? Good as well as bad perhaps?

I have been to places quite a bit and there are places that are worth remembering, the people, culture and general attitude in life

I am inviting anyone to share their thoughts about their place, and or places you've been and what struck you most.

This world is so huge and so diverse and I wish I can see all of those I'd wish to see before I die. I am hoping.

Note: www can of course provide any information if one wants to visit a place, that's not my point. Jaavisst mentioned about him living in Florida and visited both Nevada and California and quite disliked New York. I'm inspired by his thoughts to create a blog where we can all share our experiences.

Thanks all for reading and or participating if interested.

My pictures from travelling to different countries.
Finland Helsinki


Estonia Tallin


Russia St:Petersburg


Small lake close to Ladoga Karelia Russia

Unbelievable long cobble road leading to Lake Ladoga

Astrakhan Kremlin Russia

Bay of Fundy Canada

Arctic Char caught by me in Canada.

Ljusdal Sweden today 2022-04-04 view from my window towards river.

Local ski resort Järvsö, Ljusdal in summer.

From Tiger ZOO in Kålmården Sweden.

Just watch from minute 8:40 to 9:48... Absolutely breathtaking!...

That's just one of the reasons why almost every visitor wants to stay here forever...

The tallest/highest waterfall in the world... 979 mts... OURS... I can't love this blessed land more than I already do...

Venezuela... My country... My home... My love... I love you, Venezuela!...

I checked online weather at the local TV station and their top story was the demand for COVID testing exceeds the supply for tests.

There is a testing site less than a mile from me at a county park. I've noticed all week a single file line backed up about 2-1/2 miles. That's got to be a wait of 4 or 5 hours to get to the front. Many of the county sites have run out of test kits and forced to turn (angry) people away.

After that news clip played, they switched to a story about distress on the open seas as several cruise ships have reported multiple cases of COVID and being denied access to ports they were scheduled to visit.

Obviously, people are thinking the pandemic is nearly over and it's okay to return to a normal life.

Pet Peeves? I've got a few (dozen) and I'm sure you do too...
Top of my list this month relates to driving and aggressive drivers because the world doesn't have enough.

There was a time when we only had red and green lights. I was probably a kid when they added a yellow light to let drivers know the red light was only a few seconds away. The timing on the yellow varies depending on the length of the intersection and it allows drivers ample time to get through safely before the light turns red.

What's worse is the multi-lane left turn where they have an arrow (or arrows) and typically when the lights turn red, on coming traffic has the go-ahead. That doesn't stop 5 or 6 cars from pushing through their left turn on a red light, forcing oncoming traffic to wait.

Please, Department of Transportation, deputize me and set me up at a busy corner with full ticket recording video machines (and a full length bullet proof body suit) to catch offenders at an average of 5 for every 4 minutes it takes for the lights to cycle.

I'll work for commission. Tickets for running a red light are $75 and and 10% seems fair. That calculates to 48 tickets per hour or $360 per hour. I'll show up on rush hour morning and night 5 days a week. That's enough to quit my day job!

I haven't seen a driver's handbook in a few years, but a car approaching an intersection to make a left turn, is to remain stopped until they can safely complete the turn. You can be ticketed for crawling out and stopping diagonally along the median waiting for the other side to clear. While everyone does this, they've been doing it for years as though it's correct. The same thing goes for a right turn on red. They leave out a small detail of AFTER FULL STOP.

U-Turn yield to right turn. I was making a right (with a right turn arrow) and had to brake or a driver making a U-Turn would have hit me. Yeah... the sign (he ignored) was clearly there.
That's probably the same skill-set for the people who make U-Turns on a red light.

The most irritating and dangerous is 'charging the intersection' aka anticipation turns. Back to the 6 lane road with turn lanes and wide median. You're driving along in the outside lane, no one behind you. A driver from oncoming traffic wants to make a U-Turn (or left turn) and starts his turn BEFORE you reach his car. That means he's already 110 degrees into a 180 turn. If someone in front of you shows down and you hit the brakes, the driver making the synchronized U-Turn has a good chance of hitting your rear side.
I was in the middle lane when someone made a wide right turn into my lane at the same time another car was charging the intersection. Anticipation of a disaster, I leaned on the horn and both drivers realizing their stupidity, cut back avoiding a 3-car collision.

That should qualify my pet peeves for the month of December. Stay tuned there could be a cameo later in the month.