to every weak spot in their aging frame.
N. America is particularly susceptible to vagrancies of its winter climate and its freezing
biting ultra cold spells sort out these frail old men and you see them dropping like nine
pins (or ten pins if you’re into the new commercial version of this old and venerated game).
It’s been often said that N. America is not really suitable for habitation from Europe.
Genes of Europeans have been formulated over thousands of years and to transport them
to an entirely alien environment causes problems such as the need for drugs and the over consumption of alcohol. Hence the need at one time to try and curb it by prohibition.
Be that as it may, you are now stuck over there in that cold winter wilderness in the back streets of Indiana or among the spuds of Idaho and wondering if you might hobble outside and get a red nose.
Or perhaps pack up and go to Florida?
I would immediately say to you.. no, no and no again. Florida is not for you. It is of
no interest to normal human beings what-so-ever. Flat as a pancake, it has scenery
only slightly better than the moon and is entirely populated by riffraff, ne’re-do-wells
and broken down old factory workers from the north.
Florida should be left to regain its original purpose as a swamp and become a world
heritage site for wild life (this time for the animal variety).
My wife and I visited Florida a little time ago and stayed at a Best Western in Winter Park Orlando. Nice hotel, nice area. We spent a pleasant afternoon attending a large passing out at a naval facility. We drove east to the space center and west to St Petersburg.
Two weeks spent driving around the State of Florida was ok, just.
So what we do Taylor, left out here on this god-forsaken continent as you might call it?
What you need do friends is what brave men have always done, go west, over the plains
‘till you see those mountains rise. Then cross them and on and on and then you’ll see it…
that proud flag fluttering in the gentle Pacific breeze. California Republic.
This is where you’re meant to be, old friends, and that sun-kissed miss will be there to greet you.
A State with breath taking scenery and peopled by intelligentsia from the world over.
And above all, old chums, you’ll have warmth not only from that great California sun up
there but from the people in this heaven on earth.
Bob Taylor
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