Saint Augustine FL

It is a beautiful city. There are more churches crammed into a small area that I've ever seen anywhere else. But I didn't go into any of them. After all they are just stain glass windows with pews and alters and arches and if you seen one of them you have just about seen them all.

As beautiful as the city is I took not one picture. You would better of buying postcards. That's because it is so crowded at ground level that I felt a good shot was not possible.

There are two tourist trolleys that travers the city. Old Town Trolleys and the Red Train. We got tickets for the Red Train and mistakenly got on the Old Town Trolley. We went almost the entire tour before we were told we were on the wrong one. But the lady who told us said to just continue our ride and get off at the Visitor Information Center and change trolleys. So be it. When we got on the correct train we noticed that even thought we went to the same places the routes were slightly different. Both trips were very good and the drivers were informative and in some cases comical.

The tickets for The Red Train were $16.00 each and the train is sponsored by Ripley's Believe it or Not. The original Ripply museum is in St Augustine. Since we have been to a couple of them before we opt out, The tickets are three day tickets so you have time to ride around, get on and off at any of the stops, wonder around and then hop on again. We decided to ride through the whole think and see were we might want to go at another time.

The following day we took in the Fort at St Augustine. It has changed hands by treaty a couple of time but has never been conquered. For that reason and by treaty it will fly the Spanish flag until 2050

We've continued to have a running fight with the weather and we have not been the winners. The weather was cold and windy the first day and even though we were layered we were not layered enough. I missed my hat to hold some of the heat in my body. The second day was colder and windier. I had my hat and more layers but I shivered the whole ride and the trip into the fort. At least the fort broke some of the wind but the rides are in open trolleys and the only thing that broke that breeze was me

Bouncing on the wooden benches, huddling up my own body to get some warm, I found myself five days later with muscle cramps in my torso that have keep me awake at night. And here we are on Xmas eve and it's raining outside