April 3, Day 30, Sunday, Port Richey to Mount Dora

We attended mass at St. Michael the Archangel.

What an immense church. It is a round church with the main church on one half the round building, the other half is not as deep (the one you see here) but directly behind the main alter (the big structure behind the little one with the windows which are stained glass). Again looks like over a thousand attend one mass.

As in Europe and big cities, art and design can be found in church's.

Police direct traffic before and after masses, two squads. Well on a scale of 0 to 10 a weak 4. I will say, he said something I would agree with, the priest is a guide. I feel attending guides me into trying to be/do better with people, places and things. Enough.

We head to central Florida for a drive through the heartland. Many cattle in pasture settings, horse’s in nice looking farm yards. There is some evidence of the wind damage of earlier thus week, a number of trees were blown over, not many but you see some long the way. You barely think you are in Florida.

A couple thoughts. It is quite noticeable in the transportation vehicles of people from deep southern Florida Marco/Sanibel with their sporty cars and SUV’s, to Venice where you have standard vehicles and a couple pickup’s, to this area with small cars, vans and big pickup’s; stratifying of the monies. In each area, people are in a hurry. Followed a C6 silver Vette for a while around Disney, he was between 85 and 90, I backed down to 70 and got passed by most.

It was said that the people from the Chicago area winter on the gulf side and the New Yorkers on the Atlantic side. Wonder if there is any statistics on this? Surprising, today we saw four cars with license plates from Nova Scotia in the church parking lot.

We stopped at Logan’s Roadhouse for late afternoon lunch/dinner. A couple beers for us to wet the thirst. A bucket of peanuts are on each table and a basket of warm yeast rolls.  Shirleen jumped in with a big burger with tomato, lettuce, bacon and onions on it with chips; I found two thin pork chops, really tasty, with brewski onions Michelob AmberBock beer-braised onions, with a sweet potato.

Tomorrow we stop by Mary Ann and Steve’s to pick up my shirt and pants I left there a month ago. jerr