Hey I love these pics cos I grew up in Naples, which is about thirty miles away. Everglades City once a hotbed of drug importation in the 70s, real Miami Vice stuff. A fun day trip today - all those flat, watery vistas. If you enjoyed that, a drive across old one lane Highway 41, from Naples to Miaimi is also fantastic. About halfway across is the gallery of the famous Ansel Adams of the Everglades, Clyde Butcher, which is worth stopping at. Also loads of airboat rides, Seminole Indian villages, beautiful views across the Everglades, and, on the outskirts of Miami, a fantastic, old fashioned Southern bbq place. Get the ribs. Thanks for the pics.

I need a Cuban sandwhich right now.

It's only rednecks there, they hate Cubans. Hey - Chuck Prophet - do I get a free CD or something for sending you that excellent picture that you did not use on your excellent new CD?

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GIve an address. My pleasure!



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I'll buy that sammitch next time you're in town, Chuck. That's one of the things I missed most when I was living out west - along with a good Greek salad

johneder - I rode 41 all the way to the Miccosukee reservation. Nicer stuff on the back roads that I went on. Went by Clyde's gallery, but didn't stop in - maybe next time. The captain on the boat trip I went on mentioned the drugs connection when we went by the airport - but my main reason for wanting to go there was having read Killing Mr. Watson, by Peter Matthiessen . Great start to a trilogy, and reminders of Florida gone by

"it's got two kinds of pig meat - ham and roast pork

and a slice of white cheese in the shape of new york

so put on a pickle and pick up your fork

say 'el cubano' ...that's a cuban sandwich"

Killing Mr. Watson is a fantastic book - very well researched - a lot of the names of families mentioned are familiar from growing up there, like the Storters. I had a Mrs. Storter for first grade teacher.



In the mid-70s the usually low income fishermen of Everglades City started buying new boats, Cadillacs, building big houses, etc. They were running dope in thru the intercoastal waterway. Eventually the DEA took away their boats.



Chuck P. - don't have yr email address - send to me at john.eder@sbcglobal.net