Bruce's Travels

 By Bruce Shawkey This is Lacy ... .... our most excellent tour guide at the Gold Rush Brewery "You can have ALL the beer you want." This was part of our Alaska cruise. We were told on our tour tickets we were limited to two beers, but Lacy told us otherwise. We had a buffet lunch as well, and as I recall we had chicken legs as our meat entree. Lacy told us she moved to Alaska with her boyfriend, but he couldn't stand it and moved back to the lower 48. "Turned out I was the one with the balls," Lacy told us. She was a hoot.

 I am putting together this blog entry in 2024, by memory as best I can recall it. I had it in blog form, but foolishly erased it after getting complaints  from the folks back home it was taking too long to load. It was my first winter getaway following Gwen's death in 2009, so I really want to get something down before my memory faded all together. I did not bring my kitties with me this trip; Dawn was kind enough to look after them. This was all about Orlando; the thought of spending winter in Fort Myers hadn't occurred to me yet. I started out in Kissimee at a cheap motel (I think it was a Motel 6) because I wanted to be close to all the Disney Parks, and reasonably close to the mid-winter NAWCC Regional. I paid for the room by the week to save a little money and was able to get a room with a 'fridge and a microwave oven.  One of the restaurants I remember during my time here was Tarentino's, an Italian place in Kissimee. They had a cute hostess named Leilani (or som...