A Room with a View

The new digs. No, the building is not listing to the left. It's not the Leaning Tower of Pisa either. Just trying to angle the camera to capture our condo. Alas, failure! The unit's around on the other side anyway...........and thirteen stories up. How lucky is that? I know you're counting the windows.........and, no, the thirteenth floor is not visible; but take my word for it, it's up there. Thirteen out of 27..........right over the Caloosahatchee River. Trust me.........plenty high enough.

Almost ground level, looking out over the swimming pool. Cloudy and windy, but the pool is heated. It's Florida..........nobody comes here to be too cold.

This is the view from the guest room in the condo although it could also be the view from any of the other rooms. That small dot over by the bridge is a sailboat. We're on the river, but with some of the same amenities as being on the gulf........there's a dolphin which comes fishing along the sea wall, and the pelicans flock after the boats that are checking their crab traps. There's no sand, but the palm trees are beautifully tropical, and they are everywhere. After all, Fort Myers is known as the city of palms.

Also on the river and just down the street from us are the winter homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford (on our list of must-sees although we ogle their estates when we drive by on our way to the beach). Obviously, we're not the only ones who chose not to spend the winter in AA.