Nights like this...

... make me understand why so many people pack all their belongings in their car and head for Florida.

The Gulf breezes, the beautiful panorama and the general sense of ease, like everyone is chilling on their screened-in lanais, sipping on a Corona with a lime and taking it all in. Very slowly.

On a purely aesthetic level, I haven't lived anywhere near as appealing as the Tampa Bay area. During my parents' winter visit here, my mother called it "paradise."

But, damn, I'm really tired of all these lizards.