I just got back from paradise – at least, about as close to paradise as we're going to get on this earth.
I took a weekend road trip to Palmetto, Fla., about an hour south of Tampa. Palmetto and the nearby city of Bradenton are nice – permeated by the laid-back atmosphere that characterizes Florida to me; but paradise was in Nana and Granddad's yard.
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