Good golly, I had to take a Taxi yesterday to get from an airport to a hotel.  $20.00.  Gone.  Yikes!  I think we drove several miles.  But I’m not sure, I just watched the meter and enjoyed every inch of pavement that I could.  Which in case you’ve not been in a car before, is not really a high-pleasure experience.  I’d like to thank the taxi driver for the fine Cubanisimo music his iPod was playing.  It really gave me great pleasure to enjoy the latin grooves that the whole ensemble was playing.  There is nothing quite as refreshing as a latin groove in exepensive transportation.  Four out of Five dentists polled recommended it to their patients.

So after paying the fine man for driving me a distance and then being fare about it, I met up with a colleague, walked to a somewhat nearby eating establishment and then nearly bled from my eyes when the bill for a hot dog and a soda came to just under $12.00.  For that price I could almost get to the airport!  Fortunately the food gave me sustenance enough to maintain me for long enough to make it to dinner where someone else was paying.  But seriously?!  $12.00?  It wasn’t even a big cup!

And thus, as I leave off here I want to make this one reccomendation: never leave your homes, and by all means never travel.  Traveling is expensive and there isn’t much good that comes from it except that you can see new places and have new experiences in life.  But that’s over-rated.  You can have new experiences by eating dirt and trying new food.  Oh, and if someone else takes you out to Del Frisco’s I LOVED their crab cake and I LOVED their potatoes aug gratin.  I hesitate to call any food perfect, but I don’t hesitate to call these perfect, they were that good.