Escaping the Blizzard-- Cape Coral, Fl-- Part 1

This is a more detailed account of the guys' trip to Cape Coral, Florida, in the first week of February. We left February 3rd and returned Feb. 8th.

I was sore the whole way down on the plane because of all the shoveling the day before we left thanks to that little thing called the Blizzard of 2011, '11 Blizz, or Groundhog Day Blizzard where the Chicago area got the third-heaviest snowfall in recorded history, just shy of 20 inches.

I'm sure that here in Spring Grove, we had even more than that.

The guys on the trip were all railroad guys taking time away from what buddy Frank calls "pounding spikes" although in their case it's more like "pounding the keyboard" on their computers. Frank has his grand kids believing he really pounds spikes as in days of yore.

The other three were "Pike-Poundin'" Frank, "Canadian" Al, and "Cougar-Hunting" Mark. Al is from Canada and Mark spent every night trying to find or be-found by those female "cougars" in Cape Coral bars.

Then there was me, "Old RoadDog" Don. But, that's another story.

Anxious to get Away from All That Lousy Snow. --RoadDog