Tallahassee 2024 Part 2

Food and drink are part of life and seems like our vacation spots revolve around them. Our arrival on a Sunday evening pared down those choices. We found a local brewery, Proof Brewing Company, that also had a food truck as part of their business model.

They had a really nice outside eating & drinking area, ensuring families felt comfortable stopping by with yard games and room for kids to run around.

Local beers were the plan.

Along with fish & chips (Eric) and pork BBQ sliders & fries.

Eric knew that Apalachicola’s Oyster City Brewing had an establishment here and we stopped one afternoon.

My Icelandic sheep made a few appearances. I had the Legacy Lager – a beer that tasted like beer.

Here’s a quick shot of what was on tap.

Eric ordered the Red Right Return – glass on right – a perennial favorite.

One last shot before leaving. Everyone has to have a ‘instamgrammable’ wall nowadays. Okay, I guess it worked. I got a shot and I’m posting it on the internet.

We stayed downtown with plans to walk for dinner. In the past we went to an establishment called Cypress. Alas, it no longer existed. We found another restaurant within walking distance…..

Guess what? Same place – different menu and name but same building. Go figure. Started with some drinks, selecting a pink cocktail for me, a tropical sangria. Delicious!

Eric stuck with iced tea as he was feeling a bit under the weather.

The starter recommended was an excellent choice: pickled veggies amd eggs.

Eric ordered grilled octopus along with a bowl of soup (sorry, no photo).

My filet mignon with a demi-glace was excellent and I had plenty to bring home.

Desserts were a great end to our meal. My selection highlighted glazed bananas and ice cream – an excellent choice. The photo of Eric’s ice cream (2) scoops didn’t make the cut. 🙂

Unfortunately, we cut the trip a few days short. A hurricane had been brewing in the Gulf and looked like it was headed to Central Florida. We needed to prep our house and likely go into work to assist with efforts.

Not knowing what grocery stores or gas stations would be looking like, we gassed up before leaving the city and picked up a few groceries. Stories abounded on social media of shortages in both arenas and we wanted to be prepared. Driving was great – on our side of the road. Only us, some semis hauling supplies and electric companies were headed south.

The governor opened up the far left ’emergency’ lane – crazy – and it was full of drivers.

I looked over once……………..and no vehicles heading north. Oh no. Yep, accidents were seriously delaying the escaping traffic headed north.

So glad we were not on that side of the road.

We made it home safely and prepped for the impending storm. Things like removing potential airborne outside objects, strengthening outside doorways and sand-bagging windows on the house expecting driving rain. One of the biggest challenges……..clearing space in our garage for 2 vehicles! Here’s proof we did it. It wasn’t pretty, but space was found. The guys were waiting on the storm to arrive.

Connor stepped outside for a brief moment, getting soaked in a short minute.

It reached our house at 3:20am. The force of the wind picking up branches, leaves and other debris was nerve-wracking – woke me up. Thanks, hon, for staying up the entire time to keep us safe. 🙂

Did we have any damage? Not directly, but a number of branches were down or broken from the trees we had recently pruned – thank goodness for that.

Plenty of cleanup in the days to follow. Now just waiting for the debris to get picked up.

Saw this post and it seemed fitting – and oh so true. I was talking to the neighbors 7am that morning as we all surveyed the damage in the daylight.

Exciting times are coming with my next series of posts. Heading north again, waaaaaaayyyy north. We will be packing warm clothes. Any thoughts or ideas about our destination? Three of us are going back to one of my favorite spots. Posts will be coming soon.

Ginny