Paulyanna by Paul Douglas Lovell

Author:Paul Douglas Lovell [Lovell, Paul Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: amazon.com
Publisher: Paul Douglas Lovell
Published: 2013-09-24T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23 Florida

I had been seeing Andrew a while and had asked him not to step foot in the Carpenters. I didn’t need the hassle of explaining who the man with the flash car was. He shocked me once by parking directly outside and popping in for a drink when I was working one Saturday afternoon. Nobody noticed me quickly usher him back out and send him off with a flea in his ear. He was aware of my situation and knew better than to encroach on this part of my personal life. I knew he wouldn’t have appreciated it if I’d suddenly popped up around his workplace. Besides Richard, nobody knew I had a fancy man, as we sometimes liked to call them.

Andrew asked if I wanted to go away with him for ten days. He was jetting off to sunny Florida. As Russell and Tom were going to Amsterdam for a long weekend I thought it was the perfect way to illustrate to the crony onlookers that I was having an excellent time of it too. So of course I accepted. Funny thing was I forgot to broadcast my plans around the bar.

Andrew had suggested we go halves on the holiday expenses and I agreed. He picked me up at 114. We drove to the airport and he left his motor in the departures car-park. We flew off and landed at Orlando International Airport over nine hours later. In the near distance palm trees shimmered in the tropical heat. However, I shivered under a chilly air-conditioned environment waiting on our luggage. Outside it was certainly hotter and also a lot more humid in comparison to the West Coast. I could smell water on the air but not the ocean; this wasn’t like a Blackpool whiff of cold wet rocks with a touch of barnacles. It was less bracing and more encasing, it was musky and warm. It was the scent of the Everglades.

We leased a vehicle. I was given the choice and I preferred the look of a two-door white convertible. Andrew obliged my wish and we were off. With the audio system blasting Bomb the Bass ‘Winter in July’, we cruised towards the highway with the top down. Off to nowhere in particular. It felt fantastic to be back in America and driving through such immenseness, to daydream and gaze out across vast amounts of open sky and space broken only by white fluffy clouds and the occasional manmade structure. It was the perfect place to rest the thoughts of a city person.

The lack of mass European-style urbanisation and architecture made the structural scenery I did pass by appear somewhat flimsy and makeshift. Signposts were randomly dotted around, advertising hundreds of holiday things to do. The hospitality industry really knows how to service visitors to Florida.

The first thing I wanted to do was visit Disney World. I once posted off a coupon from the newspaper to win a dream vacation for the whole family. The competition entry date didn’t expire until the following year.

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