Our friends from Minneapolis were here for 6 days packed with activities and fun. We got to attend a large YTB meeting in Ft. Lauderdale and meet many other YTB’ers and connect with some of the shakers and bakers in our Southwest Florida area. It’s kind of funny because before we decided to purchase our own YTB travel store, we hit the internet and looked for information about scams, pyramids, and MLM’s, etc. You can find 360′ worth of opinions out there. What I did find was that the positive reviews were from folks actually making it work (and we met several in Ft. Lauderdale who are from the Naples/Ft. Myers area) and the negative charges of scam and pyramid seemed to be from those folks who could never make it work, or from other travel businesses scared to death about loosing business to YTB Reps and RTA’s. The MLM/Network Marketing controversy continues, as it will forever. Anyway, Merry and I have a website with YTB so you can all book your travel here http://merrytimetravel.com
I almost forgot, we went fishing in Marco Island (Caxambas Pass) on Sunday and had a great time. I couldn’t catch anything for about the first two hours and I handed my pole to Daryl so I could go get a bottle of water. Just as soon as I handed him the pole, wham…..he landed a keeper Spanish Mackerel. The fish now started hitting. We landed Sea Trout, Pompano, Sheephead, more Spanish Mackerel, Lady Fish (we threw these back, kind of a small tarpon). Rob, our host for the day, offered to filet the fish and gave us about half of the bounty. We just finished of the last of the fish this past weekend. It’s amazing that fresh saltwater fish have no fishy odor when cooking. We used Jane’s (Rob’s wife) recipe which was simply grind up Ritz crackers in the food processor, add Everglades seasoning, some salt & pepper and bake for about 20 minutes at 375′ or 400′ (I think, but for more specific info you’ll have to ask Merry).
All for now,
Tim
