Long Drive on Alligator Alley
I finally made it to the Hampton Inn and Embassy Suites in Fort Myers were we were staying for the night before conference. It is the worst drive. It is about 2 hours of driving in the valley of “nowhere”. It is known as Alligator Alley because it is the everglades, but there is nothing around there. If you don’t have enough gas before you enter on 75 in Weston you will end up breaking down. Once I got to the hotel I met with 3 other people on the Stateboard of Directors. We were waiting on our Director and Associate Director of Finance, but neither of them were answering their phones or text messages (probably because they knew they were late). We planned out the agenda for the meeting tomorrow and discussed what we were going to be talking about. We were finished befoere 7pm and the other 2 were still not here. Will called them again and eventually they picked up. At this point I was starving. I hadn’t eaten since lunch at 12. We were all very upset with them, but our Advisor, Larry, became even more made when they came in and didn’t even appologize. Larry had to ask them to appologize. Early is on time. On time is late. Late is not exceptable.
Filed under: Travel on September 28th, 2007
The end of your blog reminds me of something a dear friend of mine often says: “If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late. If you’re late, don’t even bother showing up.”
….You think he’s trying to tell me something?
On another note, Alligator Alley…
I used to hate this drive, too. My family lives in Fort Myers so I’m often traveling from Boca to the west coast.
One of the reasons that road is called Alligator Alley, in addition to simply being in the middle of the Everglades, which it is, is that often alligators would be sunning on the side of the road. Sometimes you can still see the alligators hanging out. The fences have improved over the years, though, and I haven’t seen an alligator on the side of the road (outside of the water) in awhile.
It can be a tedious drive since there isn’t much to look at, but every now and again there’s some charm to the nature that surrounds the road.
(PS: If you need something to do while you’re in Fort Myers, let me know! That’s my hometown!)