{"id":374,"date":"2019-12-05T20:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embracejourney.home.blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2019-12-05T20:35:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:35:56","slug":"gulf-shores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embracethejourney.online\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Shores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, its been a while………………….I am still here, promise!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have been in Gulf Shores, AL for almost a week now and we will be here until Tuesday. Here are my random thoughts on Gulf Shores so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Water is everywhere.<\/li>
  2. Military jets sound like they are going to come through the condo windows Monday through Friday beginning at 8am central time. It doesn’t last all day, but it happens.<\/li>
  3. No one is here right now………NO ONE!<\/li>
  4. #3 is one of my favorite things about being here!<\/li>
  5. I can walk the beach and see less than 5 people the entire walk. Sometimes those 5 people are construction workers building beach houses.<\/li>
  6. We may be the only people in the condo complex that are less than 65 years old. This same thing happened when we were on Edisto Island, SC. <\/li>
  7. I get weird looks at the pool….I can see the older residents trying to figure out why I am here. They refuse to ask me and they also don’t invite me to join their conversations. It is kind of a game I play now, how long can I be in the same place as them without them talking to me beyond saying hi \ud83d\ude42<\/li>
  8. The older residents talk loud so if you eavesdrop, you find out the names of good restaurants!<\/li>
  9. Oil rigs. I can count 10 on a clear day.<\/li>
  10. I had a Forrest Gump moment yesterday when going for my walk. There was a shrimpin boat out in the gulf. <\/li>
  11. Commercial. It is very commercial here.<\/li>
  12. We can be in Florida in 25 miles or 35 minutes.<\/li>
  13. Everyday since Monday there have been 4 jets flying in formation over the gulf practicing. Today there were military helicopters too.<\/li>
  14. Lots of restaurants close here from Thanksgiving through Christmas. Most other places have shortened off season hours.<\/li>
  15. It is not my favorite place we have been, but it is very nice. This actually makes me pretty happy. I had a fear that I would fall in love with everywhere we visited, and now I know that won’t happen.<\/li>
  16. There is a Christmas parade here tomorrow and I am making Jerry go if it doesn’t rain. <\/li>
  17. Currently, Jerry is on the deck doing a rain dance….<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    More Later, NB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So, its been a while………………….I am still here, promise! We have been in Gulf Shores, AL for almost a week now and we will be here until Tuesday. Here are my random thoughts on Gulf Shores so far: Water is everywhere. Military jets sound like they are going to come through the condo windows Monday … Gulf Shores<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embracethejourney.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embracethejourney.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embracethejourney.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracethejourney.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracethejourney.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracethejourney.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embracethejourney.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracethejourney.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embracethejourney.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}