Take a Load of This, Elche!

First full day in Florida, I got up early to go biking. It was so great to be on a bike again. It was a bright day and I realized after biking for about 45 minutes that I didn't have any sunscreen. So I went into a CVS pharmacy. Florida has a wider variety of sunscreen than we're used to in Seattle, and it took about fifteen minutes to find something that wouldn't be excessively expensive.

I biked for about two full hours, and it felt great the whole time, even though there was a very strong wind coming back, so strong that at times it seemed I was making no progress at all.

On the way, I'd seen something I wanted to show Marjorie, so after a nice lunch at a deli with mom and dad, we went out by ourselves.

This was what I'd seen:




What it was, of course, was thick, forestlike palm trees. The kind of thing we were expecting in Elche, but never saw.

Compare:

This is Florida:



This is Spain:



Which one would you call a "grove" and which one a "forest?"

Take that, Elche!