Tallahassee Florida

Saturday May 19, 2018

My masters and I loaded up and hit the road a little before 10. We stayed in Prattville northwest of Montgomery so we jump on I65 South, cross the Alabama River then head east on I85. My master plays Bonnie Raitt's Angel from Montgomery as we drive through the city. We exit onto US231 headed south which takes us all the way to I10 in the Florida panhandle. We stopped at the Florida Visitors Center after crossing the state line. I am glad to be back in our home state! My masters took a commemorative picture with this dolphin statue. Guess they are glad to be back in Florida too. We cross over into the Eastern time zone. We finally give back that hour we borrowed 35 days ago.

We are staying in Tallahassee tonight. There is a Frank Lloyd Wright house there my master wants to see. It is the George Lewis House built in 1954. It is also called the Spring House. It is one of the few houses in Frank Lloyd Wright's hemicycle series. This style is one of the last and shortest of his career. It is characterized by a series of circles and semicircles. The picture below is from Wikipedia (taken by Swcopeland, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license). In 2014 it was listed as one of America's 11 most endangered historic places according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The goal of the list is to raise awareness and spur interest in preserving threatened sites. The Spring House Institute was formed to try and save the house. They offer free tours on the second Sunday of the month or you can make arrangements, and pay, for a personal tour. 

We drive right to the house. It is off the same interstate exit as our hotel. The driveways are blocked off and it is so wooded you can barely see the house. My master tries to get some pictures. Even though she couldn't see much, Karen appreciates that Bob took her here. Now we can go on to the hotel.

We checked in about 3pm. Soon my masters leave to try and see the Florida State Capital building and have an early dinner. They follow the route from Apple maps and it leads to the official entrance which of course they can't go in. They drive around the block and see the domed building. Bob has to do a U turn to drive where Karen can get a picture. They had dinner at the Midtown Caboose. Good Eats. Some of the streets in Tallahassee are as my master imagined, old homes and moss filled trees, very Suwannee River.

We have a quiet night after my masters return. I for one as glad this is the last night in a hotel. I can't wait to get back in my own bed in my big air conditioned dog house. Gerry gave me this patch. Argh.