Carrabelle is Great

Today is Tuesday, March 20th, the first day of Spring and it is Spring in Carrabelle. Getting to know the places we visit is part of the fun of doing the Loop.  In between doing chores on Lifestyle II, we visit the local spots.  Here at Carrabelle that can be accomplished in about an hour.  Well it would seem that way since it only has one grocery, a couple of restaurants and no real retail community.  Today we visited the other restaurant.  It is at the other marina, the Moorings.  No connection to the world wide charter business with the same name.  The sign out front said "Carrabelles best breakfast".  We found that the Mayor and the Sheriff have breakfast there on most days.  The mayor was still there.  We talked, well he talked we tried to talk but he is a little hard of hearing and so it was best just to listen.  We did find out that he had lived in Green County, Tennessee, above Knoxville.  He is now on his sixth four year term.  He must be well liked or either they can't find anyone else to work for such little pay. I told him we loved Carrabelle and after traveling all over we decided that Carrabelle was the perfect city.  It has one road in, one road out.  It does not have a Wall-Mart or a traffic light. They have a downtown revitalization program that is coasting over $200,000. and consist of replacing the sidewalk for one block. He was real proud of the project. I asked him about not having a stoplight and he said they had one at one time but it caused too many accidents and had to take it down. Malinda served us breakfast and it was maybe the best we have had. By the time we were finished it was close to 10AM and the mayor said he needed to go to the office.  At least he has the right work ethic for the job.