Where They're Going

 Spring breakers aren't headed to Miami Beach.  Instead they're going to New Orleans, New York, and Orlando.  Miami Beach has passed ordinances that make the rules on the beach more strict, with a greater police presence as well.  And Walt Disney says the crowds are so low this week that there is virtually no waiting in some lines with a maximum wait time of 20 minutes.

Okay, so I never really traveled for Spring Break choosing instead to go home.  But Walt Disney World has had these issues before because of an early Easter.  But it seems to me that Spring Break isn't a thing much any longer, but it's relatively early for Spring Break.  

I don't know how much to say about it here, but maybe I'm not the one to write about it, other than reporting on what I've read.  I asked my wife if she ever took a Spring Break trip.  Neither of us ever did.  We were either working or visiting with family.  Neither of us really took a break.  I'm thinking that I can remember that Spring break was for the rich kids who had their fathers' yachts and could afford to travel and wreck havoc on beaches.  

Most kids we knew of that age were like us and never took Spring Breaks as such.  At that time only rich kids could afford the travel and the partying.  Neither of us ran with that crowd.  Most kids we knew simply couldn't afford a Spring Break.  They were like us.  They traveled home or they worked.  At that time, there were the jet setters that could afford the travel expenses and the hotel rooms.  They were the ones with the money.  And there is nothing worse than a bunch of spoiled rich kids that are away from adult supervision.  

And there must be a lot of them.  But these days college kids let their student loans pay for all that stuff.  They just charge it to their bankers having to pay it off after graduation.  I'm sure some college loans buy a lot of things a kid wants while in college, which is why their loans are so hard to pay back after college.  But that gets into an area I'd rather not go this morning.  

I could make many moral judgments aboit college kids and student loans.  But I won't.  Some might say retirees have too much time on their hands.  Well, sometimes I think maybe I do.  There are the kids who work hard and need a break.  It just seems that Spring Break was for the spoiled wealthy and still is.  The problem is that this is how they act and Miami Beach just got fed up with them.  Good for Miami Beach.  New York can handle these kids.  Let them go there, instead.  

It's quiet and peaceful where I am this morning and my wife will tell you how much I hate crowds and being around a lot of people.  I live a very quiet life these days and sometimes maybe too quiet. But my pipes are quiet and I like that they are.  Today it is my Boswell pipe with some Captain Black Cherry tobacco and a cup of hot dark roast coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave