July 10-17, 2004

July 10-17, 2004

We went to the Florida Panhandle with my family again. We have been going down with them every other year. This time we returned to the Grayton Beach area east of Destin. The beach is beautiful, uncrowded, and filled with white talcum powder-like sand. We mostly sat at the beach, soaked up some rays and read a good novel. One day we drive into the nearby town of Seaside. It is a small, cute, and quirky idyllic town with central gazebo, brick paved streets and white picket fences. It is a planned community in the ‘New Urbanism’ style. It looks so much like the Disneyland version of a beach town that it was the perfect spot to film “The Truman Show”. In the movie Jim Carrey doesn’t know he is the main character on the set of a reality TV show. We like the town so much that we return that night for a performance of the play “Proof” at their small repertory theater. It was excellent and the lead actress outstanding.