Coffee with a Conspirator

[L Verge]

I agree that the alligator tail was very good, but I agree with Herb that it was more like chicken. I was introduced to it (as were Betty, Joan, and Louise) in a very nice restaurant in Tampa when treated to dinner by Powell family members.

Betty's book on Powell had just been released, and she was invited to Ft. Myers for a speaking engagement. Of course, the other three of us could not let her make the trek alone! We went down to Sanford on the AutoTrain, visited with Lewis's mother (in the cemetery) and then trekked across to Ft. Myers and Tampa. We then drove back across the state to St. Augustine and back home.

What a trip it was. Some day you can ply me with Jack and Gingers, and I will tell you about our escapades. Some are really funny. One was especially scary. Ask Betty about having to dive to the floor of the back seat and entering a cemetery after dark with a pick-up truck of yokels tailing us. Then there's the story of the March storm with freezing rain and winds in St. Augustine.

There were about 6-7 of us ladies who did lots of history traveling back in the 1970s and 80s, and we could always count on some disaster happening whenever we took a trip. It became the standard joke.