Love Labelle

Labelle, Florida
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Like Oriental, NC and Urbanna, VA and Vergennes, VT, Labelle, FL is one of our favorite stops. All those places are relatively small and quiet towns with a laid back life style.

Last night we went to Skeet & Sara's Log Cabin BBQ. Wow, it was great. Of course they have great southern BBQ. We had beef, pork, chiken and ribs. It came with some of the best baked beans we ever had, and great cole slaw. I may have to go back, the menu also had meatloaf, chicken and dumplings, peanut butter pie and numerous other scrumptious foods that I haven't eaten in many years. It compares favorably with the Hickory Barn BBQ restaurant in Sugar Land, Texas which IMHO is the best.

Look at their sidewalks. They not only make detours around trees, but they maintain the full sidewalk width for the benefit of pedestrians. Now that's really friendly.

Stuart, FL where we just came from must be the most pedestrian and biker hostile city in America. Labelle must be the friendliest.

By the way, we found another street with a huge live oak tree growing in the middle of the street. The city kindly made road detours around both sides of the tree.

The city dock here is free for up to three days. They give free power and water. They ask boats to come in Mediterranean style (bow in or stern in). An anchor out in the river keeps the boats from swinging sideways. Without extra pilings, I hate that style of docking. If a strong wind blew from the wrong direction, the anchor line would stretch and push the boats right onto the dock. Oh well, hard to complain about free docks.

We found a delightful nature park here. The foliage is so lush, but like most southern forests, so very very dry.

While Libby gathers pine needles, Dick tests the park facilities.