Cocoa Beach Pier
Day 243
Cocoa Beach, Mid Florida USA
HALLOWEEN!
It's 81 F and rainy here..due to the tropical storm...but we're escaping it and moving away. Hopefully by the time we get to Orlando it'll abate..
It's great having a car..we can please ourselves and stop where we want! And here we are..at Cocoa Beach and only because we stopped to fuel up..and saw the Cocoa Beach Inn next door and decided to make some inquiries within and found it was a reasonable price, breakfast included, so we stayed.
It did say there was free internet but we found that only applies to wireless internet..seems the ol desktop is history here in the US. Everyone has wireless and travels with their laptop! I wish i had one!!!!! If we have time we're going to check out the laptops here as they're so cheap..half the price as in Aussie...in fact everything is cheap here in comparison! Clothes, food, accomodation...everything...
Makes me wonder why everything IS so costly at home! And the tax here is ridiculous...there was an article in the paper this morning saying they want to increase sales tax as that's more acceptable...and leave the income tax as it is..and it's very low in some states, less than 5%! When we look at our 30 and above income tax we can see why it's killing us....From a traveller's point of view, we'd rather they tax income than put extra sales on though..because that's the insidious thing about pricing here...you THINK you're buying something..but then they add sales tax..up to 7.5%! And then there is tipping...which incidently, we've somehow gotten used to and don't resent anymore! The things you become accustomed to!
Anyway...enough about that...
We landed in Cocoa Beach and decided to go and look at the beach...the only thing is we couldn't quite get down to it! There are houses all along the coastline!!!
So we left that one alone..and got pizza (no wonder our clothes are not fitting at the moment..which is scaring us, because we're wondering what will happen in SA when we go to get into our trekking clothes..time for a diet!)
Halloween was a quiet affair here really..we saw some houses dressed up and took pics..but i think Chicago was the place to be on Halloween...
Kate! Can you send me those pics you showed me of your house at Halloween????
We watched scary movies all night though....and scared ourselves witless....
And that was Cocoa Beach!
xx
PS Heard that Elvis is the biggest grossing dead performer....making 50 million a year! Then John Lennon....far out...Elvis and John LIVE! haha
