Do you know where the Everglades start? Lake Okeechobee? Alligator Alley? Naples? Nope, nope and nope. Try SeaWorld. If you follow the water north, you'll find the headwaters of the Everglades — at least, what remains of them — at Shingle Creek.
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Backroads of Paradise in the New York Times
Welp, they don't seem to care much for Donald Trump, but the New York Times likes me.
A weeks ago, I'd shut down email for the day, except — fun fact — I'm almost always trying to clear out my email. Over at Creative Loafing, our food editor and one of my favorite people, Meaghan, always has about three or four emails in her inbox. She's that good at clearing them out. Right now, I have roughly seventy-seven million emails waiting for me, so I feel compelled to check them from time to time, even when I'm theoretically done for the day.
So, the de facto in-laws are down for the holidays, and as we're all watching football I start looking for easy emails to handle. I see one from a John Dorman, who says he's with the Times and would like to do a Q&A with me. Now, we have a daily paper here...
In Search of the Skunk Ape
I went looking for the Skunk Ape in the Everglades. Here's what I found overnight in a backwoods cabin inside Big Cypress.