Lake Worth

I had to go to Palm Beach County for work. Again. Of course, I had to make the most of it.

Lake Worth is an old haunt of mine.

I first started working in South Florida on Jan 3, 2005. Damn. The first day in town I went to the Orange Bowl where USC destroyed OU. Ha. Ha. OU sucks.

When I first stayed in Palm Beach, I stayed at the Fairfield Inn and Suites Palm Beach. Yeah. "Palm Beach" is a little misleading. Yes, it's on the island. Yes, it's in Palm Beach. If I'd booked this place thinking it was in Palm Beach??? I'd be a little pissed.

Now, I liked this place, so don't get me wrong. On the intracoastal, one of the thinnest parts of the island, right across from the Lake Worth Pier/Casino Park/Beach. Casino isn't near as cool as it sounds. Used to be.

So, it's pretty much Lake Worth.

But, I love Lake Worth. It can be a bit sketchy at times. Nothing that worries me, though.

The downtown area is great. I used to go to Ray's Key West all the time to play NTN Trivia. Yes, I'm a huge trivia dork. I've been as high as #8 in the country on a single game. In Amarillo. My 15 minutes.

When I went down there last week, Ray's was closed, replaced by some lame ass place.

So, I went across to South Shores Tavern. They have trivia. Nobody was playing, though.

This was early. Around 7:30. What the Tavern did have is a singer playing guitar and singing Dylan, Grateful Dead, and his own songs. And a lot of other stuff. I gave him a $5 tip, and he was so grateful.

One thing about Lake Worth is there is more live music than in a lot of place in S. FLA. I talked to the singer at South Shores. Matt something or other. He came from the northeast (yeah, i pretty much pegged that). He was very disappointed in the music scene in Florida. Yeah. So am I.

He was great, though. Humidity was about 99% and he was playing for his moms and me.

I've just had a a lot of good times in Lake Worth. A coworker set up a happy hour for our project team at Brogue's Irish Pub. Drunken cigar smokin' time there. It involved rusty nails at some duck themed cigar bar.

On my 32nd birthday, I went to dinner at Charley's Crab. After that, though, I met some other coworkers at a bar in Lake Worth.

Lots of good times there! Damn Ray's Key West for selling out and not having trivia...