To get to the house Potter and Suzette
lived in, on Choctawhatchee Bay, you'd turn at the Museum of the Sea and Indian,
in Miramar Beach, where Highway 98 came out of the piney woods, and you first saw
the Gulf of Mexico, with its green water, white beaches, nothing but sand dunes and
sea oats between there and Fort Walton Beach except Destin, a few radomes, and the
NCO Beach Club on Okaloosa Island, and drive down a dirt road until you reached the
end, at the water, then turn left.
The Museum of the Sea and Indian is gone,
rubber tomahawks, giant mola-mola skeleton, and all, Highway 98 has been rerouted,
the dirt road has been paved.
Did I imagine this? Am I confused? Disoriented?
To orient means to face the east.
Does the sun still rise in
the east?
Once you doubt your instruments, all is lost.