SUCCESS STREET

One day this week I went up Success Street. I thought I would come back down Success Street too but instead I came home another way. Success Street is my favorite street in this town and I often take visitors up "my" little street which is about 4 blocks long running north and south between two of the downtown lakes in the city. I really don't know how I discovered the street except that I try to take less busy streets off the beaten path to get places and probably found it that way. I find that driving is a lot less stressful if I leave in plenty of time, use less frequently driven streets, give other drivers the benefit of the doubt more often, and do less horn cursing, or cussing as we say back in Indiana.

Success Street has circa 1910-1920 bungalow houses down both sides of the street. The neighborhood doesn't yet know whether it is coming or going since some of the houses still are rather much in a state of disrepair and some are being meticulously renovated. I suspect that when this current real estate depression begins to take off again so will Success Street. One of the very nice things about this street is that the city has engineered roundabouts in the middle of the blocks with a large palm tree planted in the middle in order to slow the flow of traffic making for a quite genteel neighborhood. The street is nicely shaded which is a nice diversion from most Lakeland streets.

While I may never live on Success Street I can still enjoy my little excursions up the street on my way about town and imagine what life would be like there within easy walking distance of two lovely lakes--one inhabited by aligators and the other by swans and many other water fowl.