Post something you like about Florida.

That's right, suckaz, end game just got here. Zero responses, here we go.

I love snorkeling!

we took our next vacation to Cozumel to snorkel some more.

Snorkeling is so relaxing, just lie in the water and watch the fishies and enjoy the pretty corals.

It's EPIC. Swimming around looking at colorful tropical fish...

The problem was that as a Californian, not only am I not used to snorkel equipment, I'm not used to swimming anywhere with waves and I'm not used to swimming in salt water. I kept having to stop and spit, and after the first time diving to look at a fish? I didn't do that again. x(

and scantily clad laideees!

:P

it makes the rest of the teams (or states) feel superior? :hide:

:shrug:

Something you wouldn't expect from the state with the worst pizza in the country.

that's all I got
and they don't really claim Florida

Hemingway's Home for Multidactyl Cats
fresh seafood
day trips to the Dry Tortugas (don't miss that one if you have the chance to do it, and take your snorkeling gear with you if you do.)
Key Lime Pie

according to Google it would take sixteen and a half days to walk there.

Fine with me.

and a lot of things about it.

I love the education I got there. The cost of living is very reasonable. My children went to school there, and got a very good education, my daughter was IB at Pensacola High.

I love the beaches. Who could NOT love the beaches?

Also a lot of activities every night there. Art galleries, WUWF recording live, Seville night, the bars, the EVERYTHING!

I loved my job and my life in Pensacola, FL. Life pretty much sucks for me now that I am not there. God, I hate Texas.

It doesn't get much better than that.

I'll have to dig up the pics for you!

At least they said they were dolphins. I was starting to doubt them when they wanted me to rob that bank for them.

I enjoy going to Florida. No way I'd want to LIVE there, but visiting is hella nice.

move there..

I don't live there.

there's an entire continent between me and the state. B-) :hide:

add on a weird dangly appendage in the lower right and make an off-color joke. (Baja just doesn't cut it in that regard...)

Which is one thing I like about Florida.

The other is the Redneck Riviera

You beat me to the manatee, but that's alright, because it's all about the big, happy beasts, ain't it?

The manatees flock to them in the winter because the water temp is a constant 72 degrees. One of the coolest experiences I've ever had in my life was swimming with the manatees there and petting one (until the park ranger reprimanded me for doing that, but hey, it was still an awesome experience).

Okay, Hawaii looks pretty awesome, I'll admit.

Best state in the Lower 48. Nothing else comes close. I'll always love Maryland for sentinmental purposes, but there's no where else I would rather live than in Sunny F.L.A.

Hot women in bikinis in January.

:shrug:

Why you try to hide it...:shrug:

Pretty scenery?

I couldn't stand the constant heat when I was down there. Even when I was down there on business in December it was muggy and humid.

I have a large segment of my family down there, and everything I've ever heard about the schools and the politics down there makes me wonder why people don't march on the capital, fully armed. :(

Florida is the least scenic state I have ever been to. :shrug:

It's just so FLAT! x(

It's all a matter of perspective. And there's nothing like summer skies in Florida and watching the cumulous clouds build up.

And "least scenic state"? Are you kidding me? You ever been to any of Florida's natural springs?

That's right, sucka, I said DisneyWorld. Never has such man-made plastic and plaster phoniness worked so hard to create a magical illusion for no other purpose (aside from making money) than to make you smile. Yeah, just like your favorite Hollywood personality, it's fake, but it's beautiful, too.

:(

I loved living in Homestead/Florida City. I loved bougainvillea and other tropical plants. I loved going to the Everglades. I loved how they protect Florida panthers. I miss Florida Marlins, Miami Dolphins. I miss the smell of ocean from both east and west. I did not leave because of hurricanes. I left because of insurance companies!!! They raised from normal 379.00 to over 2,000 on my house and also car insurance went from 1,600 to 700 per year when I moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas.

I miss working for the Miami Herald and its employees. Most of them were very friendly. I miss South Beach, Key Largo and Islamorada and Key West.

I moved here to look after my Mom. I don't know if I can ever go back because I'd have to go back to work since costs of living in Florida..too high. I can manage on my SSDI and pension from the Miami Herald here, but I probably won't be able to in Florida.

On edit: look at my avatar: Florida White Ibis. They'd often visit my yard. Loved them! As well as doves.

I felt like I was back in the dinosaur times. Kinda like a real life Land of the Lost.

I will think of something...


:P

Florida that is awesome!

The Golden Girls were lived in Miami! Hello!

Mickey Mouse aside. But that is not all Florida is to me. But I do like it.

:thumbsup:

We're not all proto-hominids.

But where the hell were you when I was in Florida 11 months ago?

and all the horse farms and orange groves. Fuck the people. I love the geography and history of Florida.

Beautiful down there!

When you can find them. x(

And every other year or so I go visit him. I love getting "mothered" by my step-mother and we always go to Disney world.

Gainesville: very cool town; love the Civic Media Center: http://www.civicmediacenter.org/
St. Augustine: can't believe it's only 33° there as I type this! http://www.staugustine.com/
Key West, where my little sister lives: Duval Street, White Street Pier, to name just a couple. http://www.keywest.com/

Lots to love about Florida! :hi:

It was right after Hurricane Charley had cut through right to the south. The place was deserted, except for us and the otters. Great experience!

There are nice beaches.

My crazy sister lives there.

I have good friends in Gainesville & Jacksonville.

Relatives in Naples. And Clearwater.

Soft-serve ice cream tastes better in Florida. :)

Republican gubmint for the assholes. :-)

and your pack.

:hi:

and 8 grandchildren , and CrewLeader lives there! If Crew is there it has got to be a cool place to be


Also the Dali museum in St Pete and the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, and of course the ocean and yummy citrus


Florida is a cool place !

Out of the cold and causing trouble with my best friend in Coral Gables. The pool at the Standard on South Beach is the BEST.

I love that place.

It's beautiful.

A guy who would do anything to rescue an abused or neglected dog makes Florida a better place.

The springs. The thousands of miles of beaches. The warm weather, all year round. The palm trees. The springs. The Keys, and the Seven Mile Bridge. Bahia Honda state park.

The fact that everything there is so lush and green. That's why I love the humid and rainy summers, no joke. Other hot places are always going up like tinder boxes on a yearly basis. Not Florida.

The Everglades. There is no other ecosystem in the world like it. It's like an organism all of itself.

The Ocala National Forest. Central Florida and being dotted by hundreds upon hundreds of small lakes.

The springs.

St. Augustine, perhaps my favorite town in America. Jacksonville, a surprisingly underrated city (no joke!).

The way the puffy cumulous clouds expand against the crystal blue sky during the summer. They create mountain ranges in the sky.

The fact that the oceans and Gulf are swimable year round in most places. You don't get that in most places, even supposedly "warm" places.

The springs.

Wacky South Florida. A bit congested, but its still home to me.

Manatees. Alligators. And all the wildlife in between.

Did I mention the Springs?

I love this state. I'll put it up against any other state except perhaps Hawaii and it would win hands down.

gotta love 'em! :)

Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge was having Everglades Day. There was an armadillo just rummaging right under the board walk. Pretty cool.

Don't get me wrong. Hills and mountains are great. But there is something to be said about looking out and just seeing all that blue sky from horizon to horizon to horizon, without anything in that way. Especially in places like the Everglades.

That being said, there are some nice hilly regions in Florida to the west of Orlando.

John D. MacDonald, Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard. The Conch Republic. The art school funded by a circus is rad. It sounds like a fun place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in hurricane regions. I'll take a nice little earthquake any day.

n/t

:)

Ft Lauderdale. Working. My class is taking a test and I'm DU'ing The Lounge.

other than that, I'm sure glad I'm not down there

When we'd go to the beach, we'd see the tracks left by sea turtles in the night, up to the place they chose to lay their eggs, then back to the sea again.

I would dearly love to see the little guys hatch and make their journey to the water.

The natural beauty of Florida is breathtaking!

least train at some famous tennis camp there?

My heart still skips a beat when I think of her...

Just sayin.

We're just across the border in Alabama.
:-)

Or so I've heard.

sublime

I remember my last drive through the Keys after I got home I would close my eyes and still see that beautiful, beautiful water.

And it's not just the ocean or the gulf. Check out the freshwater springs in the northern inland part of the state:

Just wow.

any time of the year.

I only went to Pompano Beach once, to meet with late father in law's attny
Mr 'pede asked the guy at the fish counter at the soopermarket here if he could get in some pompano, guy had no idea what he was talking about

2. The Dali Museum in St. Pete
3. The Ringling Museum and Estate near Punta Gorda
4. Naples at Sunset
5. "Panthers SCORE!"
6. The cut rate Disney store in Sawgrass Mills mall near Marshall's. A great place to get Xmas gifts.
7. In the very early morning in Belle Glade, the steam blowing off of the sugar mill makes the street smell like molassass. Generally speaking, I love looking at the sugar fields, even if the owners are -- how shall we put this -- flawed individuals.
8. Miami has some of the most beautiful women in the world.
9. Near the Oakland Park Blvd. exit of the Sawgrass Expressway is a strip plaza with a little family-style Cuban place called Don Carlin. Really nice Lechon Asado and Bistec Palomillo at very fair prices -- served up with Maduros (sweet plantains), black beans, and rice.
10. All my friends and family there who I miss every day

My family often vacations in the St. Pete Beach/Treasure Island/Madeira Beach area outside of Tampa/St. Pete, we love the uncrowded, warm beaches, decent dining, and variety of lodging options (hotels, condo and house rentals) in the area all at a price that's generally much lower than traveling outside the continental US.

And did I happen to mention


IT'S WARM ?

And humid and sweaty--miserable.

Still keeps everything lush and green and from drying to a crisp. It only makes the wonderful oceans, springs and lakes feel all the better. Which forever beats trying to regain feeling in one's extremities in some frozen hellhole.

And right now, by the way, it is perfect. Just perfect. 75 degrees and sunny.

x(

people complain about humidity.

Florida is WONDERFUL.

But perhaps that comes from the fact that my dad had an aversion to air conditioning and we never got central air in our house (in Maryland) until I was 16 or so. So I'm well adapted to that.

I did live there for about six months, and I visited frequently as a child.

I like Key West and would go back for a vacation. I enjoyed Miami.

The climate is too hot and humid for me. I do like the warmth and clarity of the ocean there, and the beaches. Aside from that, there is virually no culture, a highly transient population, except for the retirees, and the inland areas are just ugly and featureless. It is tract America, with little to recommend it, and almost nothing unique.

the launching pad for U.S. space exploration.