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Florida
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No mention of bugs? My dad's folks retired to De Land and we visited a couple of times. I was eaten alive by mosquitoes. All of the bugs were out of 50's sci-fi movies: grasshoppers and "palmetto beetles" as my grandmother called cockroaches. I recall taking a greyhound down to the Kennedy Space Center and seeing spiders on the roadsides, in their webs, between palm trees. 

And it's flat.... flat as a pancake. If you read Niven's Ringworld and he describes the vastness and the distant horizon, you get that same sense when looking down the highway in Florida.

Humidity and bugs are what I remember to this day (and seeing one of the Voyagers' launch). 

--tg
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Florida - by Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-12-2022, 10:06 AM
RE: Florida - by Greg - 10-12-2022, 10:25 AM
RE: Florida - by Drunk Monk - 10-12-2022, 01:50 PM
RE: Florida - by Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-13-2022, 04:11 PM
RE: Florida - by Greg - 10-13-2022, 06:54 PM
RE: Florida - by Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-14-2022, 12:25 PM
RE: Florida - by Greg - 10-14-2022, 12:48 PM
RE: Florida - by Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-14-2022, 11:04 PM
RE: Florida - by Greg - 10-15-2022, 05:21 AM
RE: Florida - by Drunk Monk - 10-15-2022, 02:36 PM
RE: Florida - by Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-15-2022, 09:03 PM
RE: Florida - by Drunk Monk - 10-15-2022, 09:22 PM
RE: Florida - by Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-16-2022, 12:08 AM
RE: Florida - by Drunk Monk - 10-16-2022, 12:38 AM
RE: Florida - by thatguy - 10-16-2022, 12:33 AM
RE: Florida - by Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-17-2022, 12:37 AM
RE: Florida - by Greg - 10-17-2022, 05:35 AM
RE: Florida - by Drunk Monk - 10-19-2022, 12:49 AM
RE: Florida - by Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-17-2022, 12:55 PM
RE: Florida - by thatguy - 10-17-2022, 03:02 PM
RE: Florida - by King Bob - 10-17-2022, 08:31 PM
RE: Florida - by Drunk Monk - 10-17-2022, 09:30 PM
RE: Florida - by Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-19-2022, 12:40 AM

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