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RE: Florida - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-17-2022
Home again, home again, jiggedy-jig. Uneventful flight. Cool evening stroll to late-nite Thai food to reset the corpus back to SF time.
RE: Florida - Greg - 10-17-2022
To continue the cycle, The Queen heads east tomorrow. She'll be in Florida by Sunday.
RE: Florida - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-17-2022
I can't say as I recommend it, but I understand that's where the mom lives.
Final report: People were friendly, lotta obvious Trump support, food was ok (lotta salt, though) coffee was preposterously bad, booze was unimaginative and vast, the land was devoid of character as were many of the denizens. Drivers were bad, roads were great. Beach was great, water was warm, no waves at all, skin-cancer was a driving passion for many. Everyone was tattooed. I hope I never have to set foot in that state again.
RE: Florida - thatguy - 10-17-2022
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
RE: Florida - King Bob - 10-17-2022
That makes me want to re-read Ringworld
RE: Florida - Drunk Monk - 10-17-2022
My Floridian observations are already documented on the original FL thread. See http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=2339
Don’t be fooled by cheap yetimitations…
RE: Florida - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-19-2022
(10-17-2022, 09:30 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: My Floridian observations are already documented on the original FL thread. See http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=2339
Don’t be fooled by cheap yetimitations…
Sure, Jan.
RE: Florida - Drunk Monk - 10-19-2022
(10-17-2022, 05:35 AM)Greg Wrote: To continue the cycle, The Queen heads east tomorrow. She'll be in Florida by Sunday.
Even this… plagiaryetiism from the one true FL thread…
(11-18-2011, 07:42 AM)The Queen Wrote: Funny how we never connect on these Disney trips. I'm flying out there next Tuesday (annual Thanksgiving trip to Mom's).