Has anyone ever been to Florida?

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Landry

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I have been planning on taking a trip to Florida for a few years now. My question is for those who have been to Florida, what city do you recommend I visit? I am thinking of either Miami or Orlando. I'm only thinking of going to Orlando because of Disney Land, I always wanted to visit it as a child but never got a chance to.
 

I live in the Tampa Bay area and have made many trips to both Miami and Orlando. They are really two very different vacation destinations. Miami is relaxing on the beaches during the day and also has a hot night life. Orlando is a fantasy fairy tale and amusement rides during the day with less but adequate night life available.

But if you've always wanted to visit Disney and never have, by all means go there first! I never got a chance to go as a child either. My first visit was at 30 years of age and it was everything I'd always dreamed of! It was like being a child again. Since then I've been back a dozen times and that feeling of renewed youth has barely diminished!

Come visit us!
 

I live in the Orlando area and I absolutely love the community here. We get a lot of tourists who want to come see disney world and I like that its not a fast moving city. Ive been living here for over ten years and I will definitely recommend orlando as a hot spot. LOL
 
While I don't live in Florida (but wish I did, lol!) I have family members in Clearwater, Largo and soon Sarasota/Bradenton, as my son, his wife and my granddaughter will be moving there for job relocation in several months.

I agree with everyone, Orlando is great for Disneyworld! I enjoyed Gatorland, very interesting to see all of those alligators! The winter estates of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford at Fort Meyers were very impressive to visit, when I was there quite a few years ago. I could name a million other places because Florida is just such a wonderful state to visit and vacation at. But if you're making a choice between Miami and Orlando, I agree....Orlando is a great place.

~~ Jeanne
 
Landry said:
I have been planning on taking a trip to Florida for a few years now. My question is for those who have been to Florida, what city do you recommend I visit? I am thinking of either Miami or Orlando. I'm only thinking of going to Orlando because of Disney Land, I always wanted to visit it as a child but never got a chance to.
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Where did you end up going Landry? :D

I love going to Orlando. Spent several vacations @ New Smyrna Beach, but haven't been down to Florida in quite some time now.
 
I always had good times in Florida, even when they were bad.

I had a scholarship to FIT in Melbourne (near Cape Canaveral) back in '76, but somehow they over-enrolled students and I was one of the first to get chopped. The legal case went nowhere. :(

But the town itself - about a half-hour drive or so from Orlando - was fantastic.

St. Augustine - great town. As are so many of the smaller town in the area.

Miami? I drove through there as fast as I could: I'm from New York, I don't want or need another slum.

But my all-time favorite was Key West - if I had a lot of money I'd be living there. There was just something wonderful about that town ...
 
I'm from SE Florida and have been all over the State and just like anywhere else there is something for everyone's tastes. We used to think we would retire near Orlando to induce the grandkids to visit and take them to Disney but Disney as a corporation has gotten way to wierd for our "tastes" so we are thinking eslewhere now.
 
I have been to Miami, and Pensacola, either one of those are nice places to go, if you love the beach especially, because they have some beautiful beaches with white sand, and of course it is nice and sunny there. I really like Florida. I think just about anywhere in Florida would be good!
 
Landry said:
I have been planning on taking a trip to Florida for a few years now. My question is for those who have been to Florida, what city do you recommend I visit? I am thinking of either Miami or Orlando. I'm only thinking of going to Orlando because of Disney Land, I always wanted to visit it as a child but never got a chance to.
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Orlando is fun much to see and do if you want hustle and bustle. Give me Key West, laid back, fun easy going. Great food, music, entertainment and culture. Florida has much to offer. I normally go every year and spend time with my BFF in Lake Placid, a retirement city and we do weekend trips to other places and a cruise. Great fun.
 
Several years ago we went to Fort Lauderdale and took an overnight cruise to the Bahamas, then to Orlando and Sea World.

In 2011 we stayed at a bed & breakfast on the beach at St. Augustine. I really liked the history of St. Augustine and the beach too, but both trips were good.
 
My brother-in-law is an FLA native and when they were first married I was invited to come visit one summer. Really was looking forward to seeing the everglades! But, my folks nixed that idea. Probably some overprotective plan to keep their teenage son from discovering the wonders of the wide world.

Anyway, not too interested in visiting the everglades these "daze" . . . from what I've seen about burmese python invasion (reference snake talk in garden thread...)

Besides . . . I'm a Californian! Florida??? (koff koff....)
 
We spend our winters in Palm Bay, Fl. It is on the east coast, about halfway down off I-95. We are 10 minutes to Indianatlantic River and 15 minutes to the ocean. We lived in a over 55 park, all double wides, and live quite cheaply. We love the area and there are tons of activities for us old teenagers. The only thing that bothers me are my stupid allergies to the pine trees out back.
 
I keep seeing posts from my high-school buddy / sparring partner / Best Man who moved to Florida, right to the same area (Space Coast) that I'm considering. They had Mother's Day breakfast at a restaurant right on the inlet with a sunrise as wallpaper, the crying of gulls as background music and the smell of salt air as incense.

I hate him. :mad:
 
SifuPhil said:
I keep seeing posts from my high-school buddy / sparring partner / Best Man who moved to Florida, right to the same area (Space Coast) that I'm considering. They had Mother's Day breakfast at a restaurant right on the inlet with a sunrise as wallpaper, the crying of gulls as background music and the smell of salt air as incense.

I hate him. :mad:
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if you ever get a chance to attend an Easter Sunrise service on the beach, do it. The sun rising over the ocean, birds singing and gulls doing what they do. It is a beautiful few minutes. Never been too religious, but for a few minutes, how can you not think there must be something great out there.
 
Pappy said:
if you ever get a chance to attend an Easter Sunrise service on the beach, do it. The sun rising over the ocean, birds singing and gulls doing what they do. It is a beautiful few minutes. Never been too religious, but for a few minutes, how can you not think there must be something great out there.
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Well, when I was down there as a student as well as a tourist I used to do my T'ai-Chi on the beach whenever I got the chance - always at sunrise.

I've never been religious either, but I did appreciate and admire the natural beauty. ;)
 
Pappy said:
if you ever get a chance to attend an Easter Sunrise service on the beach, do it. The sun rising over the ocean, birds singing and gulls doing what they do. It is a beautiful few minutes. Never been too religious, but for a few minutes, how can you not think there must be something great out there.
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Surfing at sunrise, especially Easter Morning, is a religious experience. Heck, surfing anytime is a religious experience.
 
Look, it's hurricane season here - Port Orange, south of Daytona Beach. So if any of you guys up north with a yen for Florida living want to trade homes until November 1st (end of the season) that would be great. My last year in PA in waist high snow, I prayed to get out of there. Unhuh, be careful what you ask for! In '04 our area was hit with FOUR hurricanes and the whole state was declared a disaster area. I'd give my eye teeth to be back where there is actually springtime with lilacs and tulips! But if you to come visit by all means do the man-made attractions, our state treasury needs the bucks!
 
janfromflorida said:
Look, it's hurricane season here - Port Orange, south of Daytona Beach. So if any of you guys up north with a yen for Florida living want to trade homes until November 1st (end of the season) that would be great. My last year in PA in waist high snow, I prayed to get out of there. Unhuh, be careful what you ask for! In '04 our area was hit with FOUR hurricanes and the whole state was declared a disaster area. I'd give my eye teeth to be back where there is actually springtime with lilacs and tulips! But if you to come visit by all means do the man-made attractions, our state treasury needs the bucks!
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Yeah, see, that's the catch - it's one to tout tourism but living there 24/7 is very different. It would be like my saying, "Come to beautiful Wilkes Barre, PA! We have the majestic Susquehanna River (which regularly floods), Eckley Miner's Village (a bunch of old, run-down shacks where miners used to live), and the wonderful Planter's Peanut Museum, which ...

... um ... sorry, they never built it. They just tore down the original Planter's factory and left a vacant lot.

Well, we have the majestic Hotel Sterling, which is ...

... darn ... it's falling down by itself, and all the funding for preservation went into the politician's pockets.

Hey, we're only 2-1/2 hours from New York City! Yeah, there ya' go!
 
Tropical Storm Andrea made herself welcome along with accompanying tornados. So, you must be well into enjoying that balmy Florida weather . . . Is it too late to say batten down the hatches?
 

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