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Morcheeba

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- Ever had a really fucking good time somewhere within the state?

A time when you lost yourself for a while and thought, wow, this penis-shaped state isn't so bad, after all!?
 
Sanibel, beautiful place, frolicked with dolphins in the mornings, biked everywhere, got really, really drunk on some delicious rum.
 
Waking up in your car in the parking lot of the Tanga Lounge was always a good time.
 
We have a place in Inverness and it's kinda nice there. Quiet, pretty, near the Gulf, manatees and gators nearby and only a sprinkling of batshit crazy people.
 
Perg, you learned to drive in FLA? That's mighty interesting. Such as the gator in your pic.

Just a bit ago they featured Two for Tuesday on the only terrestrial rock station available in Southern Florida (unless you hook up to some college station playing shitty collegiate music) and they played Leonard Sknyrd (don't make me google!) and then Tom Petty. The DeeJay mentioned them all being from Florida.
 
Waking up in your car in the parking lot of the Tanga Lounge was always a good time.

That was no parking lot. Nor a car. That was betwixt my legs ala pussy.

But you were so unGodly drunk that it doesn't matter.
 
I lived on the Treasure Coast for a few years, and have a lot of good memories. Out of all the jobs I've had, the one I had when I was there was the best one. Great people.
 
Bowman Beach on Sannibel Island at dawn. You run up and down the beach collecting the most amazing shells before anyone else finds them. It is a great place to take kids.
 
- Ever had a really fucking good time somewhere within the state?

A time when you lost yourself for a while and thought, wow, this penis-shaped state isn't so bad, after all!?

Guessing your parents never took you to WDW when you were young, or you never spent spring break there during college. Also car racing or bikes must not be your thing because I never heard anyone say Bike Week or the Daytona 500 sucked when they went. Upcoast, you can shred waves at Cocoa Bch. and Sabastian Inlet if you want. Near that the space launches. You have the Keys, National Parks, beaches, camping, fishing and some of the best land to grow herb on the east coast.
If you cannot find something good to say about FL. besides its shaped like a penis, (IMO, thats one nasty lookin prick), you either never spent time there or have limited interests.
Seriously, what is fun for you, if you're more a snow and cold weather person than it may suck. There are all kinds of galleries and museums and stuff too. There is even a Teddy Bear Museum (or was 16 yrs ago)well it was there but just did a search it closed in 2005
 
Sugar Sand beaches

Grandfather bought lots of land there in the 50's.


Fisher Island - had a place here.
St.Petersburg
Boca Raton
West Palm Beach
Wellington
Panama City
Pensacola
 
Perg, you learned to drive in FLA? That's mighty interesting. Such as the gator in your pic.

Just a bit ago they featured Two for Tuesday on the only terrestrial rock station available in Southern Florida (unless you hook up to some college station playing shitty collegiate music) and they played Leonard Sknyrd (don't make me google!) and then Tom Petty. The DeeJay mentioned them all being from Florida.

I did. My mom's older sister, what my dad used to call my "wayward aunt," had a condo in Safety Harbor and brought me down for a week one spring break in high school. She drove the rental car to the parking lot of the park next door to the condos, put me in the driver's seat, leaned her seat back, opened a beer, lit a cigarette, closed her eyes, and said, "Go ahead; let me know if you get in any trouble."

I saw the gator while paddling around right off the Peace River Outward Bound base. We had a day off, so I borrowed a canoe and spent a glorious afternoon skimming around the Glades, a good hour following the resident gator around. He (?) lived right there by the dock where the kids would be stuck in canoes for their float trips. You can't ask for a better way to make a kid think he's in the jungle now.

"Lynyrd Skynyrd pickin' down in Jacksonville..."

I never new Petty was from down there.
 
Amelia Island, FL is a lovely place. We're going back there this September.

It is pretty. Somewhere I have a favorite shirt I bought there, a black, hooded long sleeve tee shirt that says "Amelia Island" on the front. I love the thing. Wore it constantly, until we moved, and now it's in purgatory in the storage unit.
 
I say tie it off like a floppy digit :D

It's a shit place but there are nice things there. All the bad comes more from the people than anything. Sure, there's mosquitoes, giant snakes, humidity, old people, Cubans, Morcheeba, pedophiles, serial killers, Jeb Bush and every gas station sells alligator heads and dead baby sharks but Disney will always be fun.
 
A family member - who also happened to be an Indy car race winner and a NASCAR race winner - decided he wanted to show up at Daytona one February, talk himself into a ride, and race; he took a buddy and 18-year old me along as his "crew".

Steering a Ford Econoline van, which pulled an Airstream trailer, he drove the few miles to pick up his buddy and then, just short of the freeway...

...pulled over, told me to take the wheel, and then climbed in back where he and his buddy began drinking beers.

For almost two weeks we lived in a trailer park on the beach, eating fried Spam and egg sandwiches every morning it seemed...

...and then hitting the track until the sun went down.

After he made the race, his wife flew down and he left us the Airstream to bunk in while he and his wife got a room.

One eve, his buddy and I went to a movie theater which was then showing its first-run of arguably the most famous porno movie of all time (I will not cite the title lest I date myself).

This particular theater held a balcony and after the flick aired, his buddy and I were exiting from the lower level out through the lobby...

...when we literally ran into the driver and his wife as they alit the stairs from the balcony level.

That was funny...

In college, our bike team trained in Key West during spring break...

...what drudgery.

The only other time I've ever done time in FL was a stint with an IMSA GTP team based in Hollywood...

...until finding out the car owner was a monster importer of ether.
 
It's a shit place but there are nice things there. All the bad comes more from the people than anything. Sure, there's mosquitoes, giant snakes, humidity, old people, Cubans, Morcheeba, pedophiles, serial killers, Jeb Bush and every gas station sells alligator heads and dead baby sharks but Disney will always be fun.

and air boat rides
 
It is pretty. Somewhere I have a favorite shirt I bought there, a black, hooded long sleeve tee shirt that says "Amelia Island" on the front. I love the thing. Wore it constantly, until we moved, and now it's in purgatory in the storage unit.

I'll see what I can find in September. :)

Amelia is really special to my dad. He and my mother used to work at the resort there, and I think they had some really good times together back then. Two years ago, I finally got to see the place that I had only heard so much about. It was the most enjoyable vacation I've ever taken, and I'm anxious to go back there.
 
It's a shit place but there are nice things there. All the bad comes more from the people than anything. Sure, there's mosquitoes, giant snakes, humidity, old people, Cubans, Morcheeba, pedophiles, serial killers, Jeb Bush and every gas station sells alligator heads and dead baby sharks but Disney will always be fun.

You forgot the Swap Shop and the Redneck Riviera, but it has its charms.
 
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