> Hmm. Travel experience.
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> Well, we moved down here from up north when I was just a wee bairn, and over time, there were class trips to Orlando and St. Augustine; family trips to Orlando, Gainesville, Zephyrhills-and-surrounding-area, and eastern Illinois; and congregational trips to Gainesville, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Tampa, and Orlando.
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> With the exception of Atlanta and Illinois, I haven't left the state much.
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> Nyperold

Well, you don't have to travel much when you already live in a destination state. I recommend the Keys. Take a camera.

And Tampa Bay really astounded me the first time I saw it. I have been all over Florida for 50 years and somehow missed that one fabulus sight. Then last fall, I sailed all over it on a cruise ship and out beneath that big bridge and into the Gulf of Mexico. The shipping channel wanders around a lot in the bay so you get to see a lot of it. I had no idea it was so big. It takes your breath away at sunset.
Howard