A word that has come to mean, not taking one, i.e. VACATION and staying at home, but visiting places of interest nearby, huh? And everyone should get to know their area!
Well, in our case it is a NO-brainer, since we are fortunate enough to live in VACATION LAND!
Although, we have a pool and a boat, dock which means we have a short boat-ride to the harbor, five minutes, for fishing, swimming, shelling, or eating waterside etc., but we also are in not too shabby traveling distance from the amusement parks that the world comes to see! Disney and Universal, three hours, Busch, Weeki Wachee only an hour and a half away, the Florida Keys five hours plus, yep this state is big and full of fun stuff to do!
Who am I fooling, I'm house bound?
BUT I was fortunate enough to do all of those things many times before I could not!
I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in spite of my limitations, since we have a convention center, fisherman village shops and restaurants, arts center, historic village, and cultural center with theater, with a few museums to boot! Restaurants from every land/nationality, and all this within my ten miles radius! Not to mention shopping from fancy to thrift.
Just call me lucky, not to mention a beach front park with tennis courts, swimming pool besides the sandy beach, with a boat launch and dock, and boccie ball courts, basket ball court, volley ball court and playground and pavilions and shuffleboard, not too far away as well as numerous golf courses if I were so incline; all with a boat-ride, five minutes or car drive away, by just a few blocks!
I do better in air-conditioning these days, unless in a cool pool of water... its been an unusually warm nineties for this time of year, these last several weeks... YES! Even for FLORIDA, now we are usually in the eighties, the nineties have been in all the nearly twenty-eight years we have lived here in August, not unlike good ole NJ! Global warming I suspect.
This hurricane season, which starts June first and goes to November thirtieth, we are supposed to be having a slightly lower chance of hurricanes, but we are all reminded that it ONLY TAKES ONE to do the devastation, Andrew, Charley, Katrina and Sandy, to name a few...NOT GOOD!
Although with el nino 2014 this article in news at National Geographic explains how it will be beneficial to the west coast of the US and also preventing too many storms here on the east coast! Thanks little fellow!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140522-atlantic-el-nino-hurricane-forecast-weather-science/
On that upbeat note, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
Well, in our case it is a NO-brainer, since we are fortunate enough to live in VACATION LAND!
Although, we have a pool and a boat, dock which means we have a short boat-ride to the harbor, five minutes, for fishing, swimming, shelling, or eating waterside etc., but we also are in not too shabby traveling distance from the amusement parks that the world comes to see! Disney and Universal, three hours, Busch, Weeki Wachee only an hour and a half away, the Florida Keys five hours plus, yep this state is big and full of fun stuff to do!
Who am I fooling, I'm house bound?
BUT I was fortunate enough to do all of those things many times before I could not!
I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in spite of my limitations, since we have a convention center, fisherman village shops and restaurants, arts center, historic village, and cultural center with theater, with a few museums to boot! Restaurants from every land/nationality, and all this within my ten miles radius! Not to mention shopping from fancy to thrift.
Just call me lucky, not to mention a beach front park with tennis courts, swimming pool besides the sandy beach, with a boat launch and dock, and boccie ball courts, basket ball court, volley ball court and playground and pavilions and shuffleboard, not too far away as well as numerous golf courses if I were so incline; all with a boat-ride, five minutes or car drive away, by just a few blocks!
I do better in air-conditioning these days, unless in a cool pool of water... its been an unusually warm nineties for this time of year, these last several weeks... YES! Even for FLORIDA, now we are usually in the eighties, the nineties have been in all the nearly twenty-eight years we have lived here in August, not unlike good ole NJ! Global warming I suspect.
This hurricane season, which starts June first and goes to November thirtieth, we are supposed to be having a slightly lower chance of hurricanes, but we are all reminded that it ONLY TAKES ONE to do the devastation, Andrew, Charley, Katrina and Sandy, to name a few...NOT GOOD!
Although with el nino 2014 this article in news at National Geographic explains how it will be beneficial to the west coast of the US and also preventing too many storms here on the east coast! Thanks little fellow!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140522-atlantic-el-nino-hurricane-forecast-weather-science/
On that upbeat note, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!