I am going to confess something here. I can’t stand Florida. Yes, I know there are those
out there who will either excoriate me for this confession, or those kinder, more patient souls who will explain that I
need to just give it a chance. And of course on top of all this it is rather absurd to make a blanket statement about
an entire state. So I’m sorry. Sometimes I act irrationally. But it still stands. I don’t like Florida.
OK, now that is off my chest, I will say that I am willing to give the orange state a try. I would love, for
example to do a drive down the keys, to be sitting in a convertible and hit those long white bridges one after another,
perhaps make a stop for some tarpon fishing, and then end up at the finale at some bar in Key West sipping margaritas.
That’s cheesy, I know, but I’d do that.
Or, and here let me give Florida another chance to redeem itself. I could get into that same convertible and head
to the Florida panhandle. I might follow the route planned out by this roadtrip, offered by Budget Travel.
Reading this piece, I will tell you that I was compelled to give the state another chance, and might just do so. But in
the meantime, even though it is cold as heck here, I just can’t bring myself to want to go to Florida.