
04-21-2007
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Toronto
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Originally Posted by RickBowman
It's darn near 3rd world standards with an upside down mobile home right next to a 300K home, then repeat with another beater and so forth down the street, and everywhere. Sorry if offended folks here but that was my first impression of the area.
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When I was 15 I visited Florida with a pal. Stayed in a trailer park north of Orlando. Bought a red Schwinn racer...first decent "adult" bike I'd bought new...and I like bikes nearly as much as boats! I cycled from that trailer park to Daytona Beach and back...Florida's so flat and narrow it is easily done by a fit teen (as I was in 1977...) there and back in a day, especially on a new bike.
I saw the same weird combination of beautiful homes and literal shacks with extremely poorly clothed people milling about them. I couldn't even tell if some places had electricity, they looked so poor. Then I hit Daytona Beach around 2 P.M., ate lunch and basically zoomed back before dark fell.
I didn't really want to be in rural Florida when dark fell.
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