A desired trip to Florida, far away from the Christmas Celebrations and the cold of northern Italy!

Far from the cold and the Christmas celebrations

 

While a lot of curls and thoughtful snow crystals cloak bela, vegia Milan, we begin the dream cherished for decades and take care not to sanctify in the canonical way prossimissime Christmas leaving relatives and acquaintances to do en route to Florida, the Sunshine State, the land of sunshine that we see to reach after you have booked it all with only ten months in advance.

A nice minus 9 degrees us sbarellare bad as we leave the tundra Lombard to board with nearly two-hour delay on the direct Delta flight to Atlanta, with hostess so horrifying as to be star of films like Poltergeist and Nightmare, and the surprise announcement to Caramba to meet three-quarters of the royal family Gallarate, eagerly waiting to embrace the Emperor of the Mat in Miami, still morbidly attached to his little factory.

Almost eleven hours for me to go unnoticed, the three films shown absolutely neglected while we appreciate the first time with a taste of a pizza at very high altitude, before setting foot in the capital of Georgia with the first scheduled stop along the coincidence of a right to take a look of the town.

A twelve-lane motorway link takes us to the heart of the city, characterized by a huge square garden overlooking the CNN headquarters, the museum's greatest invention of mankind, that mysterious greenish drug marketed in the late nineteenth century who later became the ultimate vintage subsidiary under the name of Coca Cola and the extraordinary aquarium where we are amazed and fascinated by the elegance of the races, by the majesty of whale sharks, the ferocity of piranhas, from the pretty colors and the wonderful feelings of many species to be fins and gills.

As we drag Zombie to check in later when the great Nic identifies herself in perfect style Miami Vice cop in front of a kleptomaniac that right before our eyes trying to steal the jacket of Tommy and backgrounds mattresses Red Roof Hotel In Miami She welcomes us with a pool and breakfast the exorbitant sum of 65 euro per family group.

Deftly mixing haunting chants of cattlemen in Montana and melancholy melodies of Cuban exiles stoically endure the speed limit halter that influence us in very slow progress towards Key West, the last inhabited outpost in the south east coast of the U.S.: Mindful of the nervous tension built up in the spot from the legendary Teo, we help eachother with holy patience and to avoid immediate arrest due to the presence of multiple road patrols bloodthirsty driver took almost three hours to reach the nearest point in Cuba is exactly 90 nautical miles of freedom, development, democracy, wealth .

A typical example of how to attract thousands of fools in absolutely nothing, browse through pseudo period style houses, small shops typically false and finish the promenade in decantatissimo Mellory Park, along with stalls facing what should be the stage for the best sunset world famous, now closed for holidays due to accumulation of layers of clouds.

Return to the cute Sea Dell Motel Marathon after a hundred miles of islands, reefs and lush creeks including the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean, where the endless gifts of Mrs. Passoni allow us to dinner in a perfect Italian flavor with raw materials and preparation methods that become objects of study for the next millennia.

As salmon migrate upstream, hoping not to meet the ravenous fisherman Nico fascinated by every type, shape and size of bait fishing, back to the north, headed for the mainland, leaving both our sides and the sea behind us all the various keys, clusters of houses, motels and restaurants that even without being indelibly etched in our hearts we will still head for a long time in normal simple sobriety of the various Islamorada, Marathon, Cayo Largo with one exception in Duck Key, extremely chic, sophisticated and posh enough to have met a glamourissima family, of course, all white, beautiful and blonde, who has rented an entire beach, including artistic troupe, like photo shoot for their Christmas calendar.

We come to Homestad, useless town of gas stations and fast food which is, however, by the entrance gate to the Everglades National Park, very pleasant to visit all kinds of mangroves, alligators and birds of all species of all types and shock us for amount dimension, we must be careful not to step on, are more numerous than cagatori pigeons in Piazza San Marco, although there are less than half an hour from Miami that crazy for a few days left to settle in the stock of desires.

We head toward the center of Florida, it heads straight to the heart of the marshes where the facciaccia of all the rumors of the event proved one of the most beautiful emotions of our lives doing a long tour of the marshes with the air boat, flat-bottomed boat with engine outer propeller on the water that makes us tap too fast reeds and plants of this vast lake that stretches for decinaia pool of hundreds of miles to the south of the state.

The meeting very close if not glued to the sharp big teeth of alligators and countless colorful feathers of birds do not leave us without words clearly identified so that the pile of little bones called Tommino concludes that Mother Nature is the wife of Santa Claus so extraordinary is everything around us.

In the early afternoon we stopped in Naples, recommended by previous theoretical suggestions of various sites for interested hikers, but we must stress the great elegance of the town, very organized, well structured, exceptionally built with a breathtaking series of single-family homes and luxurious condominiums on the beautiful powdery white sand beach where we witness a solar splash tears of emotion.

Chapter natives: I must say, 'sti children of Obama, or at least President dell'abbronzato fans are great, the other a longer, albeit a dress worse than its neighbor, are extremely hand, courteous, polite , any form of rule-abiding and informative, leaving the bile in your mouth at the thought that we find in the beautiful country.

If you leave out the fact that everyone speaks with a big hot potatoe in the mouth making it almost unintelligible voice every note, where we will never find jobs that they advise us discount cards unsolicited strangers who wish a good morning to meet anyone, turning the city fire department handing out candy, with the prototype Oscar Stars and Stripes over to super-size hyper kindly Gramps, all white beard and belly that makes us drivers from the water of the swamps around making us realize that we are definitely something wrong in our Italy life.

With eyes still the Hollywood homes of Naples, elegant Riviera traversed the Gulf of Mexico and the gastric juices grateful for the extraordinary Pizza Hut consumed in the most classical and cinema of the motel on the road, climb over a couple of green headlands to reach Sanibel and Captiva , praised the two islands so avoidable if only the exception of a beach covered in all sincerity and truth by millions of shells that make it unique

With eyes still the Hollywood homes of Naples, elegant Riviera traversed the Gulf of Mexico and the gastric juices grateful for the extraordinary Pizza Hut consumed in the most classical and cinema of the motel on the road, climb over a couple of green headlands to reach Sanibel and Captiva , praised the two islands so avoidable if only the exception of a beach covered in all sincerity and truth by millions of shells that make it unique and unrepeatable rub on creaky shore as we passed.

Given the almost absolute absence of a bipedal human race throughout the city of Fort Myers after sundown vent our instincts committed to meeting social contact, sales assistants and personal shoppers in every kind of business with signs worthy noting where, thanks to the adored stratospheric power of the euro, we buy two pairs of Vans to sixteen European currencies, three polo Ralph Lauren jeans at 60 bucks and two Tommy Hilfiger equivalent of a pizza at Monza while the Bodega 'crucial stage from Abercrombie & Fitch, well aware of the mileage expected on new boutique in Milan, is resolved with a solitary visit to the store absolutely neglected and underestimated by Bertrand setters local insane hours for Aeropostale.

Most of the atrocities swallowing food touch it 16 pieces of chicken cooked in various ways that we extract from a trough size of a washing machine door, surrounded by extra large box of potato salad, boiled green beans, mashed potatoes and macaroni cheese, all washed down with gallons of Pepsi under the 'KFC sign.

Finalized without delay to the north, we play with the beautiful white sand beaches of Fort Myers, also variously dotted want to be colored wooden houses with direct access to refract the waves do you want from very exclusive enclave of villas dizzying, all different , though in a very nice combination and photographs.

Sliced in half the city of Sarasota, obviously disconnected from the typical mile-bridge, we pass a photocopy of the usual stretches of trees and the usual old men tanned, calm and sedentary and managed to lose a banal all'intesection intersection in the suburbs of the tiny Bradenton.

Let the tires cool down just in time for lunch and a quick way to Tampa, which seems in absolute, total desolation pre Christmas and worrying to the point that throughout Downtown and Business District skyscrapers decorated with a mirror we find a hiker goes up sidewalk.

Here in Orlando, divertimentificio mandatory for hordes of turkey farms in Iowa and female companions of heifers fattened much of South Dakota, we look a bit 'around and decide to take advantage of additional discounts on the prices already very convenient with a new descent of the receipts secured in after Christmas, with the Premium Outlet which has its own because in the matter.

The crowd is immense, after a week of peace and tranquility between pleasant beaches and relaxing bucolic landscapes mass is indeed disturbing, for the first time not only from department of geriatrics, not daring to think about what awaits us in amusement parks.

The breakfast from Dunkin Donuts is a real stab at every nutritionist and dietician and even the simplest of looks glazed brioche, stuffed, coated, colorful enough to give us all enough calories for a week of hard labor.

We go early early to Epcot, the park enterteinment chosen after months of careful analysis, accurate assessments, definitive exclusion of the many alternatives from this Las Vegas for the poor: how would the huge Teo, the inspiration for these twenty years of travel descriptions (I'll never stop thanking you, friends and family maybe a little 'less), I could find a better way to throw the first 200 euro in the bowl and flush the toilet but it was absolutely impossible to declare a sudden lump sum payment.

Nothing hyperbolic, nothing amazing (maybe they were available ...) but the worlds technological replicated with munificent donations of giants such as Siemens, Kodak and HP, which among other things at this point would do far better to invest more with Condé Nast are exciting, vibrant and well-structured much more engaging than a Disney-style entertainment resort Paris or Big Ben, and always that your identity card professed not more than twelve years.

We are a full day, going well beyond nightfall, with a total of Ko Annie and Nico brave and contemptuous of danger and tension think to want to redo the aerospace simulation, this time in the original version almost weightless with gut twisting insured and then unfortunately confirmed.

The remaking of world realities such as Mexico, France, England have just dell'agghiacciante making us regret the vast Minitalia the Seriate Bergamasco and then sprint to the Days Inn that allows the first bath, done in a swimming pool is heated but certainly not least appreciated as we stand under the stars with the calendar that marks the 27th December.

Crossing Orlando as a hot knife on a stick of butter, do not we leave behind certain emotions and regrets and even forgive the nose and above her buttocks anxious to sea on the east side of Florida, reaching with unanimous enthusiasm of the gang Cocoa Beach, a typical town that could be the emblem of the American way of life, everything was perfect, everything clean, and a pier jutting into the ocean, surrounded by dozens of riding waves, just waiting to be photographed from all angles.

Final apotheosis by Ron Jon, our shop the size of a shopping center with all the knowledge and imagination for surfers, open 24 hours a day, with customers who deposited the plates in the racks outside and come in, absolutely bare for all needs on their only pastime in life.

My stubborn reluctance toward technology has come up against an inescapable fact: the base of NASA at Cape Canaveral is something monstrously fascinating that leaves me thrilled, amazed, appalled: nothing could be more illustrative of the rockets and spaceships here present to explain the evolution of the human species and its perpetual, insatiable quest for innovation so that tapping the Apollo which allowed us to plow the lunar surface, they understand perfectly the words of Armstrong who remembers how every type of dream can become reality.

Now that's a spectacular day and thinking at the time and the coffers of money wasted in Orlando that we understand more clearly what is there to advise those present and to posterity.

Afternoon in Vero Beach, yet another postcard-perfect this reality, with boats parked in the garden with the scissors and kept perpetual disbelief about the existence of such a world, always "no country for young people" as they say in part Cohen brothers.

We have the goal in sight, now we hear the sound and flavor of Miami, the temperature is rising from all points of view, Palm Beach is extraordinary, the houses are fantastic, the weather is great, but before you get ahead an attack of liver with involvement of the gallbladder in the presence of so much blatant wealth continue to the south, after an unforgettable swim in the ocean at December 30, pass without even photograph them from Boca Raton and Pompano Beach to get to Fort Lauderdale, endless mountain building edge of the beach that leaves us pretty shocked about the criteria for zoning and building permits.

We find a neighborhood called Little Venice and not hard to understand why: a series of innumerable channels out into the sea with a small feature that is, to have real yacht next to the garden patio where you can sip an aperitif, with standing ovation to the two countries that think to call their floating cathedrals Bella Contessa and Brothers of Italy!

Today we see the two sides of the same coin, the black and white, yin and ylong of the same reality: just bask in the sun begin to wake up in Hollywood Beach in absolute isolation (apart from the fact that they have free wifi on the beach while away a couple of kilometers from the nearest) to the point that we seem to be a strip of territory in the Caribbean while the center button on the afternoon of the same coast, just a couple of miles on the left, is invaded by thousands of men, almost all incredibly sloppy, bland and scordabili.

Let's also a trip to North Miami Beach had more than one difficulty in trying to measure the millions of tons of concrete used to build barracks all these windows and balconies over thirty stories, well-diversified mix of architecture school in Las Vegas, vulgarity found Cancun and universities of technology in Dubai, everything always greener on the green of the vegetation in front of the bluest blue of the ocean.

And even New Year's Day has passed, we are in twenty ten, far from the glitter, sequins, from the trumpets and the excesses of European-style, live the fateful stroke on the roof of a hotel on Ocean Drive along with the tycoon weaving watching the fireworks South Beach, under the stars, with nearly thirty degrees more than appreciated after a dinner on the waterfront of Miami's most famous Pharaonic account for 80 bucks green in four, in the midst of a jolly crowd, jubilant and exuberant as we supposed.

Curtis, color model with perfect teeth and physical statue ripped directly from A & F billboard welcoming us to the front desk at the Sofitel Miami Lagoon making us understand the level and quality of our next bed: for the last three days in Florida we will see how the roof