Florida, what a wonderful place!

(..continues "Trip to Detroit")

 

Florida, we're coming!

We leave with great nostalgia Sun September 22 but the destination will stimulate not just in Florida ... let's go for a fabulous tour of Olrando, Miami to reach the islands Keys ...
We arrive at Orlando International after 2 ½ hours of flight (and after 2 hours of monitoring, that on domestic flights are very much more severe than on international ones) about 19.00 us crazy humidity ... 85% humidity, 28 ° C air temperature, a tropical cyclone that seems to have shot down on the area an hour before we land ... it is truly amazing ... the scenery still collect your luggage and we head all'autonoleggio Thrifty to collect the car we had booked from Detroit. The controller that we just sene Italian improvised skit in an Italian because it has been two months in Italy on vacation and he went very well ... we are cute and then gives us the same price a car-class ... nothing evil! The surprise is on the money ... the cost basis of the car for 7 days is equal to 140 U $ prerzzo finish including taxes and insurance 420 U $!!!! Here we have a suspicion of the "mind" (as a deacon in Rome). In fact, the guy tells us that the price including taxes is 200 U $ qusto price but there are no assurances of any kind, even civil liability. Also tells us that if you steal the car we are going to pay the same. This alarmed us and then we do all our brave Insurance (salted) and the price becomes quinid said that before ... I think (even think) that if we had documented in Italy, all this would not have happened ... and then all of a council check the total cost.

Also because in the U.S. auto insurance is not mandatory or better ... it seems that the Americans provide the person and not the car then Mr. Ken Smith is insured and can drive any car and will be covered by his insurance .. driving a rental car, driving a car provided by friends or otherwise. However .... swallowed the toad's starting to search, and go just outside Orlando. There is a road (International Drive) where there are dozens of hotels, motels, restaurants, etc.. open all night, every budget. Let's go to the Days Inn (U $ 35 per night) with pool and air conditioning (no deaths would be!). Dinner at a Mexican restaurant and via a nanna.
PS so far I have put on a small local particoalre Americans. There is a free-refill or purchase a soft drink and drink what you want ... then you fill the glass continuously ... really cool but attentive and there are inflated as a puppet of Michelin!

Orlando and Miami

23 / 9 go to Universal Studios in Orlando ... we pay the ticket ($ 54 a head U + U $ 7 for parking) and go! The heat is oppressive, the feeling of sultriness reaches unbearable levels ... drink a liquid quantiotà unthinkable to try to survive ... the studios are not really a big thing. There are shows again a few hours of the day ... the cowboy stuntman, the performance of ghostbusters, then that of the Blues Brothers ... see simulations of hurricanes (twister), earthquakes (heartquake), ET and some other little something ... but honestly it is more a park for children rather than adults. Maybe it was the best park's Island of Adventure where it was more fun ... or maybe it was better eviate to spend this money and go somewhere else.

The next day (24 / 9) we head to Miami and you here the journey begins to make interesting ... let's go down with direct Turnpike (Highway dedicated to President Reagan), where you pay a mileage. Avoid it is better to take the strda freeway that skirts the ocean (which you will never see) is a little 'longer but surely the fact that it is free is a blessing .... however we come to Palm Beach and open sky .. an emerald green sea, sun, hot water and on beaches bendiddio. How much youth, how beautiful people! Let's go ahead and arrived in West Palm Beach take a refreshing dip bellismo ... you will see huge pelicans fly over your heads, seagulls walking on your towels (I swear!) .. Let's go further down and we stop in North Miami Beach will have to find a very nice motel, with pool, private beach and a truly accessible price (U $ 60 including breakfast). Is 10 min. drive from Miami Beach and costs half. I strongly recommend it! We enjoy the nice weather (which fortunately, as we hear news about the number of hurricanes Isidore, Lilli etc..), The water and the wonderful little people in the evening ... andiamoa Miami and do a tour of Ocean Drive, South Miami , Little Havana, etc.. In fact, the sera of these places are far less attractive during the day, where there is more animation and more people around. In the evening the situation changes, plenty of police to curb the high crime (say) to the tourists, many immigrants that run on machines improponibile but little happiness ... the only way is worthy Roard Lincoln where there are restaurants and shops open until late. We hope to return here during the day to enjoy the best city!

Key Biscaine and Florida Keys

23 / 9 go to Universal Studios in Orlando ... we pay the ticket ($ 54 a head U + U $ 7 for parking) and go! The heat is oppressive, the feeling of sultriness reaches unbearable levels ... drink a liquid quantiotà unthinkable to try to survive ... the studios are not really a big thing. There are shows again a few hours of the day ... the cowboy stuntman, the performance of ghostbusters, then that of the Blues Brothers ... see simulations of hurricanes (twister), earthquakes (heartquake), ET and some other little something ... but honestly it is more a park for children rather than adults. Maybe it was the best park's Island of Adventure where it was more fun ... or maybe it was better eviate to spend this money and go somewhere else.

The next day (24 / 9) we head to Miami and you here the journey begins to make interesting ... let's go down with direct Turnpike (Highway dedicated to President Reagan), where you pay a mileage. Avoid it is better to take the strda freeway that skirts the ocean (which you will never see) is a little 'longer but surely the fact that it is free is a blessing .... however we come to Palm Beach and open sky .. an emerald green sea, sun, hot water and on beaches bendiddio. How much youth, how beautiful people! Let's go ahead and arrived in West Palm Beach take a refreshing dip bellismo ... you will see huge pelicans fly over your heads, seagulls walking on your towels (I swear!) .. Let's go further down and we stop in North Miami Beach will have to find a very nice motel, with pool, private beach and a truly accessible price (U $ 60 including breakfast). Is 10 min. drive from Miami Beach and costs half. I strongly recommend it! We enjoy the nice weather (which fortunately, as we hear news about the number of hurricanes Isidore, Lilli etc..), The water and the wonderful little people in the evening ... andiamoa Miami and do a tour of Ocean Drive, South Miami , Little Havana, etc.. In fact, the sera of these places are far less attractive during the day, where there is more animation and more people around. In the evening the situation changes, plenty of police to curb the high crime (say) to the tourists, many immigrants that run on machines improponibile but little happiness ... the only way is worthy Roard Lincoln where there are restaurants and shops open until late. We hope to return here during the day to enjoy the best city!

Keys

This is the 26/9...giornata interlutoria .. we go to the islands until you get to Islamorada, where we find a beach white ... but with great surprise the sea is very dirty and unattractive. The idea is to be arrived in a place esasperatamente tourism, where there are dozens of nightclubs, pubs on the beach and shops of all kinds but the sea is practically equal to that of Ostia! Nasty surprise even more going forward even where there is a sign indicating the prohibition of bathing!
At this point we ask explanations in a shop, but we are told that beauty is close to the reef, so if there is not we better go back or go to Key West. But the length of the islands Keys (157 miles!) Does not allow us to tackle the crossing, because we must be closer to Orlando to go back. Then invert the route and we aim to Miami.

Last Days

The next day (27 / 9) is a day dedicated to the transfer, in fact we must go back on its feet to return to Orlando the next day where we have a flight to Detroit and then to Rome. Then we go directly to the north and we decide to make two stops: one in Cocoa Beach (beach loved by surfers) and the other at Cape Canaveral (home base of NASA).

In the morning we pass the last to take the sun and into the starting 11. We arrive early afternoon at Cocoa Beach. Dozens of surf shops, dozens of young muscled that go around the table under the arm ... but the waves are very small and hence the performance offered is not exactly what one imagined. In short order anything from 5 meters, but small waves that these young people prancing ride aboard these boards without any enthusiasm. However we do not lose their nerve and we are approaching Cape Kennedy. 17:00 arrive at Kennedy Space Center, and with great surprise we discover that we have to pay to come to visit the Space Museum! U want $ 27 a head, and considering that the museum closes at 18.00 we decide to go away, stealing a few photos of the shuttle from the outside ... but not to hide a sympathetic policewoman all our surprise at the price too high for a museum visit National! Sad and dejected we move to Orlando.
Our vacation is coming to an end and therefore that there is return the car and head towards the airport. From there a flight to Detroit and the connection to Rome.

Spoiled but happy we get to Rome. The experience that we had was beautiful and for days we remain speechless, thinking they might return. However if some of you wanted to exchange chat, opinions, and impressions, we find well-prepared!
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