OT Vacation

Bill, Miami Beach is pretty much abandoned in December, but it's still pretty warm for someone from Finland.. or Ohio for that matter. If you can stomach the tacky christmas lighting, plastic reindeer figures and fake snow on fake x-mas trees on every balcony, on a 80F day, you'll be fine. ;) I've been there in December once or twice. Comfortable climate, not too hot, not too cold. I did go swimming. The water is salty but fairly warm. Locals didn't flood the beaches.

In Finland they would have been packed full. LOL

With bad luck you'll meet with a small hurricane. I did. They never last that long. As a bonus prize after one, you can swim at any lowland parking lot. Until the drains start working. :)

Jan

I was in Key West in January.....very nice climate...

On 04 Jul 2004 14:12:33 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.comSPAMOUT (Bill Berckman) scribbled this interesting note:

South Padre Island. The southernmost portion of Texas. It too is very nice and what with it being December it is very much the off season and usually pretty warm. Your greatest problem there would be from all the snow-birds that love to winter there in their RVs.

-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)

snipped-for-privacy@aol.comSPAMOUT (Bill Berckman) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m19.aol.com:

I prefer the cold weather myself, but Pensacola is nice around that time of year. The Dunes hotel

Will you be driving the '67 down there?

Good God, it was you! We got switched right after birth! I knew it!

Wait til I tell mom

Jan

No because the wife does not like to ride in that car much due to rough ride, no A/C and exhaust fumes. Bill Berckman

On 04 Jul 2004 18:16:06 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.comSPAMOUT (Bill Berckman) ran around screaming and yelling:

leave her at home?....it is *your* vacation right? JT

ROFL :D

Damn :)

jan

Jan Andersson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de:

Niin juuri, veljeni. Mom always said she found me under a cabbage :-)

Funny thing is, I DID get switched at the hospital when I was born.. But mom noticed and found another mother in the corridor going "this is not my baby, this is not my baby". So they switched back.

Nobody got sued, this is Finland. ;)

Jan

...if you like Pensecola in december, you definately prefer the cold weather. Not sure about the texas thing posted...that might be a decent possibility, but if you do Florida its pretty simple. The further south ya go the warmer it is. The Keys would be the ideal, =-)

...Gareth

.................I'd go to south Florida in December. Sanibel Island near Fort Meyers is warm then but the water is not as warm as the Atlantic side which has the Gulf Stream just offshore. I spent Christmas at a beach front hotel at Boca Raton (near Fort Lauderdale) once several years ago and it was great on the beach. As for South Padre Island, the December weather there is off and on and the Gulf of Mexico is kind of cold then in Texas.......more so than south Florida's lower Gulf coast. Pensacola is way too far north to have warm beach water in December. Even Daytona has cold water then.

BTW.........I have been to all of these places and the only thing that I don't care for in Key West is that there's hardly any surf on it's beaches which I kind of like.

HTH

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 17:45:28 -0400, "Tim Rogers" scribbled this interesting note:

Scott lived and worked in Naples, Florida for a few months right after he graduated from A&P school. It was unfortunate that he choose to work for Eastern Airlines right before they went belly up!:~(

At any rate, he was living there in the wintertime. He says he had the best of everything while there. He worked at night, got off work at around six in the morning, got something to eat, and went and hung out at the beach until it was time to go to bed in the afternoon!

Ask him what he thought of the beaches around Naples in January. I don't think you'll hear him say anything negative!:~)

-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)

................That lower Gulf coast part of Florida is very nice. We stayed in a company condo on Sanibel Island for several nights in December of '87. The beaches there were great and the water was warm enough. It was on that same trip that we ended up staying at a beach front hotel for Christmas at Delray Beach (not Boca Raton as I mistakenly posted earlier). This area near Fort Lauderdale is nice too but the traffic was too much compared to the Naples/Fort Meyers area.

Stormy weather sucked a bit, but not much else bad could be said , in my opinion. I loved the "no surf thing"...................Nothing prettier to me than sitting out there on the beach watching the dorsal fin of a porpose rising and falling in the water about 200 feet out from shore,....................quiet except for the occaisional seagull in the distance,...........................could walk knee deep in the still waters edge and see the little hermit crabs crawling next to your feet.....................starfish,...................... conch shells. All of it calm and very calming to the soul. A paradise of its own kind for me.

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Why not go to the Bahamas? Been to Freeport Grand Bahamas years ago, very nice indeed.

J.