@nickers said:

I went to Italy 2 years ago on a family trip.. Touring the Pompeii ruins was the best. it was a great trip all the way around.

Pompeii was amazing... was on the fence about spending better part of a day on it, but was so glad we did.

@tour2ma said:

Then there's London... I've walked around that city in every season and it's always the same... I end up cold and sweating.

Right???? I thought it was just me.  I had no idea if I was too hot or too cold.  It's like you walk into some weird temperature vortex where your body isn't happy no matter what.

@the-gipper said:

And it....and Naples will get buried again someday.

Of that , I have no doubt...

@nickers said:

I went to Italy 2 years ago on a family trip.. Touring the Pompeii ruins was the best. it was a great trip all the way around.

And it....and Naples will get buried again someday.

@the-gipper said:

Just busting Z's chops.   I look forward to some day walking on the Naples Beach.  (but I will have to take steps to avoid overexposure to the sun...been there, done that...and it ain't fun).

And, despites the dangers in Naples Fla. from Hurricanes....that other Naples (Italy) is actually in far more danger. When Vesuvius blows, and it will blow, it will take Naples with it.

I went to Italy 2 years ago on a family trip.. Touring the Pompeii ruins was the best. it was a great trip all the way around.

@mark-o said:

That happens here as well.   As much as y'all think I'm a wuss for not liking cold weather, you should see the people here in their gloves and ski hats big jackets when its in the high 50's

Ditto... first year in Houston (moved down in July and was met with a string of 95+ deg days with 90% humidity... Florida ain't got shit on Houston) the heaviest thing I wore thru the Winter was a fleece lined windbreaker. Natives were in longjohns when it hit 50 deg.

Winter #2? I was pretty much with them. The bitch about humidity is that it makes heat hotter and cold more biting... It just ain't fair.

Then there's London... I've walked around that city in every season and it's always the same... I end up cold and sweating.

@hoorta said:

Florida wimps get their blood thinned out by that constant heat. True story- I was down in the Keys one January for the Winter Star Party, that's astronomy, not Bogie and Bacall. About 2AM thought- it's getting a little cool, maybe I should put on a sweater. Saw two guys from Miami wearing parkas and gloves. Had to restrain a good laugh. 

That happens here as well.   As much as y'all think I'm a wuss for not liking cold weather, you should see the people here in their gloves and ski hats big jackets when its in the high 50's

@the-gipper said:

Reclaimed swamp?.  Naples may be nice....a place I do want to visit someday....but I do not think I would ever want to live in the southeast.  The Sweat Belt.  The Southwest?  Perhaps. 

Me and Tour visited there before the trek to Miami for the Dolphin's game. Nice enough. Z will have to eventually give me a report on how the place I stayed at (Cove Inn on Naples Bay) fared.  Agreed on the 90 degrees, 90% humidity  you get in Florida every day in the summer. Was in Tampa in October for the wife's cousin's wedding. It felt like a bad summer July day in Ohio. No thank you. I'm not a hot weather beach kind of guy.  My biggest let down in life? Seeing the ocean for the first time. A big SO WHAT? Once you can't see the other side (Lake Erie) doesn't matter if it's 100 or 2,000 miles away. With unlimited resources, Florida November to March and Anchorage in the summer would be my scenario. 

Florida wimps get their blood thinned out by that constant heat. True story- I was down in the Keys one January for the Winter Star Party, that's astronomy, not Bogie and Bacall. About 2AM thought- it's getting a little cool, maybe I should put on a sweater. Saw two guys from Miami wearing parkas and gloves. Had to restrain a good laugh. 

@diehardbrownsfan said:

See? Steel gray beauty, with 'white' sand and a little mist.

lmao... Could be homie's best ever.

@the-gipper said:

And the women in their bikini tops:

She could go into the dairy business.

And, despites the dangers in Naples Fla. from Hurricanes....that other Naples (Italy) is actually in far more danger. When Vesuvius blows, and it will blow, it will take Naples with it.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

See? Steel gray beauty, with 'white' sand and a little mist.

This is actually a very cool photo.....arguments aside.

See? Steel gray beauty, with 'white' sand and a little mist.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Nothing special about that at all.  Looks like Edgewater park.

Nope. Nope, it doesn't.

White sand, sea oats and palm trees. Unbroken miles of natural beach.

All props to that beach, but it looks like brown sand that was trucked in and fully clothed folks dipping in a cold lake.

Do you have a February picture?

Zombo

@tour2ma said:

Is that how your beach looks today?

Yep.

Cane came inland. Beaches minimal difference, just a little wider and sandier.

Zombo

@texasag1969 said:

I always piss my wife off when I tell people, "When one of us dies, I'm moving to the Caribbean because no way will she go with me now."

I also tell my kids I want my ashes scattered in the Caribbean, "because it's the only damn way I can get her to go there." For some reason she doesn't get mad about that line.

The Paradise I am looking for is the one by the dashboard light.  

Zombo said:

So fucking glad I won't run into you on my Beach.

Nothing special about that at all.  Looks like Edgewater park.

Zombo said:

So fucking glad I won't run into you on my Beach.

Look what the Venezuelans did to my beach. I lived in Palma Sola just down the beach to the left of this area and hiked to this point which had a pristine white sandy beach and a reef on that point that came into the beach and allowed for clear, calm waters. There was nothing but a coconut plantation where they built that power plant. Now  google map shows what happened to that point. At least they made a national park further to the west where we had the best snorkeling.

https://www.google.com/maps/@10.5001473,-68.160739,1551m/data=!3m1!1e3

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Fuck Florida.  Old fucks, swamp, heat, humidity, bugs, snakes, gators.  Flat as hell.  

So fucking glad I won't run into you on my Beach.