I can feel your skepticism across the miles.
In any event, it was more the nature of where we stayed in Florida that captured my attention. We were in Ft. Lauderdale, so Amy can confirm or deny my experience based on her time in the Sunshine State, but what was most surprising to me was the willingness of people there to let certain parts of their town--lots, old buildings, unused golf courses, for example--to slowly decay. The first morning we were there half the group went golfing and the other went to a casino, so, left to my own devices, I took a short run around to get the lay of the land. Among other things, I found the back nine of a golf course slowly deteriorating a short distance away, separated from a grouping of hotels by two-lane highway. We may hold space to a premium in the Northeast, but seeing the course's slow state of decomposition was a memorable event. Coupled with the impressive March heat, one got the sense that the course was somehow slowly rotting away.
I may be becoming too much of a North easterner. What have been your impressions of Florida when you've been?
