I always hear people talk about how garbage Florida is and talk about it like its hell on earth. Heard it described as the waiting place for old people to go and die. I have spent a few months there over the years and I completely disagree.
This was all pre covid just for the record and written from a tourist perspective who has been there several times throughout the years. I have been lucky enough to visit several cities in Florida and even drove up the coast which was amazing.
Spent time in Miami which has the most beautiful beaches ever (specifically south beach). I literally spent most of the day jumping into the waves and the warm water was amazing. I actually liked the water there better than the Caribbean because it wasnt as salty. Miami is just a beautiful city the way it is designed, the houses near the water, the whole strip of South Beach has such a great vibe.
Also been to Daytona which had great beaches and beautiful weather. There are lots of great fun things to do all over Florida like Disney, Universal studios, theme parks all over. Even stopped at a mini casino and won enough cash for a free dinner.
I took a 7 day cruise out of their to the Caribbean that was very cheap out of Fort Lauderdale I believe. People who live there have so much fun stuff to do. I rented a car and drove all along the coast and it was gorgeous, the scenery was nice and there were tourist stuff to do everywhere. The weather was beautiful pretty much every day I was there.
I always hear people also say how the people in Florida are mean and not friendly. My wife was doing her PhD at university of Central Florida many years back. I went to the university and got a chance to meet people there she knew. All were very friendly. Almost every person I met there was actually very friendly.
We even went to downtown Disney just scrolling around and one person cam up and gave us movie tickets because they had to leave. We thanked them very much and watched a movie. We came out and some other stranger cam up to us and said they had to leave to get a flight and gave us cirque de sala (sp) tickets which we were very surprised but grateful for. The tickets were in the second row ( was an awesome show) and the people who gave us the tickets were very kind and very nice.
The one bad thing about Florida i would say is the extreme weather. There was a hurricane when my wife was there and she had to go to a gym (luckily they were all ok but their was a lot of property damage).
I remember during the housing crisis of 2008 houses were so cheap and I really regret not buying a place there. Still might retire there someday.

So this past weekend in Florida is a Vacation I’ll never forget.. its like one of those stories you hear on the News where you dream that one day something like this could happen to you. We’ll start On Saturday. The day was lackluster at best, you know those awkward family vacations where you feel out of place especially around your family... to make everything worse, we were in a state where we knew no one and finding some good bud was near impossible. We managed to get 2 fat joints on the Plane, hidden very well of course, but after that it was CBD from then on. It wasn’t the end of the world but, FUCK when you go a week without pot it feels like an eternity. It truly does make everything better especially when your stuck with family for the entire week.
So I had the Idea to rent a Scooter. (I HIGHly Recommend Renting a Scooter while on Vacation in SoFlo.) We cruised all up and down the coast from DeerField Beach all the Way down to the beaches in Fort Lauderdale. On the way, we went down Hillsboro Mile (which is where the story gets Juicy later into the Story) where the entire Mile is Full of Homes that only the 1% can afford. I Loved it, what an experience it was. I know I won’t have that kind of money anytime soon, but hey it definitely got me MOTIVATED!!! As we were Scootin past these homes, I pulled into a Vacant Lot in between 2 Multi Million Dollar homes and drove all the way up to the beach and parked. Man, what a view, It got me thinking, “how often do these beaches get used?” I didn’t see a single person in sight, I knew as of then that I wanted to explore this area of the beach before I leave to go back to the boring Midwest... so we left and continued south until we were in Fort Lauderdale.
We stopped and had Lunch at a small Italian place called Kisses of Italy. I ordered Chicken Parm that wasn’t even on the Menu (Best Chicken Parm Sandwich EVER) and my Gf had a Hotdog Sandwhich (3 Hotdogs on a toasted bun with toppings.) After a great Lunch we went back home to relax after a great Scooter ride.
Scroll forward about 6 hours and we are headed to the Casino because we can’t seem to get her family to do anything other than sit at home.. (were on vacation, so we don’t wanna just stay home) when we arrived at the Casino, we each took out $60 (TIP. Only take out $60, if you lose it GO HOME, if you gain $60 back, pocket it and DONT TOUCH IT, continue to play with your winning, until you either lose what you had profited or are ready to be finished) and headed straight to the Roulette Table. I started with my $60 and it was gone within 10 minutes and she put in $20 and it was gone after 2 minutes. (It was on a Red Streak and I refuse to play Red) We went outside to smoke a CBD Joint and are prepared to lose the rest when we go back inside. So when we go back in (after about 30 minutes) we see that the tables have turned and my LUCKY number 33 has been hit twice as well as a slew of other black numbers. We then put in the last $40 and got up to $200 in a matter of minutes. I think we had a number get hit 5 times in a row with $2-$3 on the number plus $75 on black. Needless to say we made our money back and profited $800 for the night! We left at 12:45am and got to sleep around 2:00am.
We woke up on Sunday at 7:30 to spend our last few hours on Florida on the Beach. (I didn’t wanna get outta bed) After sleeping an entire week on a crappy blow up mattress and having little sleep the night before, my body was telling me to stay in bed. We got to the beach around 8:30 and stayed until 10:00. I made sure we had enough time to go to the Spot I mentioned the day before. So we get home and hop on the scooter and head for Hillsboro Mile. (There is only 1 public entrance to this beach and its at least a 1/2 mile walk in the sand to get to where I wanted to go, so we took the scooter to the very last Condo Building before the Row of Mansions on Hillsboro Beach. All the parking spots were numbered so I just parked in the covered area by a door to get inside. There was only 1 sign that said no Trespassing unless your a resident, and there was a Chain going across 5 posts about 3 feet high. We hopped the Chain and were to the Beach within a minute or 2.
There wasn’t a person to be seen in the area, which is something I have wanted for awhile. Technically all Florida Beaches are Public Property, so we weren’t breaking any major rules. We started walking down the beach toward all the mansions. (I Recommend this walk for anyone that comes to the area. It’s extremely peaceful, just make sure you respect the beach and make it look better than when you got there.) As I got to about the 3rd Mansion I saw an elderly man in the distance and he saw me eagerly looking for Cool Seashells at the beach. When he got close he took off his headphones and told me that he saw a package on the beach a little ways down that had appeared to be drugs of some kind. He didn’t want to have anything to do with it, but seemed like he wanted me to take care of it. So we keep walking another 500 feet or so until we see what the man was talking about. It was a vacuum sealed black bag that was wrapped in multiple layers of plastic to form that of a brick. It had the Sun of Uruguay on the front (the Cartel Logo) it appeared to have been in the Ocean for a very very long time, but also appeared to be sealed still. (Keep in mind our flight leaves at 5:00pm and it’s currently 11:30am) so my GF takes off her shirt and we wrap it in the shirt so it doesn’t look Suspicious and we start walking back to the Scooter. At this point we had already made a video of finding it on the beach and we took a few pictures of it. (At this point No one knew about this except us, the old man was long gone by this point too) we put the brick under the seat of the Scooter and start heading towards her dads house. (Yes we’re just cruising around with a 30k brick in a cheap $500 scooter.)
When we get to the house we pull into the Garage and show them what we found, and they literary Flipped! They kept trying to tell us we were going to get a possession charge or something even worse. They wanted us to go find a trash can and go throw it away. I didn’t agree with how rash they were thinking. (Technically we didn’t do anything wrong, we took the package from the beach so someone else didn’t get their hands on it, and at this point we were pretty set on going to turn it in) So we unwrap it from the shirt and put it on a Walmart bag and bag into the Scooter seat and we start heading to the Police Station.
The Scooter has to be turned in at 12:00, and I didn’t wanna potentially get held for questioning and get a late fee, so we pulled over and call 911, I told them the short version of the story and they send a BCS out to meet up with me and we opened the Seat and he opened the bag and said that’s quite the find!! We told him where we found it and what our intentions were and he was SUPER COOL, we had a few questions about the brick and he answered all of them and talked to us about it. He took our info and asked us about our local college football Teams. All in all it was the Craziest way to end a Vacation.
I’ve been back now for 3 days and can say we are moving to Florida at the end of April. I’m an adventurer at heart and after finding the find of a lifetime it has motivated me to move to Florida to start our Fun Filled Life. I do want to say that I have never done this Product and know nothing about it. I know this could have been the Best/Worst thing that could have happened to me. I have also imagined so many other ways I could have handled it. Either way I’m happy it won’t end up on the Street even though I potentially gave up 30-100k worth of Pure Untouched Product. If you read this entire thing, I want to Thank you and welcome you to the Crazy Life I’m Living in. Follow to stay up to date with when I move and start searching the Beach again. Until then... Peace and Love

General things anywhere (tourist friendly):

• Flanigan’s
• Horseback riding
• Parasailing
• Scuba Diving
• Snorkeling
• Banana boating
• Kayaking
• Take a cruise
• Take a ferry to the Bahamas
• Rent a sailboat
• So a sunset cruise
• Sea turtle Release
• Go to a park and throw a boomerang or something
• Go to an archery range and fire off some arrows
• Go to the everglades
• Go ice skating
• Skydive Miami
• Go Golfing
• Go Fishing
• Go kite surfing
• Go to a carnival
• Go camping
• Go to Flanigan’s
• I don’t know bro, just go do something you like

MIAMI:

South Beach/Miami Beaches/Key Biscayne:

-SoBe (not touristy):

• Food/Bars:
  • Lost weekend
    • good pool tables
  • Ramen.Baby.Burger.
    • -Best ramen (outside my homemade) in Miami
    • -Cool atmosphere (if you like japan and anime)
    • -Rooftop Bar on the roof
  • Playwright Irish Pub
  • Sylvano's
    • Legit italian ITALIAN restaurant
    • Cannot stress enough that this is not Olive garden and is in fact authentic Italian
  • Joes' Stone Crab
    • Historic Seafood restaurant
    • Very famous
  • Pubbelly
    • Good gastropub
  • Giotto Maestro Della Pizza
    • Great authentic neapolitan style pizza
  • Cleo
    • Fancy Mediterranean place
  • Byblos
    • Expensive Greek food
    • Very good though
  • Time Out Market
    • -Good new food hall
  • Lincoln eatery
    • -Similar food hall, but small
    • -Kosher options
  • News Cafe
    • A favorite spot of Gianni Versace
    • Good breakfast and drinks
  • Under the mango tree
    • -Hippie Acai bowl place
  • Paul’s Bakery
  • Chotto Matte
    • -Peruvian/Japanese fusion
    • -Cool atmosphere
  • La Sandwicherie
    • -Classic

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• Things to Do:
  • Ocean Drive
  • Lincoln Road Mall
  • South Pointe Park Pier
  • New World Symphony
  • Jewish Museum/Holocause Memorial
  • Espanola Way
  • Nikki Beach
  • Monthly Nerd Night events
  • Culture Crawl
  • Sunday Farmers market
  • Colony Theater
    • -Historical theater
    • -See a show there

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-North Beach:

• Food/Bars:
  • Flanigan’s
  • Blue Beer Garden
  • Broken Shaker
    • Real chill outdoor bar
    • Miami vibe
  • Shucker’s
    • -Waterfront bar and grill
    • Marky’s Gourmet Supermarket
  • Josh’s Deli
    • -Good Ass Sandwiches
  • Tap 79
    • -small gastropub
    • -Has a piano
  • Tacaria
    • -Cool street taco place
  • Makoto
    • Upscale (expensive) Japanese restaurant in the Bal Harbour Shops
  • Taquiza Tacos
    • Also in SoBe
  • 27 Restaurant
    • Good waterfront food
    • Good portions

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• Things to do:
  • North Beach Band Shell (ampitheater)
  • Haulover Park
    • -Great Surfing
    • -Skatepark
    • -PumpTrack
    • -Fishing
    • -Dog beach
    • -Nude Beach (if you want)
    • -Food truck event every Tuesday
    • -Sandbar parties
    • North Shore Open Space Park
    • -Skatepark
    • -Active on weekends with barbecues
    • -Dog Park
  • Full Moon Drum Circle Party
    • -Giant hippie drum circle/Music/Dance Fest
    • -Every full moon at 79th street/North Shore Open Space Park
    • -A lot of fun
  • O-Cinema
    • -Indie Movie theater
  • Bal Harbour Shops
    • Luxury Mall
    • Good place to walk around if you want to feel poor
    • People dressed like Cruella Deville

-Biscayne/Virginia Key:

• Things to do:
  • Bill Baggs State Park
  • Miami Seaquarium
  • Stiltsville
  • Jungle Island
  • -Parrot jungle
    • -Indoor “skydiving”

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-Wynwood/Midtown/Downtown:

Food/Bars:

• Chill Bars:
  • Lagniappe
    • -wine and food bar. Very chill. Good music. Lots of jazz.
  • Le Chat Noir
    • -Good Jazz
  • Churchill’s
    • -Total dive bar
    • -Jazz jams on Monday night
    • -Other music and performances
  • The Corner
    • -Great small bar and gastropub
    • -Real quaint and cool
    • -Jazz on Tuesdays
  • American Social
  • Sugarcane
    • -good mojitos
  • Syndicate Kava Bar
    • -apparently had Dungeons & Dragons
  • Go check out some breweries

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• Dancing/Music:
  • La Victoria (Latin)
  • Ball & Chain (Latin)
  • Coyo taco - (Mostly great food, but has a speakeasy in the back)
  • 1-800-Luck (food hall/badancing)
  • El Patio
  • Wood Tavern
  • Gramps
  • Racket
  • Shots
  • Electric Pickle
  • Blackbird Ordinary
  • Someone better versed in this world probably knows more places

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• Mostly Just Food and Drink:
  • St. Roch Market - food hall
  • The Wharf - food hall
  • The Citadel - food hall
  • La Centrale - food hall
    • Italian food hall in Brickell City Center
  • The Butcher Shop
  • KUSH (burgers and beer)
  • Zak the Baker
  • Mandolin Aegean Bistro
    • -Greek food
    • -Great atmosphere
    • -outdoor seating
  • Soya & Pomodoro (cool decor)
  • Area 31
    • Rooftoop restaurant with panoramic view of downtown
    • Expensive
  • Fooq's
    • Persian/Mediterranean
    • Good lamb
  • Flagler street food court
    • -Old food court stuck in the 80’s
    • -a weird and poignant place
    • -Interesting though if you like old Miami
  • Azucar (ice cream)
  • Cafe Versailles
  • Chotu/Maska
    • Maska is fancy Indian food from first Indian with Michelin Star
    • Chotu is from same owner, but is Indian street food

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• Things to Do:
  • Lot 11 skatepark
    • -First legit skatepark in Miami
    • -Opens September 2019
  • Frost Science Museum
    • -Planetarium
  • Arsht Center for performing Arts
  • Perez art Museum
  • Olympia Theater
  • Miami Marlins Game
  • Villain Theater Comedy Show (if you like improv comedy……...)
  • Monthly Nerd Nite Events
  • History Miami
  • Bookleggers Library
  • Bayside
    • -Restaurants and shops and stuff
  • Design District
    • -Food
    • -Shopping
    • -La Victoria (Latin Dance Spot)
  • Wynwood walls

North Miami:

• Food/Bars:
  • Flanigan’s
  • Captain Jim's Seafood
    • Very fresh seafood
  • Pita plus
    • -best falafel
  • Bo Leggz BBQ
    • -One of the best BBQ places
  • Cafe Creme
    • -French Cafe with good quiche
  • Doral CityPlace
    • -promenade for restaurants and bars in Doral
    • -Miami improv Comedy Club
  • Gulfstream
    • -Casino
    • -Restaurants
    • -Horse Track
  • Steve’s Pizza
    • -Famous pizza joint
    • -They make their sauce with apple sauce in it (don’t ask why)

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• Things to Do:
  • Ancient Spanish Monastery
    • -Historical monastery moved from Spain to here. Cool place.
  • Top Golf
  • Museum of Contemporary Art
  • LOFTVR
    • VR arcade
    • Pretty awesome

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• Nature:
  • Oleta State Park
    • -Kayaking
    • -Mangroves
    • -Other nature stuff
  • Greynolds Park
  • Amelia Earhart Park
    • -Cable water skiing/wakeboarding
    • -Mountain Bike trails?
    • -Some other stuff

Gables area/Key Biscayne (I’m not too familiar):

• Food:
  • Daily Bread Mediterranean market
  • Cassola's
    • Giant pizza slices
  • Swenson's Ice Cream
    • Old fashion ice cream place
  • Bomabay Darbar
    • Good Indian food

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• Things to do:
  • Miracle Mile
    • -food
    • -shopping
  • Venetian pool
  • Fairchild Botanical gardnes
  • Vizcaya Museum/Botanical Gardens
  • UM game
  • Deering Estates
    • -Historical House
    • -Environmental Preserve

South Miami/Homestead:

• Food/Drink:
  • Schnebly Winery
  • Coopertown restaurant
    • -Froglegs/Alligator
  • Robert is here
    • -Best fruit stand in South Florida
  • Knaussberry farms

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• Things to Do:
  • Zoo Miami
  • Schnebly Winery
  • Fruit and Spice Park
    • -awesome place for exotic fruits
  • Coopertown Restaurant
    • -Airboating
  • Robert is here
    • -Best fruit stand in South Florida
  • Monkey Jungle
  • Arcade Odyssey
  • Coral Castle
  • Homestead Miami Speedway

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BROWARD:

• Food/Bars:
  • Stache Bar
    • -Hipster Bar
  • 26 degrees brewery
  • Funky Buddha Brewery
  • Tenth Level Tavern
    • -Videogame bar
    • -Retro games
  • Glitch bar
    • -also a videogame bar
  • Le Tub
    • -Burgers

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• Pop's Fish Market
  • Fresh fish market in Deerfield
• Cap's Place
  • Very unique restaurant on it's own island
  • Free ferry to the restaurant
  • Historic - Since 1920's
• The Rustic Inn Crabhouse
  • Best crab in Broward
• Bimini Boatyard
  • I actually don't like this place but it's the only place to get Bimini bread, now that Ernie's has closed down
  • Bimini bread is amazing
• The Floridian
  • -historic breakfast place in Las Olas
• La Bonne Crepe
• Cypress Nook
  • -Amazing German Breakfast place
• Bagel Snack
  • Best bagels in South Florida (Jewish grandmother approved)
• Jaxson’s Ice Cream Parlour
• Mai-Kai Polynesian restaurant
• Charm City Hamburgers
• Jack’s hamburgers
• Catfish Dewey’s
  • -Weird southern food, so if you want crawfish and frog legs…
• New River Groves
  • -Fruit Market
  • -Great Key Lime Pie
• J & J Farms
  • -Good seasonal fruit stand in Deerfield
  • -Hidden fruit and Spice Park Behind it, growing many exotic fruits
  • -small

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• Nature:
  • Deerfield Island Park
  • Quiet Waters Park
    • -Lakes and fields
    • -Ski Rixen (cable water skiing/wakeboarding)
  • Tradewinds park
    • -Horses
    • -Christmas Light show
    • -Butterfly world
    • -Great for picnics and the like
  • Billy Swamp Safari
  • Everglades Holiday Park
    • -Airboating
    • -Gator Wrestling
  • Markham Park
    • -Great foraging trails
    • -Saturday night has Astronomy Society/ set up telescopes for visitors
  • Fern Forest Nature Center
  • Anne Kolb Nature Center
  • South Florida Wildlife Center
  • Hugh Taylor Birch State Park Park
  • Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park
  • Shark Valley
  • Fakahatchee Strand (West Florida)
    • -Best place to see wild Panthers
  • Big Cypress National Preserve

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• Things to Do:
  • Las Olas
    • -Restaurants
    • -Night Life
  • Jazz brunch
    • -First Sunday of every month on Las Olas
  • Museum of Art
  • Museum of Discovery and Science
  • Ft. Lauderdale Boardwalk/Promenade/beachwalk/whatever it’s called
    • -Nightlife/Bars/Restaurants/Beach
  • Bonnet House
    • -Historical House and Garden
    • -Has a few wild monkeys
  • Broward College Buehler Planetarium
  • Butterfly world
  • Swap Shop
    • -A bunch of cheap garbage
    • -Go early on the weekends and it’s like a giant garage sale
    • -Good fruit market
    • -Drive in movie theater
    • -Terrifying children’s theme park that will kill your children
    • -They used to have a fucking circus in here…
  • iFly - Indoor skydiving
  • Festival Flea market
    • -Buy a bunch of cheap garbage from old Jews and eat a pickle
  • Tates Comic Book Shop
  • Panther’s game
  • Dania Jai-Alai/Casino
  • Hollywood Beach
    • -Great Boardwalk
    • -Lots of restaurants
    • -Very fun day
  • Hard Rock
    • -Casino
    • -Nightlife
    • -Restaurants
    • -Lots of other shit
  • Gateway theater
    • -Historical movie theater in Ft. Lauderdale
    • -Often have people doing Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Wilton Manors
    • -gay city
    • -gay pride festival
    • -great restaurants
  • Pompano Harness track
  • The Isle Casino
  • Xtreme Action park
    • -Go karting and an arcade. Good for kids.
  • IGFA Hall of Fame - International Game Fishing Association
  • Bass Pro Shops/Outdoor World
  • Sawgrass Mall
  • Flight Simulator
  • Water Taxi tour of Ft. Lauderdale
  • Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Museum

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• Deerfield Renaissance Festival
  • -Seasonal around February/March
  • -One of the US largest and most well known Renaissance festivals

PALM BEACH/BOCA:

• Food/Bars:
  • Funky Buddha - teahouse and brewery (lots of jam sessions and live performances)
  • -Blue Anchor Pub
    • -Old historical English pub moved piece by piece from England to Florida

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• Nature:
  • Gumbo Limbo Nature Center
    • -Sea turtle rehab and releases
  • Morikami Japanese Gardens and Museum
    • -restaurant too
    • -Great events calendar
  • South Inlet/Red Reef Park
  • Green Cay Wetlands Nature Center
  • Blowing Rocks Nature preserve
    • -Coastal Nature Preserve

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• Things to Do:
  • Rapids Waterpark
  • Mizner Park
    • -Restaurants, shitty art museum, ampitheater with some good acts
  • Funky Biscuit
    • -live music venue
  • Sugarsand Park
    • -Greatest playground in South Florida
    • -Great for kids
    • -Small Science Museum
  • Lion Country Safari
  • Boomers arcade
  • Palm Beach Zoo
    • -Very good zoo
  • Atlantic Avenue - Delray
    • -Great Nightlife
    • -Bars
    • -Restaurants
    • -Silverball Pinball Museum
    • -Blue Anchor Pub
    • -Old English pub moved piece by piece from England to here
  • Pumphouse/Reef road
    • -Used to be best surfing in all of south florida

THE KEYS:

• Key Largo:
  • Fish house restaurant
    • -key lime pie
  • John Pennekamp State Park
    • -Best Snorkeling/Diving
    • -Glass bottom boats
    • - Bioluminescent Plankton
  • Jules Undersea Lodge
  • Dolphin Cove

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• Key West:
  • Key Lime Pies
    • -Best key lime pie is Key West Key Lime Pie Company
    • -Blue heaven
    • -Kermit’s
    • -Blonde Giraffe
  • Sunset on Mallory Square
  • Ghost tour
  • Mel Fisher Museum
  • Aquarium
  • Fort Zachary
  • Hemingway House

ORLANDO/CENTRAL FLORIDA:

• Food:
  • Pom Pom’s
    • -Best sandwiches in Orlando (Mama Ling Ling’s Thanksgiving day Sandwich)
  • Lazy Moon
    • GIANT Pizza slices
  • Junior Colombian Burger
    • Great cheap burgers
    • The sauces make it awesome
  • Gringo Loco
    • Best taco joint around orlando
  • 4 Rivers Barbecue
    • -Great BBQ
  • Old Spanish Sugar Mill
    • -Great Pancake house

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• Nature:
  • Harry P. Leu Botanical gardens
  • Blanchard Park
  • Wekiwa Springs
  • Blue Springs
  • UCF observatory
  • Center for Great Apes: Great Ape Sanctuary
    • -Volunteer only
  • Bok Tower Gardens
    • -Beauitful historical Gardens with large tower in Lake Wales
    • -has Carilon (piano type instrument that uses massive bells instead of strings)
  • Little Big Econ State Park
    • -One of my favorite parks there
    • -Great Sunsets
    • -Rivers running through it

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• Things to do:
  • Universal
  • Disney
  • Legoland
  • Wonderworks
  • International Drive
  • SAK Comedy Lab
  • Magic Game
  • Solar Bears Game
  • Winter Park
    • -Park Avenue
    • -Central Park
  • Orlando Main Library
  • UCF sports games
  • Top Golf
  • Solomon Castle
    • -Weird place
    • -Just...it’s there. It’s just not that interesting…
  • Melbourne Zoo
  • Kennedy Space Center
    • -Go watch a rocket launch
  • New Smyrna Beach
    • -Shark bite Capital of the World
    • - Best surfing in Florida
  • Lakeridge winery

NORTH FLORIDA:

• Ichetucknee springs
  • -Blue hole dive
• Ginnie Springs
  • -tubing and getting drunk
• Camping in Ocala
• UF game
• Florida Caverns
  • -Cave system in North Florida
• I don’t know anything about Tallahassee, sorry
  • -FSU game

TAMPA/ELSEWHERE:

• Tampa:
  • Eat an inferior cuban sandwich
  • Ybor City
  • Yankees Spring training
  • Rays Game
  • Lightning Game
  • Busch Gardens

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• Elsewhere:
  • Tarpon Springs (Town) - big Greek Community and lots of Sponges
  • Three Sisters Springs
    • -Great Kayaking
  • Clearwater
  • St. Augustine
    • -St. George Street
    • -That fucking fort that everyone goes to in middle school
  • Naples
  • Cocoa beach
  • Daytona

SCUBA DIVING SPOTS :

• South Florida
  • Neptune Memorial Reef
  • Emerald Reef
  • Blue Heron Bridge
  • Pompano Drop-off
  • Vista Park Reef
  • John Pennekamp State Park
  • Biscayne Maritime Heritage trail
  • Half Moon Preserve
  • Molasses Reef
  • Tenneco Towers
  • The Jax (erojack)
  • The Spiegel Grove wreck
  • The Vandenberg wreck
  • SS Copenhagen Wrecl
  • Rapa Nui wreck
  • Ancient Mariner wreck
  • Captain Dan wreck
  • Jay Scutti, Mercy Jesus, Tracy wrecks (all doable in one dive)

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• North:
  • Devil’s Den
  • Blue Grotto
  • The Oriscany wreck

So this past weekend in Florida is a Vacation I’ll never forget.. its like one of those stories you hear on the News where you dream that one day something like this could happen to you. We’ll start On Saturday. The day was lackluster at best, you know those awkward family vacations where you feel out of place especially around your family... to make everything worse, we were in a state where we knew no one and finding some good bud was near impossible. We managed to get 2 fat joints on the Plane, hidden very well of course, but after that it was CBD from then on. It wasn’t the end of the world but, FUCK when you go a week without pot it feels like an eternity. It truly does make everything better especially when your stuck with family for the entire week.
So I had the Idea to rent a Scooter. (I HIGHly Recommend Renting a Scooter while on Vacation in SoFlo.) We cruised all up and down the coast from DeerField Beach all the Way down to the beaches in Fort Lauderdale. On the way, we went down Hillsboro Mile (which is where the story gets Juicy later into the Story) where the entire Mile is Full of Homes that only the 1% can afford. I Loved it, what an experience it was. I know I won’t have that kind of money anytime soon, but hey it definitely got me MOTIVATED!!! As we were Scootin past these homes, I pulled into a Vacant Lot in between 2 Multi Million Dollar homes and drove all the way up to the beach and parked. Man, what a view, It got me thinking, “how often do these beaches get used?” I didn’t see a single person in sight, I knew as of then that I wanted to explore this area of the beach before I leave to go back to the boring Midwest... so we left and continued south until we were in Fort Lauderdale.
We stopped and had Lunch at a small Italian place called Kisses of Italy. I ordered Chicken Parm that wasn’t even on the Menu (Best Chicken Parm Sandwich EVER) and my Gf had a Hotdog Sandwhich (3 Hotdogs on a toasted bun with toppings.) After a great Lunch we went back home to relax after a great Scooter ride.
Scroll forward about 6 hours and we are headed to the Casino because we can’t seem to get her family to do anything other than sit at home.. (were on vacation, so we don’t wanna just stay home) when we arrived at the Casino, we each took out $60 (TIP. Only take out $60, if you lose it GO HOME, if you gain $60 back, pocket it and DONT TOUCH IT, continue to play with your winning, until you either lose what you had profited or are ready to be finished) and headed straight to the Roulette Table. I started with my $60 and it was gone within 10 minutes and she put in $20 and it was gone after 2 minutes. (It was on a Red Streak and I refuse to play Red) We went outside to smoke a CBD Joint and are prepared to lose the rest when we go back inside. So when we go back in (after about 30 minutes) we see that the tables have turned and my LUCKY number 33 has been hit twice as well as a slew of other black numbers. We then put in the last $40 and got up to $200 in a matter of minutes. I think we had a number get hit 5 times in a row with $2-$3 on the number plus $75 on black. Needless to say we made our money back and profited $800 for the night! We left at 12:45am and got to sleep around 2:00am.
We woke up on Sunday at 7:30 to spend our last few hours on Florida on the Beach. (I didn’t wanna get outta bed) After sleeping an entire week on a crappy blow up mattress and having little sleep the night before, my body was telling me to stay in bed. We got to the beach around 8:30 and stayed until 10:00. I made sure we had enough time to go to the Spot I mentioned the day before. So we get home and hop on the scooter and head for Hillsboro Mile. (There is only 1 public entrance to this beach and its at least a 1/2 mile walk in the sand to get to where I wanted to go, so we took the scooter to the very last Condo Building before the Row of Mansions on Hillsboro Beach. All the parking spots were numbered so I just parked in the covered area by a door to get inside. There was only 1 sign that said no Trespassing unless your a resident, and there was a Chain going across 5 posts about 3 feet high. We hopped the Chain and were to the Beach within a minute or 2.
There wasn’t a person to be seen in the area, which is something I have wanted for awhile. Technically all Florida Beaches are Public Property, so we weren’t breaking any major rules. We started walking down the beach toward all the mansions. (I Recommend this walk for anyone that comes to the area. It’s extremely peaceful, just make sure you respect the beach and make it look better than when you got there.) As I got to about the 3rd Mansion I saw an elderly man in the distance and he saw me eagerly looking for Cool Seashells at the beach. When he got close he took off his headphones and told me that he saw a package on the beach a little ways down that had appeared to be drugs of some kind. He didn’t want to have anything to do with it, but seemed like he wanted me to take care of it. So we keep walking another 500 feet or so until we see what the man was talking about. It was a vacuum sealed black bag that was wrapped in multiple layers of plastic to form that of a brick. It had the Sun of Uruguay on the front (the Cartel Logo) it appeared to have been in the Ocean for a very very long time, but also appeared to be sealed still. (Keep in mind our flight leaves at 5:00pm and it’s currently 11:30am) so my GF takes off her shirt and we wrap it in the shirt so it doesn’t look Suspicious and we start walking back to the Scooter. At this point we had already made a video of finding it on the beach and we took a few pictures of it. (At this point No one knew about this except us, the old man was long gone by this point too) we put the brick under the seat of the Scooter and start heading towards her dads house. (Yes we’re just cruising around with a 30k brick in a cheap $500 scooter.)
When we get to the house we pull into the Garage and show them what we found, and they literary Flipped! They kept trying to tell us we were going to get a possession charge or something even worse. They wanted us to go find a trash can and go throw it away. I didn’t agree with how rash they were thinking. (Technically we didn’t do anything wrong, we took the package from the beach so someone else didn’t get their hands on it, and at this point we were pretty set on going to turn it in) So we unwrap it from the shirt and put it on a Walmart bag and bag into the Scooter seat and we start heading to the Police Station.
The Scooter has to be turned in at 12:00, and I didn’t wanna potentially get held for questioning and get a late fee, so we pulled over and call 911, I told them the short version of the story and they send a BCS out to meet up with me and we opened the Seat and he opened the bag and said that’s quite the find!! We told him where we found it and what our intentions were and he was SUPER COOL, we had a few questions about the brick and he answered all of them and talked to us about it. He took our info and asked us about our local college football Teams. All in all it was the Craziest way to end a Vacation.
I’ve been back now for 3 days and can say we are moving to Florida at the end of April. I’m an adventurer at heart and after finding the find of a lifetime it has motivated me to move to Florida to start our Fun Filled Life. I do want to say that I have never done this Product and know nothing about it. I know this could have been the Best/Worst thing that could have happened to me. I have also imagined so many other ways I could have handled it. Either way I’m happy it won’t end up on the Street even though I potentially gave up 30-100k worth of Pure Untouched Product. If you read this entire thing, I want to Thank you and welcome you to the Crazy Life I’m Living in. Follow to stay up to date with when I move and start searching the Beach again. Until then... Peace and Love
Link to imgur in comments

So this past weekend in Florida is a Vacation I’ll never forget.. its like one of those stories you hear on the News where you dream that one day something like this could happen to you. We’ll start On Saturday. The day was lackluster at best, you know those awkward family vacations where you feel out of place especially around your family... to make everything worse, we were in a state where we knew no one and finding some good bud was near impossible. We managed to get 2 fat joints on the Plane, hidden very well of course, but after that it was CBD from then on. It wasn’t the end of the world but, FUCK when you go a week without pot it feels like an eternity. It truly does make everything better especially when your stuck with family for the entire week.
So I had the Idea to rent a Scooter. (I HIGHly Recommend Renting a Scooter while on Vacation in SoFlo.) We cruised all up and down the coast from DeerField Beach all the Way down to the beaches in Fort Lauderdale. On the way, we went down Hillsboro Mile (which is where the story gets Juicy later into the Story) where the entire Mile is Full of Homes that only the 1% can afford. I Loved it, what an experience it was. I know I won’t have that kind of money anytime soon, but hey it definitely got me MOTIVATED!!! As we were Scootin past these homes, I pulled into a Vacant Lot in between 2 Multi Million Dollar homes and drove all the way up to the beach and parked. Man, what a view, It got me thinking, “how often do these beaches get used?” I didn’t see a single person in sight, I knew as of then that I wanted to explore this area of the beach before I leave to go back to the boring Midwest... so we left and continued south until we were in Fort Lauderdale.
We stopped and had Lunch at a small Italian place called Kisses of Italy. I ordered Chicken Parm that wasn’t even on the Menu (Best Chicken Parm Sandwich EVER) and my Gf had a Hotdog Sandwhich (3 Hotdogs on a toasted bun with toppings.) After a great Lunch we went back home to relax after a great Scooter ride.
Scroll forward about 6 hours and we are headed to the Casino because we can’t seem to get her family to do anything other than sit at home.. (were on vacation, so we don’t wanna just stay home) when we arrived at the Casino, we each took out $60 (TIP. Only take out $60, if you lose it GO HOME, if you gain $60 back, pocket it and DONT TOUCH IT, continue to play with your winning, until you either lose what you had profited or are ready to be finished) and headed straight to the Roulette Table. I started with my $60 and it was gone within 10 minutes and she put in $20 and it was gone after 2 minutes. (It was on a Red Streak and I refuse to play Red) We went outside to smoke a CBD Joint and are prepared to lose the rest when we go back inside. So when we go back in (after about 30 minutes) we see that the tables have turned and my LUCKY number 33 has been hit twice as well as a slew of other black numbers. We then put in the last $40 and got up to $200 in a matter of minutes. I think we had a number get hit 5 times in a row with $2-$3 on the number plus $75 on black. Needless to say we made our money back and profited $800 for the night! We left at 12:45am and got to sleep around 2:00am.
We woke up on Sunday at 7:30 to spend our last few hours on Florida on the Beach. (I didn’t wanna get outta bed) After sleeping an entire week on a crappy blow up mattress and having little sleep the night before, my body was telling me to stay in bed. We got to the beach around 8:30 and stayed until 10:00. I made sure we had enough time to go to the Spot I mentioned the day before. So we get home and hop on the scooter and head for Hillsboro Mile. (There is only 1 public entrance to this beach and its at least a 1/2 mile walk in the sand to get to where I wanted to go, so we took the scooter to the very last Condo Building before the Row of Mansions on Hillsboro Beach. All the parking spots were numbered so I just parked in the covered area by a door to get inside. There was only 1 sign that said no Trespassing unless your a resident, and there was a Chain going across 5 posts about 3 feet high. We hopped the Chain and were to the Beach within a minute or 2.
There wasn’t a person to be seen in the area, which is something I have wanted for awhile. Technically all Florida Beaches are Public Property, so we weren’t breaking any major rules. We started walking down the beach toward all the mansions. (I Recommend this walk for anyone that comes to the area. It’s extremely peaceful, just make sure you respect the beach and make it look better than when you got there.) As I got to about the 3rd Mansion I saw an elderly man in the distance and he saw me eagerly looking for Cool Seashells at the beach. When he got close he took off his headphones and told me that he saw a package on the beach a little ways down that had appeared to be drugs of some kind. He didn’t want to have anything to do with it, but seemed like he wanted me to take care of it. So we keep walking another 500 feet or so until we see what the man was talking about. It was a vacuum sealed black bag that was wrapped in multiple layers of plastic to form that of a brick. It had the Sun of Uruguay on the front (the Cartel Logo) it appeared to have been in the Ocean for a very very long time, but also appeared to be sealed still. (Keep in mind our flight leaves at 5:00pm and it’s currently 11:30am) so my GF takes off her shirt and we wrap it in the shirt so it doesn’t look Suspicious and we start walking back to the Scooter. At this point we had already made a video of finding it on the beach and we took a few pictures of it. (At this point No one knew about this except us, the old man was long gone by this point too) we put the brick under the seat of the Scooter and start heading towards her dads house. (Yes we’re just cruising around with a 30k brick in a cheap $500 scooter.)
When we get to the house we pull into the Garage and show them what we found, and they literary Flipped! They kept trying to tell us we were going to get a possession charge or something even worse. They wanted us to go find a trash can and go throw it away. I didn’t agree with how rash they were thinking. (Technically we didn’t do anything wrong, we took the package from the beach so someone else didn’t get their hands on it, and at this point we were pretty set on going to turn it in) So we unwrap it from the shirt and put it on a Walmart bag and bag into the Scooter seat and we start heading to the Police Station.
The Scooter has to be turned in at 12:00, and I didn’t wanna potentially get held for questioning and get a late fee, so we pulled over and call 911, I told them the short version of the story and they send a BCS out to meet up with me and we opened the Seat and he opened the bag and said that’s quite the find!! We told him where we found it and what our intentions were and he was SUPER COOL, we had a few questions about the brick and he answered all of them and talked to us about it. He took our info and asked us about our local college football Teams. All in all it was the Craziest way to end a Vacation.
I’ve been back now for 3 days and can say we are moving to Florida at the end of April. I’m an adventurer at heart and after finding the find of a lifetime it has motivated me to move to Florida to start our Fun Filled Life. I do want to say that I have never done this Product and know nothing about it. I know this could have been the Best/Worst thing that could have happened to me. I have also imagined so many other ways I could have handled it. Either way I’m happy it won’t end up on the Street even though I potentially gave up 30-100k worth of Pure Untouched Product. If you read this entire thing, I want to Thank you and welcome you to the Crazy Life I’m Living in. Follow to stay up to date with when I move and start searching the Beach again. Until then... Peace and Love

So this past weekend in Florida is a Vacation I’ll never forget.. its like one of those stories you hear on the News where you dream that one day something like this could happen to you. We’ll start On Saturday. The day was lackluster at best, you know those awkward family vacations where you feel out of place especially around your family... to make everything worse, we were in a state where we knew no one and finding some good bud was near impossible. We managed to get 2 fat joints on the Plane, hidden very well of course, but after that it was CBD from then on. It wasn’t the end of the world but, FUCK when you go a week without pot it feels like an eternity. It truly does make everything better especially when your stuck with family for the entire week.
So I had the Idea to rent a Scooter. (I HIGHly Recommend Renting a Scooter while on Vacation in SoFlo.) We cruised all up and down the coast from DeerField Beach all the Way down to the beaches in Fort Lauderdale. On the way, we went down Hillsboro Mile (which is where the story gets Juicy later into the Story) where the entire Mile is Full of Homes that only the 1% can afford. I Loved it, what an experience it was. I know I won’t have that kind of money anytime soon, but hey it definitely got me MOTIVATED!!! As we were Scootin past these homes, I pulled into a Vacant Lot in between 2 Multi Million Dollar homes and drove all the way up to the beach and parked. Man, what a view, It got me thinking, “how often do these beaches get used?” I didn’t see a single person in sight, I knew as of then that I wanted to explore this area of the beach before I leave to go back to the boring Midwest... so we left and continued south until we were in Fort Lauderdale.
We stopped and had Lunch at a small Italian place called Kisses of Italy. I ordered Chicken Parm that wasn’t even on the Menu (Best Chicken Parm Sandwich EVER) and my Gf had a Hotdog Sandwhich (3 Hotdogs on a toasted bun with toppings.) After a great Lunch we went back home to relax after a great Scooter ride.
Scroll forward about 6 hours and we are headed to the Casino because we can’t seem to get her family to do anything other than sit at home.. (were on vacation, so we don’t wanna just stay home) when we arrived at the Casino, we each took out $60 (TIP. Only take out $60, if you lose it GO HOME, if you gain $60 back, pocket it and DONT TOUCH IT, continue to play with your winning, until you either lose what you had profited or are ready to be finished) and headed straight to the Roulette Table. I started with my $60 and it was gone within 10 minutes and she put in $20 and it was gone after 2 minutes. (It was on a Red Streak and I refuse to play Red) We went outside to smoke a CBD Joint and are prepared to lose the rest when we go back inside. So when we go back in (after about 30 minutes) we see that the tables have turned and my LUCKY number 33 has been hit twice as well as a slew of other black numbers. We then put in the last $40 and got up to $200 in a matter of minutes. I think we had a number get hit 5 times in a row with $2-$3 on the number plus $75 on black. Needless to say we made our money back and profited $800 for the night! We left at 12:45am and got to sleep around 2:00am.
We woke up on Sunday at 7:30 to spend our last few hours on Florida on the Beach. (I didn’t wanna get outta bed) After sleeping an entire week on a crappy blow up mattress and having little sleep the night before, my body was telling me to stay in bed. We got to the beach around 8:30 and stayed until 10:00. I made sure we had enough time to go to the Spot I mentioned the day before. So we get home and hop on the scooter and head for Hillsboro Mile. (There is only 1 public entrance to this beach and its at least a 1/2 mile walk in the sand to get to where I wanted to go, so we took the scooter to the very last Condo Building before the Row of Mansions on Hillsboro Beach. All the parking spots were numbered so I just parked in the covered area by a door to get inside. There was only 1 sign that said no Trespassing unless your a resident, and there was a Chain going across 5 posts about 3 feet high. We hopped the Chain and were to the Beach within a minute or 2.
There wasn’t a person to be seen in the area, which is something I have wanted for awhile. Technically all Florida Beaches are Public Property, so we weren’t breaking any major rules. We started walking down the beach toward all the mansions. (I Recommend this walk for anyone that comes to the area. It’s extremely peaceful, just make sure you respect the beach and make it look better than when you got there.) As I got to about the 3rd Mansion I saw an elderly man in the distance and he saw me eagerly looking for Cool Seashells at the beach. When he got close he took off his headphones and told me that he saw a package on the beach a little ways down that had appeared to be drugs of some kind. He didn’t want to have anything to do with it, but seemed like he wanted me to take care of it. So we keep walking another 500 feet or so until we see what the man was talking about. It was a vacuum sealed black bag that was wrapped in multiple layers of plastic to form that of a brick. It had the Sun of Uruguay on the front (the Cartel Logo) it appeared to have been in the Ocean for a very very long time, but also appeared to be sealed still. (Keep in mind our flight leaves at 5:00pm and it’s currently 11:30am) so my GF takes off her shirt and we wrap it in the shirt so it doesn’t look Suspicious and we start walking back to the Scooter. At this point we had already made a video of finding it on the beach and we took a few pictures of it. (At this point No one knew about this except us, the old man was long gone by this point too) we put the brick under the seat of the Scooter and start heading towards her dads house. (Yes we’re just cruising around with a 30k brick in a cheap $500 scooter.)
When we get to the house we pull into the Garage and show them what we found, and they literary Flipped! They kept trying to tell us we were going to get a possession charge or something even worse. They wanted us to go find a trash can and go throw it away. I didn’t agree with how rash they were thinking. (Technically we didn’t do anything wrong, we took the package from the beach so someone else didn’t get their hands on it, and at this point we were pretty set on going to turn it in) So we unwrap it from the shirt and put it on a Walmart bag and bag into the Scooter seat and we start heading to the Police Station.
The Scooter has to be turned in at 12:00, and I didn’t wanna potentially get held for questioning and get a late fee, so we pulled over and call 911, I told them the short version of the story and they send a BCS out to meet up with me and we opened the Seat and he opened the bag and said that’s quite the find!! We told him where we found it and what our intentions were and he was SUPER COOL, we had a few questions about the brick and he answered all of them and talked to us about it. He took our info and asked us about our local college football Teams. All in all it was the Craziest way to end a Vacation.
I’ve been back now for 3 days and can say we are moving to Florida at the end of April. I’m an adventurer at heart and after finding the find of a lifetime it has motivated me to move to Florida to start our Fun Filled Life. I do want to say that I have never done this Product and know nothing about it. I know this could have been the Best/Worst thing that could have happened to me. I have also imagined so many other ways I could have handled it. Either way I’m happy it won’t end up on the Street even though I potentially gave up 30-100k worth of Pure Untouched Product. If you read this entire thing, I want to Thank you and welcome you to the Crazy Life I’m Living in. Follow to stay up to date with when I move and start searching the Beach again. Until then... Peace and Love
I’ll post the imgur link to the comments

First time cruiser here, I know I can park my car for free at many places like maybe Walmart or at the casino but I would like to know if there is a safe place that you guys park your car around fort Lauderdale for a cruise.
Also, is there any hotels that have discount if you go on a cruise or something related ?
Thanks

The whole package is $3,200 and I can show you my confirmation with room and casino comps. Won it on a earlier cruise myself. It leaves out of Fort Lauderdale on Dec 3rd or 10th (you chose) with an itinerary of Nassau, St Thomas and St Marteen. The entire transfer of the package would be done through Royal Caribbean. You also get to bring another guest for free.
http://www.theroyalpokertournament.com/
I'm open to offers but no lowballs please cause I can always go and ship it myself (hehe). Reply here or pm me if you have any questions.
EDIT: Fucked up the title but you can choose either date I believe but I have it booked on the 10th for myself as of now. And tournament entry is $1000 which is included with the package!

Recently the New Times printed the 100 Things to Do in Broward Before You Die. Here is the list in a convenient easy to read format. I think there are many things missing.
HELP ME MAKE OUR OWN REDDIT LIST Add your suggestions in the comments and we can compile our own list.
OR...just print this list and check them off one by one...
HOW MANY HAVE YOU DONE?
100 Things to Do in Broward Before You Die:

1. Spend an entire Sunday Funday getting wasted on Fort Lauderdale Beach. Bonus: Get your caricature drawn by Mickey…
   
2. Explore the Everglades.
   
3. Take a moonlit turtle stroll. June and July through Museum of Discovery and Science
   
4. Run for office.
   
5. See the sirens. Wreck Bar at the Sharaton Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel (formerly the Yankee Clipper) every Friday and Saturday at 6:30pm.
   
6. Swap Shop till you drop.
   
7. Ride the Jungle Queen.
   
8. Moon the Jungle Queen
   
9. Strip club tour!
   
10. Go to dinner by boat. Water Taxi can take you to 15th Street Fisheries, Hyatt Regency Pier 66, Bahia Cabana, Shooters…
    
11. Stand beneath the six-story-tall Rain Tree in Fort Lauderdale.
    
12. Feed the tarpon at 15th Street Fisheries.
    
13. Walk over the bridge on the 17th Street Causeway.
    
14. Find the banana hammock of your dreams. (Enjoy the shops and restaurants of Wilton Manors.)
    
15. Join Fort Lauderdale's Critical Mass. Meet on the last Friday of every month at War Memorial Auditorium at 7pm for a 14 mile route.
    
16. See a real IMAX movie at the Museum of Discovery and Science.
    
17. Take in a local movie and TV marathon. There's Something About Mary, Analyze This, Marley and Me, Dexter, The Glades, Rock of Ages, and Burn Notice — all have scenes filmed around here.
    
18. Whack golf balls into the lake at Aqua Golf Range in Pembroke Park.
    
19. Jump in the hot tub at Bahia Cabana.
    
20. Visit a psychic.
    
21. Hitchhike — by Jet Ski.
    
22. Explore the arts! Young at Art Museum, the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale, the Girls' Club gallery, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FATVillage, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, and more!
    
23. Take in the view at the top of the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six.
    
24. Make friends with retired NFL stars or Jamaican reggae stars.
    
25. Get your concealed weapons permit.
    
26. Bike around the finger islands off Las Olas Boulevard.
    
27. Check out the "World's Fastest Sport" at Dania Jai Alai.
    
28. Play on an adult kickball team.
    
29. Go night fishing.
    
30. Experience the Bergeron Rodeo in Davie.
    
31. Browse at Bob's News & Books.
    
32. Find the wild monkeys behind the Motel 6 in Dania Beach.
    
33. Host a hurricane party.
    
34. Cycle Party down Las Olas.
    
35. Play "Bitchy Bingo" with drag queens at Lips.
    
36. Fulfill your freaky fantasies at Scary Mary's tricked-out dominatrix dungeon, Chamber 7.
    
37. Drive like a local.
    
38. Ride your horse to McDonald's. The whole ranch-style town of Davie has a Western theme, and the Micky D's has a hitching post outside.
    
39. Flutter over to Butterfly World.
    
40. Become a regular at PRL Café.
    
41. Wakeboard at Ski Rixen.
    
42. Bet on a horse named Tripod at Gulfstream Park.
    
43. Catch a Fort Lauderdale Strikers game at Lockhart Stadium.
    
44. Become a Zumba instructor.
    
45. Try your luck at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.
    
46. Know your Native American history.
    
47. Sample a flight of local brews at the Funky Buddha in Oakland Park.
    
48. Enroll in Beer Academy. For $125, the six-week course at Riverside Market will teach you everything you need to know about homebrewing. For advanced beer nerds, there's Beer Grad School.
    
49. Learn who Jaco Pastorius is.
    
50. Eat fried chicken at Betty's Soul Food.
    
51. Do a poker run to Key West with biker pals.
    
52. Spend an entire day playing house at IKEA.
    
53. Down an exquisite vegan meal at Sublime.
    
54. Eat a burger at Le Tub.
    
55. Walk around with the wild peacocks on Rose Drive in Fort Lauderdale.
    
56. Lose hours in the Stonewall National Museum and Archives.
    
57. Stargaze at Buehler Planetarium & Observatory. Public shows start at just $4.
    
58. Ogle the future MMA stars at American Top Team.
    
59. Ogle the male strippers at Le Bare.
    
60. Enjoy a bottomless brunch at Tap 42.
    
61. Make a boat friend and anchor at the sandbar at the mouth of the New River.
    
62. Watch the Winterfest Boat Parade — from a boat.
    
63. Dine in the Dark. Market 17's waiters wear night-vision goggles to bring your food in a completely blackened room, where you proceed to eat with your hands.
    
64. Join a CSA (community-supported agriculture program).
    
65. Subscribe to a local alternative news source. If you really want to know what's going on around here, stick your nose in Broward Times, the Homeless Voice, the South Florida Gay News, and/or browardbulldog.org.
    
66. Master stand-up paddleboarding or kitesurfing.
    
67. Tour Fort Lauderdale — by gondola.
    
68. Spend Record Store Day at Radio-Active Records. (Every April)
    
69. Get naked! Check in at the Rooftop Resort, where it's clothing-optional. Couples day passes cost $40 on weekends. You can't unsee anything later, but that's the experience!
    
70. Camp out at Markham Park.
    
71. Switch the dial to pirate radio.
    
72. See the spiders at Secret Woods.
    
73. Go-kart at Boomers! in Dania Beach.
    
74. Smoke cigars and hunt cougars at Blue Martini.
    
75. Catch a Splatter-Rama double feature. Indie movie theater Cinema Paradiso sometimes shows underground horror flicks like The Toxic Avenger and Street Trash, plus other cool flicks year-round.
    
76. Find love at a "nerds singles mixer." If you're coupled up already, then just browse the wares at Tate's Comics and its upstairs Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery.
    
77. Cycle at the velodrome. Ride on the steeply banked oval track at Brian Piccolo Park — one of only three in the southeastern U.S.
    
78. Hang with the witches.
    
79. Learn to cook iguana tacos.
    
80. Crash a party at Rick Ross' mansion.
    
81. Unwind with a spa day at a gay bathhouse.
    
82. Do a brown bag winetasting at d.b.a./cafe. Wednesdays starting at 6:30, bottles of wines are poured from paper bags and diners try to guess the vintage.
    
83. Tailgate from 8 a.m. at the KISS Country Chili Cookoff in January.
    
84. Jump off a diving board at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Complex.
    
85. Fly kites atop the hills of Vista View Park.
    
86. See a show at Culture Room.
    
87. Run through the fountain at Hollywood Arts Park (preferably clothed).
    
88. Take Tri-Rail .
    
89. Ride the bull at one of the Cowboys Saloon's Ladies Nights, every Wednesday and Friday.
    
90. See a Florida Panthers hockey game at BB&T Center in Sunrise.
    
91. 3 a.m. breakfast at Lester's Diner on State Road 84.
    
92. Volunteer.
    
93. Have a Halloween adventure at the Howling Hammock at Birch State Park.
    
94. Prancercise!
    
95. Boogie down at Adult Skate night Thursdays at Galaxy Skateway in Davie.
    
96. Grill your own beef tongue.
    
97. Watch fire-dancers at Mai-Kai.
    
98. Sunday Jazz Brunch at Riverwalk.
    
99. Play hardcourt bike polo. At Fort Lauderdale's Holiday Park, players meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m.
    
100. Watch the cruise ships slide in and out of Port Everglades.