There’s some cool looking stuff there! I will have to keep this in mind. Thanks!
Most online talk I see about Cape Coral is somewhere in between meh and suburban dystopia, so it doesn’t sound like it has much to offer other than the owls. This is why I didnt drag my wife the 3 hours there from Tampa where we were staying. We stuck to the Tampa ZooQuarium instead. They had some owls, no burrowing though.
And Tampa is a nice area, I lived in Sarasota for a bit. I wouldn’t waste 6 hours unless on a charter boat fishing!
And they have so many adventures, they used to have was a urban camping adventure. I doubt they still have it how insane the drugs have gotten.
I did a hybrid hiking and canoeing. I’ll have to dig out my journal I know the mileage was insane but we were all about 15-17 years old. I think I was the oldest. So no pain in the mornings, not like now lol
If I did it again, and I will I would do the desert or snowshoe. Something completely foreign to me.
We had a really great time. We rented a convertible and drove all around in Tampa, over to everywhere between Tarpons Springs and Fort DeSoto, and took a day trip up north a bit to Panasoffkee to do the gator fan boat tour. We did take a half day fishing trip on the Gulf, but we got there during a rare cold spell, which was still nice to us coming from PA, but we caught 5 tiny fish between the 2 of us.
I’m guessing urban camping is technically illegal in a lot of places now as an anti-homeless measure. As sad as it is, learning safe urban camping skills might not be a bad thing to teach younger people as wealth inequality continues to increase and the job market gets weirder and home values keep reaching unattainable heights… 😐
I’m with you on doing something totally out there. I just took a private sailing lesson for the first time last week and that was mindblowing. Once I got shown the basics, I was shocked how instinctive and natural it felt. I thought it would be somewhat physically demanding and tricky to keep the wind, but it was so peaceful and there was so much feedback from the boat it was like it was telling me what I had to do. One of my favorite recent experiences.
As for the urban camping it was the late 80’s early 90’s so it was a lot simplier then for pulling off that adventure.
Sailing eh? I would love to give that a go. Not in the best place for it on the border of VA and WV. But we have great mountains and moonshine!
The other adventure I want to give a go before I’m too old is a tear drop trailer and hit all 50 states. Low dough, LP tank stove and hit the grocery stores. Planet Fitness membership to get showers and just roll for year. Spend a season in Slab City. Go live on a Res in the Dakotas (I have enough Native to qualify). Hang out w/ the Cajuns for a spell. Just soak in all that this country has to offer :)
It was our honeymoon trip, so we crammed in a lot of adventures to remember!
I enjoyed being a kid in the 80s/90s. Being a kid seems rough nowadays.
We had the sailing lesson at the widest part of the Hudson River, by the Tappan Zee Bridge. It’s about 3 miles across I think he said. Having a place to do it was one of the things that delayed trying it for me for so long too. I hear WV has great whitewater, and we’ve taken a trip along the mountains in VA stopping at all the caves. Natural Bridge gave us their old hours on the phone, so when we showed up, they apologized and gave us a private tour of the cave since they did tell us they would be open when we were arriving.
Your camper trip sounds quite epic! I’d love to see you do it!
I have never done white water in WV, I did the Ocoee River in Tennessee a bunch of times when I was living in Atlanta. That river is a blast as its man made for the 1996 Olympics so you can go mid to insane depending on the path.
Funny you mention the caverns, you were right where I live now :)
As for being a kid these days it has to suck beyond imagine. Play in the yard Karen calls the cops. 10 years old and a bunch of your friends and you want to walk to the store. Guess who’s back calling the cops because she feel your too young to do anything.
Too many camera’s to get you in trouble. People are completely unhinged, image playing “ding dong ditch” now days? You would get shot. Cops are over the top, so you get away with nothing.
No neighbor mechanic wrenching in the yard to teach you how to work on cars and fetch beers for him and his buddies. How I learned to be a shade tree mechanic lol. Shit paper routes are done by ADULTS now, same with dishwashers. Insane!
The angry curmudgeon is coming out to bitch that these kids can’t have any fun!
It is a beautiful part of the country that I feel a lot of people overlook. I always enjoy visiting or passing through there.
My sisters-in-law have a lot of kids, and their lives just seem so locked down and programmed. They’re MAGAs, so I dunno how much that has to do with it, but it seems every year I see less and less kids out playing in my neighborhood, and everyone is just on phones now or playing MMOs or whatever. I don’t know enough to say it’s bad, and since I don’t have any kids I try not to stick my nose too far into people’s business, but it seems the very opposite of my childhood.
Tangent time: I was listening to a YT vid this morning with a long time Sesame Street creator and it was about how the type of childhood Sesame Street was created for no longer exists, and how it has tried to change to accommodate the modern childhood. They talked about how in the 70s-90s (pre-mainstream net I feel is a good cutoff point) that growing as a child was about finding your place in a community, as you were out and about, learning who was around you and finding your role. Now Bluey is the most watched show by parents and children. I’ve watched some Bluey, and it still has some community gathering, but it’s a lot more home-centric, with parents having a more active and direct role entertaining and teaching kids, whereas our parents set us free upon the neighborhood to learn from our sense of adventure and making mistakes. I’d love to have had a Bluey childhood, but one of my big concerns, especially with the rise of things like the parents’ rights movement, is my childhood sucked, and to this day, I really don’t like my parents. I was stuck with them wayyyy too much even with the freedom to spend most of the day outside and away from them. If I was around them every moment I wasn’t at school, I probably wouldn’t be here today. So I worry about kids that don’t get that unsupervised time away, because that and the time with my grandparents was my only real happiness.
The other fun random thing in the video was a brief side chat about micro-generations. They said there is a large number of I believe 5-6 year olds that are having a massive problem in that they refuse to wear shoes! Having a bulk of their formative years at home due to COVID, they just never acclimated to having their feet caged up all day and refuse to keep shoes on. I found that so interesting!
Oooo…dogsledding adventure! 😄
There’s some cool looking stuff there! I will have to keep this in mind. Thanks!
Most online talk I see about Cape Coral is somewhere in between meh and suburban dystopia, so it doesn’t sound like it has much to offer other than the owls. This is why I didnt drag my wife the 3 hours there from Tampa where we were staying. We stuck to the Tampa ZooQuarium instead. They had some owls, no burrowing though.
And Tampa is a nice area, I lived in Sarasota for a bit. I wouldn’t waste 6 hours unless on a charter boat fishing!
And they have so many adventures, they used to have was a urban camping adventure. I doubt they still have it how insane the drugs have gotten.
I did a hybrid hiking and canoeing. I’ll have to dig out my journal I know the mileage was insane but we were all about 15-17 years old. I think I was the oldest. So no pain in the mornings, not like now lol
If I did it again, and I will I would do the desert or snowshoe. Something completely foreign to me.
Dog sledding does sound pretty amazing too :)
We had a really great time. We rented a convertible and drove all around in Tampa, over to everywhere between Tarpons Springs and Fort DeSoto, and took a day trip up north a bit to Panasoffkee to do the gator fan boat tour. We did take a half day fishing trip on the Gulf, but we got there during a rare cold spell, which was still nice to us coming from PA, but we caught 5 tiny fish between the 2 of us.
I’m guessing urban camping is technically illegal in a lot of places now as an anti-homeless measure. As sad as it is, learning safe urban camping skills might not be a bad thing to teach younger people as wealth inequality continues to increase and the job market gets weirder and home values keep reaching unattainable heights… 😐
I’m with you on doing something totally out there. I just took a private sailing lesson for the first time last week and that was mindblowing. Once I got shown the basics, I was shocked how instinctive and natural it felt. I thought it would be somewhat physically demanding and tricky to keep the wind, but it was so peaceful and there was so much feedback from the boat it was like it was telling me what I had to do. One of my favorite recent experiences.
Sound like it was a great trip!
As for the urban camping it was the late 80’s early 90’s so it was a lot simplier then for pulling off that adventure.
Sailing eh? I would love to give that a go. Not in the best place for it on the border of VA and WV. But we have great mountains and moonshine!
The other adventure I want to give a go before I’m too old is a tear drop trailer and hit all 50 states. Low dough, LP tank stove and hit the grocery stores. Planet Fitness membership to get showers and just roll for year. Spend a season in Slab City. Go live on a Res in the Dakotas (I have enough Native to qualify). Hang out w/ the Cajuns for a spell. Just soak in all that this country has to offer :)
It was our honeymoon trip, so we crammed in a lot of adventures to remember!
I enjoyed being a kid in the 80s/90s. Being a kid seems rough nowadays.
We had the sailing lesson at the widest part of the Hudson River, by the Tappan Zee Bridge. It’s about 3 miles across I think he said. Having a place to do it was one of the things that delayed trying it for me for so long too. I hear WV has great whitewater, and we’ve taken a trip along the mountains in VA stopping at all the caves. Natural Bridge gave us their old hours on the phone, so when we showed up, they apologized and gave us a private tour of the cave since they did tell us they would be open when we were arriving.
Your camper trip sounds quite epic! I’d love to see you do it!
Well that sounds like a great honeymoon vacation!
I have never done white water in WV, I did the Ocoee River in Tennessee a bunch of times when I was living in Atlanta. That river is a blast as its man made for the 1996 Olympics so you can go mid to insane depending on the path.
Funny you mention the caverns, you were right where I live now :)
As for being a kid these days it has to suck beyond imagine. Play in the yard Karen calls the cops. 10 years old and a bunch of your friends and you want to walk to the store. Guess who’s back calling the cops because she feel your too young to do anything.
Too many camera’s to get you in trouble. People are completely unhinged, image playing “ding dong ditch” now days? You would get shot. Cops are over the top, so you get away with nothing.
No neighbor mechanic wrenching in the yard to teach you how to work on cars and fetch beers for him and his buddies. How I learned to be a shade tree mechanic lol. Shit paper routes are done by ADULTS now, same with dishwashers. Insane!
The angry curmudgeon is coming out to bitch that these kids can’t have any fun!
It is a beautiful part of the country that I feel a lot of people overlook. I always enjoy visiting or passing through there.
My sisters-in-law have a lot of kids, and their lives just seem so locked down and programmed. They’re MAGAs, so I dunno how much that has to do with it, but it seems every year I see less and less kids out playing in my neighborhood, and everyone is just on phones now or playing MMOs or whatever. I don’t know enough to say it’s bad, and since I don’t have any kids I try not to stick my nose too far into people’s business, but it seems the very opposite of my childhood.
Tangent time: I was listening to a YT vid this morning with a long time Sesame Street creator and it was about how the type of childhood Sesame Street was created for no longer exists, and how it has tried to change to accommodate the modern childhood. They talked about how in the 70s-90s (pre-mainstream net I feel is a good cutoff point) that growing as a child was about finding your place in a community, as you were out and about, learning who was around you and finding your role. Now Bluey is the most watched show by parents and children. I’ve watched some Bluey, and it still has some community gathering, but it’s a lot more home-centric, with parents having a more active and direct role entertaining and teaching kids, whereas our parents set us free upon the neighborhood to learn from our sense of adventure and making mistakes. I’d love to have had a Bluey childhood, but one of my big concerns, especially with the rise of things like the parents’ rights movement, is my childhood sucked, and to this day, I really don’t like my parents. I was stuck with them wayyyy too much even with the freedom to spend most of the day outside and away from them. If I was around them every moment I wasn’t at school, I probably wouldn’t be here today. So I worry about kids that don’t get that unsupervised time away, because that and the time with my grandparents was my only real happiness.
The other fun random thing in the video was a brief side chat about micro-generations. They said there is a large number of I believe 5-6 year olds that are having a massive problem in that they refuse to wear shoes! Having a bulk of their formative years at home due to COVID, they just never acclimated to having their feet caged up all day and refuse to keep shoes on. I found that so interesting!