Posts for Tag: florida

RHMF

Iketown

40s on 10th

Turkleton's post "40s Fridays" at http://www.jamsbio.com/user/turkleton/40_fridays/, was pretty funny and it reminded me of my own memory where...
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paullywanna

Monaca, PA

I'm A Zanzi-Barbar ian

Me and some of my closest friends totally took the greatest roadtrip from PA to FLO-RIDA last year. And I had my Billy Joel Greatest Hits collection or...
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giantrobot

Mission Viejo, CA

2 of us

Warped Tour that summer was a pretty good line up. That day in Orlando was hot, humid, and pretty disgusting. My favorite weather. I had sat through a lot of...
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a7xfan11

Clermont, FL

My First Concert

The concert was called Projekt Revolution. I just remember that I loved this song when they played it and everyone else in the crowd loved it too. It was...
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MaryBethEllis

Washington DC

The Spanish Station

In the (highly inaccurate, btw) movie retelling of The Right Stuff, a beach scene opens with the playing of "La Bamba." It is the late 1950's, and...
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FoRocker

Jacksonville Beach, FL

Nashvegas and The Kearney

This artist stands out to me in a huge way. When I hear this artist today I think about my road trips and the time I spent in Nashville visiting my friend...
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MaryBethEllis

Washington DC

Off the Road

Four days a week, I drove the entirety of the road from the Mouse to the sea-- Orlando to Cocoa Beach. I was simultaneously writing, working as a launch...
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MaryBethEllis

Washington DC

The Commute

The song was old but the commute was new.  Any commute was new.  I was Corporate Woman now, with short hair and an even shorter fuse.My little apartment...
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MaryBethEllis

Washington DC

Four on the Fourth

There were the four of us and this one album that Fourth of July. Two were painfully infatuated with exactly the wrong men. One ached for a child she...
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Starfighter

Chicago, IL

Superman

My Uncle Babe, a sweet but coarse man, would shout a string of curses at me whenever I asked to watch Superman (with Chris Reeve). From age five to about...
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Starfighter

Chicago, IL

Invincible

The Last Starfighter is one of my favorite 80’s movies. The theme song is up there with Star Wars and Indiana Jones. One July 4th, 1991 or 1992, my...
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alynn

Riverview, FL

That's For Me

First I heard the song then I saw the movie.  As a young girl just barely into my teens I was instantly hooked on two things—living in Florida and...
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NancyL

Roseland, NJ

The Gates of Heaven (aka Disney...

In 1977 over Easter vacation I visited Disney World for the very first time. We made the long car trip from New Jersey over two days and my cousin and I...
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Victoria Trix

Redford, MI

Sharing A Trip With Grandma

I was eight years old the first time my grandma and I made the trip from Michigan to Florida together, just her and I. This wasn't my first trip to Florida...
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mote5

Gainesville, FL

Winter Break in The Sunshine State

    I’m not really a person known for doing anything too outrageous, nothing wacky or zany or whatever silly sounding modifier you’d...
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helenatroy

Sarasota, FL

Solo Road Trip

Driving solo to visit my father in Florida from Connecticut early one summer, I vividly recall being somewhere along I-95--southern Nouth Carolina, I think....
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Abnative

Florida

Our Song

I have mentioned before I moved around a ton in my teenage years. Well on one of those ventures I happened upon a cowboy named Adam and took a shine to him....
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MusicIsMyWe...

Florida

Lord, Raise me up

If you haven't listened to Matisyahu, do so immediately. Do not pass go, do not collect $200 until you sit down, and hear this guy out. My lovely wife got...
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RHMF

Iketown

I-95

In the Spring of 1987, I took a great roadtrip with my roommate and still best friend Curtiss. We departed the University of Florida - Gainesville for the...
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RHMF

Iketown

Gator Gods in Naples

Back to my undergraduate days at the University of Florida in Gainesville. It's August 1985. My roommate and still best bud Brad (see "Humble Abode" post)...
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