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Are we asking too much?
Posted: Tue March 9, 2004 12:41 AM UTC
OK, so the partner is coming to visit in April and we're taking a road trip from Boston to Florida. Wouldn't it be nice to find some place where we have:
Jungly undeveloped countryside
Budget accommodations
Canoeing or kayaking possibilities
Few or no other tourists
Is it possible? We're both living in big cold busy cities and looking for some warm green silence.
Are we crazy?
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Re: Are we asking too much?
Posted: Tue March 9, 2004 08:31 AM UTC
You aren't asking for too much, but you are working against economic realities. Your question can be rephrased to ask: Where can we go where there is little in the way of visitor infrastructure? You want to go where few have tread, which implies that there are few reasons to set up a commercial business to meet your travel needs.

That doesn't mean impossibility. I would suggest that you take a look at the Appalachian Trail, which has relatively recently been completed into an uninterrupted trail. Bill Bryson has a good book out on it. Granted, you're not suggesting that you want to walk most of the way to Boston, but portions of the trail should meet your desires. Kind of a Route 66 trip, with a tipping of the hat to non-mechanized travel.

Then there are the lowlands of the Carolinas, which provide a very off-the-beaten track sense of history, waterways, and simpler uncluttered times.

After New York City, follow the coast instead of the Interstate. The Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachussetts coasts are spectacularly beautiful, unspoiled and uncrowded.

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Re: Are we asking too much?
Posted: Tue March 9, 2004 11:48 AM UTC
There is also the Everglades

Joan

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Re: Re: Are we asking too much?
Posted: Tue March 9, 2004 12:50 PM UTC
Thanks for the responses.
I had planned to follow the coast pretty much from the end of Delaware onwards--Chesapeake bay bridge, North Carolina barrier islands, Georgia sea islands and so forth. But I have sentimental reasons for wanting to make it to South Florida and I'm wondering how overdeveloped it's become since my grandparents lived in a very jungly and quiet place on the gulf coast near Englewood.
I'm not really looking for total back of beyond, but I'm not looking for resorts and walls of 20 storey hotels either.

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Re: Re: Are we asking too much?
Posted: Thu March 11, 2004 12:57 AM UTC
Some parts of the west coast of Florida are still kinda "jungly". The Nature Coast runs roughly from the Big Bend down to around Crystal River along US 19. Lots of kayaking, canoeing, salt water fishing, etc. are available up and down that road and it's still pretty much undeveloped and away from it all. Cedar Key is a nice central stop right in the middle.

Tell me what you want to see/do exactly and I'll try to give you more specifics...

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Re: Re: Are we asking too much?
Posted: Thu March 11, 2004 02:55 AM UTC
Thanks mr Zen:
We seek Old Florida kitsch and that sort of salt watery palmettoey sticky heaty non-airconditioned bug infested Florida-ness that really tells you you're somewhere that's not just a hot Connecticut.

OK, decades ago my grandparents lived in a house on stilts right on the beach, and everybody had a boat for deep sea fishing, and anytime you got in the car you traveled across metal grid bridges over shallow estuaries and at night the bugs were so loud you couldn't sleep. The yard was full of tropical birds and the bathroom had a resident tarantula.
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nature coast
Posted: Sun March 14, 2004 03:19 PM UTC
The Nature Coast is slightly less tropical, but it's much less spoiled than most of south Florida (besides the deep Everglades).

Try this website for some details:
http://naturecoastcoalition.com/

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