Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:01:17 -0400, HK wrote:


The guy's place out at the Shenandoah is along the river and between two
heavily wooded mountain ranges. For me, the draw there is the river.
It's pretty clean, usually fast running, and offers just terrific
canoeing and smallie fishing.

Wow, never thought you had smallmouth there. Outside of bluegills and
rock bass, best fighting fresh water fish - ounce for ounce.
You know, I've always wanted to live by Chesapeake Bay, for a lot
of reasons. Just seems like a rich place in many ways.
If I can't convince my wife to move to Florida, that's the second area
I'll work on.

--Vic


We lived in Florida for more than five years, in NE Florida, just
outside of St. Augustine for most of the time. I enjoyed the weather,
which was moderate for Florida (bearable heat, and a spring and fall),
the beautiful uncrowded beaches, the fishing, et cetera. Culturally, it
was a wasteland, and if you went a bit further north, you were
surrounded by simple minded religious zealots.

South Florida on the Atlantic Side is a great place to visit in the
winter, but too hot for me in the summer. The other south Florida, on
the Gulf side, is just too hot and muggy for me most of the year, but
some parts of it that haven't been overdeveloped are pretty.

The Keys are nice, too, so long as you have a good way to get the hell
out of there if a hurricane is coming. A seaplane is best.