Reddit mentions: The best southern us general travel guides

Over 1,000 Miles from Big Cypress to Pensacola, through the sparsely populated center of the state. I have had the privilege to walk hundreds of miles on this trail and despite my deep love for mountains, remains one of my favorite places to hike.

I prefer north Florida (Ocala/Osceola are great for weekends/week long trips) but south Florida too has its own unique beauty often overlooked. There are many side trails, the Ocean to Lake Trail (65 miles) being a great one during the dry season.

I recommend dry season especially for anything south of Orlando, this year it is still very wet. For the south, elevation seems easy once you've walked in knee to waist deep black waters for hour after hour.

Some good books:

Hiking the Florida Trail: 1,100 Miles, 78 Days, Two Pairs of Boots, and One Heck of an Adventure

The Florida Trail - Guide book, though I'm not sure how dated it is, I still have my well worn copy and gives great side trails easily missed. Like the sink hole in Ocala with water basins still intact from the early prairie homes.

Regional/local maps are cheap and durable from the Florida Trail Org website.

Some things to be aware of: Water is vital and not always easily to come by, especially during dry season. Prepare as you do wherever you are. Iodine tablets in your emergency kits even with a filter.

Some things I've learned: It can get cold in Florida. So cold my 2 liter froze solid. It can also get hot, and calling it quits for safety was one of the best lessons I ever relearned. When it's 90 degrees, you're very low on water, the well is broken off at the base and your next source is 24 miles out, be smart. There are A LOT of bears in Florida, most are shy, but hang your packs like you do anywhere else there are bears.

Some of my favorites, with some favorite dishes:

• Prato (widowmaker pizza, meatballs, whatever is new on the menu) - Park Ave, Winter Park
  
• Kappo at East End (chirashi sushi bowl) - Audubon Park
  
• Txokos Basque Kitchen (get the kalimotxos coca-cola and wine braised pork belly) - Audubon Park
  
• Taipei 101 (get the spicy fried catfish meal box) - UCF Area
  
• Cask and Larder (get the nashville hot chicken and waffles) - Winter Park
  
• Cappadoccia (get the hand made gyro platter with rice and turkish bread) - Semoran
  
• Vietnam Cuisine (pho, and banh cuon rice crepes stuffed with mushroom, pork) - Mills 50 District
  
• Sushi Pop (anything, try the khao sao curry noodles with duck confit) - Oviedo
  
• The Pharmacy (garlic butter rock shrimp) - Sand Lake, Restaurant Row
  
• Croissant Gourmet (the croque monsieur topped with fried egg, almond croissant) - Park Ave, Winter Park
  
• Bull and Bear (pasta explosion, gnocchi, tomahawk ribeye) - Disney area
  
• Chuan Lu Garden (authentic sichuan - cumin lamb, spicy fried fish, hand pulled noodles) - Mills 50 District
  
• Border Grill (authentic street tacos) - Kirkman / Universal area
  
• Del Dios (pizza) - Colonialtown / Orlando Exec Airport
  
• Others: Hollerbach's Willow Tree, Sushi Tomi, K restaurant, Le Coq au vin, Chef Eddies, The Rusty Spoon, Mamak, Donut King
  
  source: i food blog at www.tastychomps.com and http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0762781165

We'll be coming down I-75. So, it would be nice to find a trail towards the top half and/or west of the park. [The book] (http://www.amazon.com/Kentuckys-Land-Arches-Robert-Ruchhoft/dp/0940029006/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334535002&sr=8-1) you recommended looks good. Thanks.

Not a documentary, but I really enjoyed this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Moss-Curtain-Savannah-Stories/dp/0972422404/ref=sr_1_3/139-0960788-4008518?ie=UTF8&qid=1518101778&sr=8-3&keywords=murray+silver


It was written by the upstart mayoral candidate and active SavNow commentor.

We don't need you. We don't want you. We are tired of having to slow progress to a crawl for the "heritage not hate" nutballs. If you aren't one of them, fine. Great, even. You're welcome to come join the sane people in the other parts of the country. But the south can fuck right the fuck off as far as I'm concerned.

The south is full of willfully ignorant buffoons who consistently vote against their own best interests and the best interests of the rest of the nation. And then we're forced to bail you out of the fiscal consequences of your bad decisions.

Pls go, The South.

Better Off Without 'Em

1. Don't rely on it. It's no subway system. It can easily take two or three hours to get someplace that would take 15 minutes by car.
   
   
2. There are virtually no restrictions on swimming (that I'm aware of) that I've seen. There's people who go out during hurricanes, if that's the sort of thing you mean. The water is usually fine for swimming as long as there's sand on the beach. Basically, if you can comfortably walk to the waterline barefoot, you'll be fine. As far as glass, use common sense. Just don't leave it, or make it obvious. Bring solo cups and put the glass right back into the cooler and nobody will say anything.
   
   
3. Don't buy anything (aside from food) on the beach and you won't pay tourist prices. Gimmicks and souvenirs are where the tourist prices are.
   
   Find your way over to North Perry Airport and get a helicopter tour. You'll never regret it.
   
   Finally, Grab a Frommer's Guide and come enjoy!

lemon_meringue wrote:

I recently finished the book Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern manifesto for Southern Secession and I highly recommend it. This article was a scant outline compared to that book, but it did hit some of the high points.

After having grown up in SC, living in the People's Republic of Oregon for several years, and now ensconced in the Northeast, I can safely say that the South really is a separate country from the rest of the US. All that really remains is to make it official.

I don't know if it's at all possible, but that part of the country is stubbornly holding a lot of social progress hostage. I'm all for it, myself.

To be fair the rest of the country has been trying to get them to modernize for over a century. But they thwarted attempts to improve education, even scorning the dreaded "book learning". They refused to participate in the industrial revolution. Used armed force to prevent modernization.

They are now alien. Separate them from the United States and look at them statistically and they look more like some 3rd world African nation than they do Europe.

Good look at North/South stats. https://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Without-Manifesto-Secession/dp/145161666X

I recommend this book: Better off without 'em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

The author humorly suggests that the South secede, to mutual benefit. Open emigration and citizenship on both sides of the new border for a period of time.

The U.S.A can be free of third world tactics that undermine its worker protection, environmental protection, and public infrastructure.

The C.S.A can be free of the wimpy libruls, turrists, abortionists, gun grabbers, sodomites, the ACLU, and critical thinkers.

This is an excellent book that could be of some help. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762760079/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_hohGzbZ4WQ41P

Some that I love:

• The World That Made New Orleans by Ned Sublette
  
• Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales by Robert Tallant, Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer
  
• New Orleans Then and Now by Richard and Marina Campanella
  
• Eat Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Unique Food Culture of the Crescent City by Michael Murphy

There's an interesting book on this subject (ok, not just California but still an entertaining read.)

There are books on culture like Culture Smart. Britain - Culture Smart!. Then there are books for newcomers to various cities Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in Washington, DC

As far as web sites are concerned just look for expat forums.
http://www.thelocal.fr/
http://www.thelocal.de/

I bought this book for a friend when she first moved to DFW and she loved it! It's a lot of the 'typical' stuff, but she's had a blast crossing things off the list.
https://smile.amazon.com/Things-Dallas-Fort-Worth-Before/dp/1935806572/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=things+to+do+in+dallas+book&qid=1564309596&s=gateway&sr=8-4

You might enjoy this book.

May interest you.

It's a good read...

https://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Without-Manifesto-Secession/dp/145161666X

This should help:
http://www.amazon.com/Day-Trips-Raleigh-Durham-4th-Traveler-ebook/dp/B004F9PX8Q/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1426683263

Not so sure about that...

A native Austinite claims credit for it:
http://www.amazon.com/Keep-Austin-Weird-Guide-Side/dp/0764326392/ref=la_B001JS89N2_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381814267&sr=1-1

And it was adopted by the Austin Independent Business Alliance.

I distinctly remember that phrase going strong before Californian & Dallas hating was en vogue.

Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

ha ha but unironically (the opening paragraphs of this book are a chilling and all-too-credible prophecy)

Relevant: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0061QB16Y/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0061QB16Y/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

This book seems more and more prescient

I have this book and it has tons of ideas!

http://www.amazon.com/Day-Trips%C2%AE-Raleigh-Durham-Getaway-Traveler/dp/0762760079/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407253036&sr=8-1&keywords=day+trips+from+raleigh+durham

https://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Without-Manifesto-Secession/dp/145161666X

Or this

Better Off Without 'Em

https://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/0743284461

https://www.amazon.com/Republican-Brain-Science-Science-Reality/dp/1118094514

https://www.amazon.com/Insane-Clown-President-Dispatches-Circus/dp/0399592466

https://www.amazon.com/Idiot-America-Stupidity-Became-Virtue/dp/0767926153

https://www.amazon.com/Republican-War-Science-Chris-Mooney/dp/0465046762

https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellectualism-American-Life-Richard-Hofstadter/dp/0394703170

https://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Without-Manifesto-Secession/dp/145161666X/

https://www.amazon.com/How-Fight-Conservative-Daniel-Kurtzman/dp/140226576X

It took me less than 2 minutes to find all of these

Can confirm

If only.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762773286/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_nUHAzbB1SBZHQ

Pacific Northwest irony bros are way ahead of you.

Shit like this is why I never had the time of day for Chapo Traphouse.

Better Off Without 'Em

great book, excellent idea, i am all for the south just splitting off and having its own regressive theocratic shitpile of a society and not sucking up our taxpayer money anymore

let them turn it all into toxic waste dumping grounds for big business. idgaf anymore, they are a blight and they really just need to gtfo forever

Aren't those who support the losers, losers?

You could mail him a copy of the following:

http://weeklysift.com/2014/08/11/not-a-tea-party-a-confederate-party/

Or send him a copy of:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451616651?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00

Either will be worthwhile reads for your own sanity. It grates on me becasue our families did something NO ONE IN HUMAN HISTORY HAD DONE: we were the first people, along with England to outlaw human slavery. Hundreds of my family gave their lives and their health to make sure this happened.

It's uncomfortable to discuss, but that doesn't make it any less real. Most liberals are possessed of a vicious hatred for Republican voters. Most of it is in the privacy of personal conversations, a great deal of it is in the various corners of the comments sections of the internet, but an appreciable share of it is enshrined in halls of our booksellers.

From the general impugnment of Republican intelligence to talk of forced secession of red states from the union.

I'm not guessing when I tell you that the personal conversations that I have with the most strident liberals in my personal networks make no bones about their contempt for Republican voters.

And you know exactly what I'm talking about.