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• jeffrey.eric.fisher commented on Vacation
  Note: it most certainly was gone for a while. Google "ok maps" or "okay maps" and you will find a number of postings of how to do it during that, recently ended, dark age....
• Jerry commented on Vacation
  Speaking of the NHS 5 minutes after typing the diabetes comment/question I dived head first down 13 stairs, was removed to casualty, where they decided I needed my spleen out. Which they took. I then hemorrhaged, and lost 5 liters of blood. ( q: how do you loose 2Kg of unsightly tissue?). 3 days in ITU, then 3 in acute surgical care, now out. Note, it was a murder plot by my cat! Now on antibiotics for life... Anyway, still alive and still reading!!...
• aggray commented on Vacation
  I used to live in Orlando in the 90s, there's a ton of stuff to do around there though I'm not up on the more recent things. It looks like there are a lot of good suggestions above. In general, any sort of nature-based attraction like the various springs are good. Florida has a geology and ecology you won't see in Europe, and they get more locals rather than tourists. If you have time, booking an airboat ride is a lot of fun. Nothing quite like zooming through alligator territory on a boat propelled by a giant fan and driven...
• douglasi34 commented on Vacation
  TomTom for iOS stores all the maps locally and is thus a gigantic app (1.9GB for UK and western Europe on my iPhone) and buying overseas maps is easily done, they're all in the UK app store. I haven't tried it on an iPad mini or similar Android device, but in general I've found it to be much better than the dedicated TomTom I had before. It feels pricey for an app, but as far as I know it's cheaper than the equivalent dedicated satnav, and one less thing to carry around or charge....
• ARNOLD commented on Vacation
  No doubt OGH will be on his way home real soon now from Orlando, Florida and so is unlikly to need this sage advice on Alligators, but, just in case you should encounter the local 'gators Charlie .. however humane your intent DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MOVE THE ALIGATORS from the path of your car; apparently T Shirts don't work as field expedient blindfolds! Who'd have thought it? ... " Alligator Attack: Attempt To Move Alligator Backfires 1 day 7 hours ago, Barcroft TV A lucky motorist got away with just a SNAP on the wrist - after trying to...