keithkittleson

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Hello Florida members! I'm going on vacation down to Tampa next week to celebrate New Years with some friends in a way warmer place but long story short, after we celebrate I have my Harley down there and will be going riding down to key west is the main journey. You guys have any recommendations on cool places to stop/see on the way?? Basically open to anything or ideas for the trip! Help an ls1member out, thanks!

BrainFreezE

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If you are going to the keys on the Harley I would definitely tell you to hit up Hog heaven on Duval St, it's at the end at Key west, bunch of bikers go there, other than that the island is not that big you can cruise the whole place.

MasterTomos

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Check out Muscle Car City in Punta Gorda. Quite the private collection of GM's there. Some motorcycles as well.

ragtopz28

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^^Drool for hours^^

DANOZ28

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a bar / pub in the keys someday i'd like to checkout is "no name pub" in big pine, of coarse sloppy joes in key west. the travel channel had a place run by a biker i think named AL but i cant remember the name. cheers. i went to travel chnl & other key west bars highly recommended. virgilios , green parrot & hog's breath saloon.

keithkittleson

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Awesome, muscle car city looks like a for sure! I'll be in Tampa from the 31st-5th and traveling the rest of the trip until the 12th. Was thinking of staying in Cape Coral or ft Myers area for a night or two to relax an just venture around and prob check out the area and bar scene I'm sure lol. Have any recommendations on hotels that are not outrageous near the beach? Btw anybody wants to show me the ropes on here let me know! I'm 25 and my buddies dad is around 50 but we like to have a good time! I'll be leaving Tampa the 6th and slowiy making my way down and back from the keys. Flight leaves the 12th so I'll have some time to do whatever in between. More recommendations would be awesome! Maybe boat cruises or something? Sorry for the long write up ha

Count of Monte Crlo

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Hope I don't burst your bubble, but it is going to be about 50 degrees at night on new years in tampa. That is cold for us real Floridians haha, but its going to be like 75 during the day. If you are into gambling the hard rock casino is in tampa. There is no shortage of gentleman's clubs as well... If you were coming to Orlando I could help you more.

keithkittleson

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Lol it's going to be a high of -3 and low if -14 on New Years so 50 is amazing haha. I was in Orlando 2 years ago for New Years and the hotel we stayed at had a heated pool, everyone thought we were crazy for swimming in 50 degree weather while they were all bundled up. Im debating on going to Orlando maybe the 3rd an 4th. I have one buddy that lives there an we went to church street to some bar where girls were on the bar giving shots?? Lol bongos maybe?regardless was a fun time and free shuttle to an from our hotel. I'll have to check the hard rock out for sure an convince my buddy to go to strip clubs

Z28CamaroBubble

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Ahh, that sounds like Mako's. Were the waitresses dressed like school girls? If you head to strip clubs, pass Orlando and go straight to Tampa. It's like the **** capital of the east. Forget the popular places, like Scores and the Penthouse Club. Check out Deja Vu. There's a cheap full bar next door called Hammered Harry's. You can walk back and forth without a cover charge.

keithkittleson

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Yea that sounds right ha I remember no dress code because we couldn't get in other bars because my buddy was wearing shorts. Getting excited! Thanks for recommendations I'm writing everything down an planning it out.

Count of Monte Crlo

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Definitely Makos. There a lot of good bars in/near church street. If you come to Orlando on a saturday and want to see some cool cars head over to Old Town in Kissimmee. They have a cool car show/cruise down the brick roads every saturday that is cars from pre-1973. Not sure how the turn out will be considering it is right after the holidays, but when I used to go a lot there were regularly about 300 cars every saturday. There are also a ton of vintage themed shops, zip line, ect. Just google Old Town in Kissimmee.

MasterTomos

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Some parts of Minnesotta saw -60 with windchill last night...50 degrees would be 110 degrees warmer...I don't think he will be too upset

DANOZ28

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embarrass mn hit -40 temp last night, -34 lake vermillion, it was around -15 in the twin cities where im at. help, get me outta here! just about the same tonight!

BLK95-Z

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Man, that sounds like the dream vacation (except I'd be driving my Z) . Ive always wanted to cruise down to the Keys. Have an awesome time and post up pics!


^^^that sounds like a great idea. I'll have to remember that next time Im in Tampa

keithkittleson

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Made it back! Put on over 1200 miles on the bike an had a blast down in Florida, Ill give ya a quick summary of what we all did since people seemed interested. I flew in on the 31st and by the time we got out the airport and got to my friends down in Riverview it was about 10pm so we just had a bonfire at his place and there were fireworks on the river for New Years. Went to clearwater beach for two days after, stayed at the Hilton and was right by Hooters which was a plus! We had a couple pitchers of beer at Hooters and we ended up going on a dinner boat cruise around Clearwater. The Starlite it was, only ended up being like 60$ after food and drinks and food was awesome. Then we went to a bar called shephards? They had an outdoor band that was really good and no cover charge and drinks were reasonable priced. Would recommend that bar for sure was a blast! After clearwater we started heading down to the Keys on the Harleys. We went through the everglades and stopped at Billie Swamp safari, was pretty neat did a fan boat ride and like a jungle tour package. Bunch of buffalo, gators and other animals. We stopped in South Miami for the night and in the morning went to Monkey Jungle. Bunch of apes and monkeys and they had little shows they did, was pretty neat. After the jungle we rode straight to Key West, it was about 40-45mph the whole way down. Awesome bridges and many small shops and restaurants/resorts the whole way down, was nice going a little slower so we could see everything. We lucked out on the hotels down there, cheapest we found was about 240 a night, but my friend I went with is a retired Navy Chief so we called Fly Navy base and they had rooms for us. Only ended up being 60 a night on the base which was awesome because the deal was I'd pay for the hotel rooms the whole time if he hauled my bike down so it saved me a bunch of money! We stayed there for 3 days and went down to Duval street every night. Reminded me of Vegas almost but without the slot machines, always something going on for entertainment, music, strip clubs, you know it they got it haha. We went parasailing and a dinner buffet cruise around the keys one of the days. Unlimited booze and food for 2 1/2 hours on the boat with a band and what not. It was like $110 a piece to parasail and the boat dinner cruise in a package, which is really good deal because you eat anywhere down there you're going to spend just as much with drinks. THe main bar we hung out at was Cowboy bills honky tonk saloon lol, they had an awesome band and a mechanical bull and 2$ PBRs all night! After the keys we headed back and stopped in SOuth Beach Miami for the night. I like looking at all the ferraris/lambos/rolls royces and realizing I need a better job haha. We just walked around on the Beach went swimming and ate at a really good Mexican place down there. I have a bunch of pictures I took on my facebook if you guys want to take a look at them just add me on there. Just search my name Keith Kittleson. Sorry for the long write up but if you have any questions let me know! Until next time Florida..

99wssixm6

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Sounds like a good Florida trip!

Count of Monte Crlo

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I live here and it sounds like you had a better time here than I ever have haha.