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I think they've just sort of adopted the Allegiant way with the airport. If we don't have it, you don't need it. They've put all their eggs in that basket. Now that (at least I think) all the Euro airlines have bolted and they are down to just Allegiant and two rip-offs of Allegiant that have a whopping 20 planes between them, I think they've just locked into Allegiant as the future. Flair only flies around 9 flights a week to Orlando and only seasonally. Swoop only flies around 6 flights a week to Orlando. Swoop lists it as seasonal as well, but expanding. Both sites are extremely difficult to work, so that's an approximation. I'm just not a no-frills, nickel & dime airline sort of guy. I'm not super fancy, either, but I just can't stand the ultra cheap route. I was an adult the first time I flew and I certainly know it's expensive for families. If low-cost airlines existed when I was a child we might have flown on one. I just have no patience for an advertised cost of $49 which turns into $300 roundtrip with all the add-ons. The fees are insane on Allegiant: Seat selection fee Priority access fee Food & Beverage fees Electric Carrier Usage fee (this one is the absolute worst of them all as it's just a normal fee on every single segment on each ticket, but they lie about it and try to bump it out as something unexpected) Call Center fee (AKA real person fee) Checked bag fee Carry-on bag fee That doesn't even include normal fees that other airlines charge for changing tickets, cancelling, carrying a pet, etc. I've just moved to a point in life where I just want to buy a ticket and not have it broken down. I also was a little weirded out on Allegiant when a mom was sitting nowhere near any of her 3 children on the flight and kept walking around handing them snacks and PB&J sandwiches and checking on them. That's not normal for flying.

You'll wind up like La Guardia where you have to take a taxi to switch terminals. They have a shuttle, but we landed in B on Southwest and were flying out of C on Delta. We didn't book a tight layover, but we got delayed. The bus was pulling away when we came out and the guy working there said they were running slow that day. We actually took a cab to switch planes. Thankfully, we only had carry-on and we made it. Granted, most times we don't totally switch airlines, but it certainly has happened plenty of times. I was expecting a train, connector, or something other than some old janky busses.

Even as a kid I was big into song lyrics and due to a certain level of naivety I didn't understand adults didn't catch their meaning. There are a ton of songs that if you listen they aren't quite what they seem. My mom loved "Every Breath You Take" and I asked her why she liked such a creepy song. She was like "it's not creepy" and I was like "mom, it's totally creepy and you should listen to the lyrics."

I've never really looked at that airport from an aerial view, just a map view. They really painted themselves into a corner, didn't they? If they ever want to expand it's going to be really rough.

To me, JetBlue is 10x the airline that either Frontier or Spirit is.

It's the best

I've heard there is a certain art director that's looking for work. He's got some great connections to some fine art, really cheap!

That's hilarious. Yes. She said he does practice hate speeches in the back yard, which she thinks he's recording or something (she can't see if he is or not) for online. If they are outside whenever she hears the first slur or nasty thing, they fire up lawn equipment or turn their porch speakers up loud with random ethnic music. Her and her husband are both white, but for those times they are super into Bollywood showtunes, reggaetón, salsa, Canadian folk music, Native American chanting, yoga chimes, etc. Sometimes she just plays radio music just to get him copyrighted. She tells me a couple of their neighbors have started doing the same, so when they hear each other doing it, they play something completely different to create a cacophony of sounds.

I work with a man today that "went to Georgia once and I didn't think it was that different from Florida, so I just stay in Florida now." He's 50-ish and has left the state one time. He said 99% of his life has been in Orange/Osceola/Lake/Polk counties. Once or twice a year he goes to either coast for a beach visit. He's never been on a commercial plane or a boat that held more than a few people. He's never been in the ocean further than he could walk.

I had forgotten this included both sides of Jessamine. This supersedes the plan I was referring to. That one was for more food & drink places where F&D currently sits.

I broke up with a girl over NYC. She wanted us to move there and live some crazy dream in the Big Apple. We were semi-serious, but not serious enough for me to follow her there when I had no desire to go. We split and she moved there. She lived in Brooklyn and split a tiny place with 3 roommates for a long-forgotten (by me) now, but insanely high price. She couldn't afford that, but her parents were subsidizing some of it. She had a decent job, but later told me that it was the worst 2 years of her entire life. She moved back to Merritt Island after that and eventually wound up in Seattle working for a tech company that supports the mega-companies up there. She married a guy that works for one of them and has several kids now with granola names like (these are fake, but you get it) Tempranillo, Marzipan, and Epicurean. I only make up fake names because their real names might be the only ones of those names in the world. You can't have a Nathan, Becky, or Jessica up there!

I will briefly talk about the most insane train system I've been on in my life, the NYC Subway. It will be very brief, though. There isn't much you can say about the NYC Subway that movies and TV haven't shown over and over. The filth. Prior to riding the subway here, I assumed that (like so many other things in life) this was exaggerated for effect. Nope. I've been to NYC several times now and I've ridden the subway on most of those trips. It's disgusting and I can't even imagine what it was like in the 70s/80s when everyone says it was so much worse. It's like getting punched repeatedly in the face until both eyes are swollen shut, your mouth no longer works, and you can't breathe, but saying that's so much better than how it used to be. What? I saw rats. I saw human feces. I saw large amounts of blood. I saw so much normal trash that I thought I might be imagining it. The entire place is covered in what appears to be soot mixed with funk. The rolling stock. It doesn't even matter what kind they are. They look like they are on death's door most of the time. The people. I've never seen human beings like the people on the NYC Subway. Seriously. I felt like I was walking into a live version of Men In Black walking around down there. The floods. The first time I was down in the subway when it started to pour up top I had no idea what to expect. That water rolls down in sheets down those stairs. I've been in a lot of subways when it rained, but nothing like this. I guess it just doesn't have anywhere else to go, but it's crazy. One strong positive. We bought MetroCards and they were both easy to use and easy to refill. I'm not sure how long it will be until they change systems (or if they already have) but I've had mine for several years now and it's worked each time we've gone back.

If it helps my cousin calls her white vinyl fence the Plastic Berlin Wall. Her rear neighbor has everything short of an actual Nazi flag up in his backyard proclaiming his hatred for so many things and so many people.

One of my biggest issues with F&D was the janky seating. The new location should eliminate all of that. They opened that back porch a few years ago and it helped, but the temp could swing wildly back there. I'm not sure how much of the plan will actually happen, but there was a plan here once upon a time that showed all sorts of stacked container food places and fire pits and drinking areas.

Why are people using quotation marks around The Drake? Is it actually not called The Drake?

This always grinds my gears. When churches are run like they are for profit, they should be taxed like businesses.

The confusion is that I'm not trying to say I know about where it is going. I don't. I was just taking the map that @jgardnerucf made that was almost invisible because it was so faded out and made it easier to read. @prahabohemesaid they couldn't make out the image, so i made a clearer version. I used the clues of seeing where Big Lake Bryan was and where the hook of International was and grabbed something that wasn't so faded.

I have no idea and I'm not claiming to. I'm just saying that the doodle and the other map didn't match. I was pointing out where the doodle showed.

More over here

One on the East side and one down near Lake Nona would be nice, too.

Maybe I'm crazy but I don't think these are the same two locations. They are certainly close, but they aren't the same. @jgardnerucf's drawing is a lot more crude, but with the placement of Little and Big Lake Bryan it would seem their doodle is basically a little South of the intersection of 536/535 along the 417, while @codypet's looking West of there closer to I4 itself.

We do really need more than 2 TJ in a city this size.

Speaking of waffles and trains, I will next move to the Seattle transit system. I say waffles, because the first thing I thought of when I went to Pioneer Square Station was that it looks remarkably like the DC Metro. That's about the extent of the similarities. I will confess that while Seattle has a fairly extensive mass transit system, I didn't use a ton of it. My time there was limited, but I loved what I used. They have 5 basic components: the monorail, light rail, heavy commuter rail, streetcars, and busses. The monorail is a must ride because it's basically (kinda/sorta) like going to Disney a million years ago. I never rode on a Disney Alweg train, but these are insanely retro with a pure late 50s/early 60s design of a future that never happened. It's a really short trip, but one you should take. The light rail was fantastic at least the one in Seattle because I didn't get to Tacoma to try the other one. They have new Seimens rolling stock since I was there, but the Mitsubishi ones were still pretty nice. It got us around everywhere we needed to go and connected us to the streetcar. It ran from our hotel to the airport which was great. They are expanding the only line I rode and the one I didn't (Line 1 and Line T respectively) and adding a Line 2 right now. Line 3 is deep into engineering and a Line 4 is being studied. The best parts were that they seem to want to connect all the colleges/university sites, major employers, stadiums, airports, and the like together. Imagine that? Connecting people to places with mass transportation. How modern! I didn't ride the heavy commuter rail, but I'm insanely impressed by the commuter rail going over 80 miles from Everett, WA to Seattle and then to past Tacoma, WA on the other end. That's impressive and worth noting. It would be like the SunRail going from Daytona to Orlando to Tampa. There are currently 2 streetcar lines and 1 in the works. Another seems to be shelved for now. The rolling stock were a little weird and I didn't really like them, but they did the job. I looked them up and they are made by a Czech company which might explain the feeling that (while it was modern enough) I felt like I was in a car from somewhere completely foreign to me. I can't really define it, but I didn't care for the cars at all. I didn't ride the busses, but saw them everywhere around town. Seattle apparently used to have busses that did many things like ride rails and drive freely and run on gas and electric and batteries? That's funky and cool. The ones I saw looked like normal busses or if they were weird I didn't notice. Two thumbs up for a system that pales in comparison to larger systems, but was highly effective and useful. It also kept me out of the rain a lot.

Life is grand.