so i'm thniking i may as well go all out and cram as much stuff into my eyes as possible while i'm in florida


so links please.

to anything not a million miles away from gainesville



go!

....i'll start with one i found...


http://www.gatorland.com/


yay or nay?

personally nay. If you wanna see gators, there are plenty of tours that will take you out and you can see them in the wild (albeit without the gator wrestling).

whoops I didn't realise you could post not signed in, har.

you could head down to Orlando, it's like the Stupid Attractions capitol of the world

there's a cool alligator farm in st augustine. never been to the one linked, but the one in st augustine is pretty dope. like 20 bucks to get in, but they had albino gators. otherwise check out la chua trail here in gville on a sunny afternoon and see TONS of gators. its pretty cool.

if you wanna see gators in a park setting (as opposed to going into the swamp) I think that Silver Springs Nature Park is a lot closer to Gainesville. They got boat rides and monkeys too. I haven't been in years, but I loved it when I was a kid. I used to ride my bike there to swim in the river.

one time there i canoed right into this huge monkey gang war-- two opposing tribes on the opposite sides of the creek, screaming shit at eachother-- monkeys jumping out of trees into the creek, monkeys punching eachother in the face

i had eaten the silly mushrooms a little while before but i swear it was real

I believe it. When i was a kid, once in a blue moon a Monkey would wander away form teh river area and end up in the neighborhoods.

Now there are hardly any monkeys left. Some retarded beuarucrats (ps?) decided all the non-native species had to be gone by some date, but they couldn't just round them up and ship them out, so they sent teams out into the forest to capture and neuter all the male monkeys.

monkeys and aligators all at once sounds awesome

yeah, i well wanna see some animals, i do enjoy lookng at them.


what about other stuff? non animal stuuf?

and yeah, the closer to Gville the better

Depends what you're thinking of. Like Jeremy said earlier you could head to Orlando if you wanna do theme parky touristy stuff. Only about 3 hours away by greyhound bus. We did that for a bit after Fest last year.

holy shit. if i lived in a place where i had a chance to see wild monkeys and gators i would scream and pee. i cant believe theyd want to put a kibosh on all the money business; can't people see they're the comic relief of the natural world?

i dunno if i'd wanna do the theme park stuff, just get a slice of americana you know?
any ideas?

you want a slice of americana do ya?

hit the waldo flea market. thats some real americana for you. then go eat at adams rib co. awesome, awesome bbq. i'm not from the south either, but if i left here without tasting it, i'd be pissed.

More animal stuff right in Gville:

Santa Fe Teaching Zoo gives tours.

http://www.sfcc.edu/zoo/

Once upon a time I gave tours, it was fun.

And I once ran from this two-legged female gator and jumped a fence before she ripped my limbs off:

http://inst.sfcc.edu/~zoo/animals/gator.htm