Florida : Part Two

Written By Gavin Dowse

RACECAR! Wooooohooooo

But first...

Florida is known for a handful of things like the aid in George W. Bush's election, old people and their food. Their food is diverse and personally aside from tried and true southern bbq this might be my favorite place to eat. Its a mixture of a lot of different cultures as well as a bunch of different people. Daves family was kind enough to gift us hungry boys with a lot of awesome food, a place to crash and point us in the right direction. 

Our first night we spent here Mrs. Kos took us to Deck 84 in DelRay and it was so close to Daves grandparents where we were staying. The cuisine was a mixture of bar and seafood. PERFECTO MOTHER TRUCKERS. I love cheeseburgers and seafood, I opted for a mixture of the both, a best of both worlds situation; a Mahi Mahi Tuna Special. A wonderfully crafted and perfectly portioned meal that was awesome, I just wished it was a tad more raw though. Deck 84 is a open bar with a restaurant that had live music and a wonderful atmosphere. This place was truly perfect for just about any situation. Dessert was followed by Kilwins Ice Cream and it was wonderful. I'm also positive that if mike hadn't eaten 7.5 tacos he would have enjoyed it so much more. His selfcontrol is so bad. 
My phone died and well heres a picture that I snagged. 

Our next days were spent at the beach, the mall and playing Mario kart double dash. Might I remind you that double dash was the best of the series minus the newest number eight and its 11 years old. Rant aside DelRay beach might be one of my newest favorite places on earth. The town at least during this part of the season is a wonderful mix of locals and tourists, it makes it feel like a perfect hole in the wall. Its not overly populated with rich and old people, there is plenty to do and the weather this time of the year is perfect. It doesn't seem to hit that 100% humidity factor at 7am and I could not be one bit more happy about it.

A really awesome burger joint we went to was called BurgerFi. Now I wouldn't consider myself a burger aficionado by any standard but this place was it. I've personally never have had a shake shack or an In & Out burger but I cannot imagine a better place to eat. The menu was larger and in charge unlike the hometown favorite of Five Guys and the quality of food was so much nicer. The Five Guys at homes food is unbelievably greasy and has such a limited menu. BurgerFi was like a mixture  of atmosphere and wonderfully crafted burgers. ALSO they had the  greatest onion rings I've ever seen/eaten.

Stay Tuned For Part Three!

Florida : Part One

Written By Gavin Dowse

Well it all started a couple weeks back with the proposition of traveling to Florida with my two friends Michael and Dave. Dave's grandparents have a house in DelRay and the five day trip was on its way. Of course it was a no brainer to spent some well deserved time off with my friends but the dilemma soon came up about how to get there; Drive or fly?

Dave, Mike and I are currently saving money in efforts to travel the country in the summer of 2015 and this would be an amazing pilot adventure. Now I've driven to the wonderfully crazy state of Florida several time with my family and all up and down the east coast but usually I would drive for short 3-4 hour spirts. This time the option of taking Dave's 2011 Ford Explorer was a very tempting choice. It had everything that my truck didn't; MPG, A/C, Mufflers etc. Now this was plan A as we wanted to experience 24 straight hours cannon balling the trip. Almost a right of passage to Florida with a experience of driving all by ourselves for 3000+ miles. Unfortunately our parents made such hard moves to end that as they knew we wouldn't sleep and cannon ball the shit out of the trip. I eventually forked over the plane money.

SO our alternative was to fly and well GAVIN HATES FLYING, a lot. the whole idea that you're in a clunky tin tube with two extremely powerful thrusters is a terrify idea especially now that I'm much older. Apposed to baring myself into a vegetable state I decided to bite the bullet and fly without it. Wishing all of my family and small animals a last farewell I set off to Albany International Airport in hopes that the plane and its crew wouldn't disappear like the Malaysian flight.

Upon entering the entering the airport it was littered with problems because I'm a big fucking idiot. As everyone who really knows me I love camping as well as the outdoors, and well the last time I went hiking I took a bunch of stuff. Flashlight, food, pocket knife.... I'm more than confident that ya'll can guess which item that I completely forgot to take out of my backpack before entering the TSA line. Got my favorite knife confiscated and not only soon after I forgot the boarding pass in the TSA shenanigans.... AWESOME WAY TO START THE ADVENTURE.

Stay tuned for the rest of the trip!