2001 FLORIDA a trip revisited by heart 22 years later

that year my daughter's mother retired and to celebrate we decided to go around Florida with our daughter who would have especially appreciated the parks of Orlando, Disneyworl and many others including Universal Studios we were due to land in orlando but we were in full turbulence so the plane headed south towards Miami BUT returnED after an hour back to orlando as the weather had improved all that disturbed my two women while the americans were totally relaxed and they called home to report the delay we rented a comfortable car at the airport and already the next day we started visiting the Orlando parks which cost us 150 dollars a day for three people, but it was worth it, we had a lot of fun, especially seeing the tricks that cinema adopts to make movies then there was the fabulous EPCOT park, always part of Disneyworld, which is the place where creativity, imagination and the international union of countries are celebrated. The park pays homage to humanity's great achievements and discoveries, such as technological innovations The symbol of the park is Spaceship Earth, a gigantic geodesic sphere and one of the main attractions of the par and it was part of the Future World, today there is also another section. We traveled the Atlantic coast stopping at Cap Canaveral or Cap Kennedy where we visited the huge hangar where space rockets are assembled and a large shed with many rockets used in the space race. There was even a cinema that told the whole story. Two other places visited were Daytona Beach, a meeting place for motorcyclists who gather several times a year in this location that hosts the fast motorcycle race of the NASCAR circuit.Then there is a second Hollywood, a beautiful holiday resort with a large beach where the so-called snowbirds arrive, i.e. the birds of the snow, practically the Americans and Canadians who flee the cold climate to take a vacation or retirees to settle down. It's the turn of the beautiful Miami, with its skyscrapers, internal canals, bridges, the long sandy beach of Miami South Beach with the pastel-colored houses of the early twentieth century, bars, restaurants where you can dine by candlelight, discos of all types and the house of Versace, the beautiful villa on whose entrance door the great designer was killed, now been converted into a luxury hotel. We visited the Everglades national park in the swamps with the crocodiles but we did not travel on fast motorboats that seem to fly over the water because they were too noisy, so we chose to run on a less noisy and slow boat. We went to visit the beautiful Vizcaya villa outside Miami, in the nineteenth century style with splendid antique furniture, a beautiful garden by the sea and even stone gondolas. We then took the highway that connects all the Keys, the islands that end in Key West, the southernmost point of the USA, then the Hemingway's house, the sunset that brings together all those present who enjoy admire performances by various artists before the sun hits the sea. Going back we arrived in Tampa, a military port with very high skyscrapers, headquarters of banks including Citibank which was my partner when I worked at the bank and I spoke to it every day. Then St.Petersburg a beautiful location with many canals, luxurious yachts and elegant villas and an exceptional museum with gigantic paintings by Salvator Dalì who in recent years was protected by a family of American billionaires who in exchange kept part of his masterpieces. Finally Naples a beautiful seaside resort with a beautiful almost white sandy beach and beautiful luxurious villas. Not bad for Florida, today the fourth richest and most populous state after California, the state of New York and Texas and decisive for the presidential elections as we have seen several times, its governor Ron de Santis could become the next president in the elections of next year unless Trump who also lives in Florida in the Mar a Lago villa fails to prevail, Biden or Robert Kennedy Jr. permitting.