What is your heat threshold?

What!!!?

Where is Orlando?

I thought everyone knew where Mickey Mouse lived.

Yeah, it's in Florida USA but contrary to the esteemed krunch it only takes me an hour and forty minutes to get to Tampa.

Here's a quick look at Orlando.

 

I guess it depends on driving from where and to where and also how fast one drives. Suggesting '3 or less hours' is a padded, safe number.

I live north and west of Tampa. Saying Tampa, FL, gives a ballpark idea of where I live. From where I live, driving the speed limit and driving to the southeast edge of Tampa and, then, driving to the Sanford-Orlando airport is about 150 minutes, plus or minus other traffic and stopping to get a soda drink or gasoline and having to slow down or stop because of car wrecks.

 

Orlando is where my Mom and two of my sisters and their families live. Mickey Mouse is from Annaheim, California.

Orlando is about 1000 miles from where I live. It's an 18 hour drive if I stop only for gas and speeding tickets.

 

Granted, he may come from Annaheim ... but he lives in Orlando. oke:

BTW, a fun fact ... Disneyland will fit in Disneyworlds' parking lot.

 

And Disneyland was opened in 1955 by a fellow named Walt Disney.

Disneyworld was opened in 1971 by a fellow named Roy Disney. Walt having been deceased for 5 years by then. If I'm not mistaken, only the similarly sized Magic Kingdom is Disney. The rest is merely owned by the same company.

I've never been to either. When I'm in Orlando, I visit my family and patrol with the local Guardian Angels. It's nice to see that Church street on the other side of I-4 from all that tourist stuff has been cleaned up. That was the most HELLACIOUS crack town I have EVER seen, back in the middle 90's.

 

I agree completely, Church Street has made a huge turn around.

My wife remembers Church Street from the late 70's, (she spent her teenage years in Orlando) and saw it sink into the mire it had become.

BTW, just poking fun about Disney, both are great places for family fun.

I personally prefer Gator Land though.

 

That sounds like my kind of place! Do they have anything to eat there? I mean for the PEOPLE to eat.

 

back to topic; its funny that last week it was so damn cold and this week its been hot, 21 C yesterday and 18 C today - I got sun burnt

 

I can see why you misunderstood me. Something lost in translation. When I mentioned Polar Regions, I actually meant regions inside the Arctic Circle/Antarctic Circle. Polar region is somewhat a synonym with land inside the Arctic/Antarctic Circle in Finnish. What I meant to say that there are no inhabited areas inside the Antarctic Circle while the Arctic Circle slashes trough US, Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia (of Iceland I am not sure and the map is poor anyways, since it barely shows how the circle touches Finland: one third of our land should be inside).

Of course one cannot compare the Circle areas an sich since we have the warming effect of the Gulf Stream and the actually cold air during winter usually blows from Siberia, some hundred kliks south from the Circle and not from the Arctic. Actually before the Soviets stole our Petsamo, the only seaport that was free from ice all the year was situated on Arctic Ocean. In comparison all our ports in Baltic Sea (some 1000 kliks more south) freeze over every winter.

Still both Circle areas enjoy some common phenomena such as Aurora Borealis, Kaamos and Midnight Sun.

I could play dumb and say that I do not know where Florida is (somewhere near Cuba? Right?), but that tells me as pretty much as saying to you that Pärnü in Estonia is somewhat 130 km southeast from Tallinn. Thanks for the effort anyway.

Häh? I never knew that Mickey was from Florida. Anyways thanks. That was far more useful, now I know that Orlando is somewhat in the middle of the east coast of Floridian peninsula.

Neither have I. Only visited the French Euro Disney twice.

 

North Polar Circle does not cross or touch Iceland. (Well, maybe some minor rock or little island of Iceland is over the circle, but not the main island.)

[EDIT] removed double 'circle' word.

 

Ahem. If you check the map I posted, the Arctic Circle (red thick line) seems to cover most of Iceland, which is the small dot right east from Greenland. So I would hazard a guess that one third at least of Iceland is north of Arctic Circle.

 

I prefer temps in the low to mis 20s also. I hate +30. And I get alot of that where I currently live.

 

Well, I've checked the map which I have hanging on the wall of my room, then some other map in a book. And I did that BEFORE posting :chick:

You may take a look at this, even more detailed map from wikipedia.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Map_of_Iceland.svg

[EDIT] Hehe, indeed, there is a minor island right on the circle, as I've foreseen.

 

Ah. Grimsey, my savior...