Visiting Florida is almost a catch phrase for enjoying time at the beach and relaxing in a lush paradise. The cities are bright and sultry during the day, and at night they come alive with vivacious activity. The music never stops, and, as any good travel directory will tell you, there’s always something new to see and hear. It’s difficult to escape the ocean here, and even inland cities have a love affair with the sea that cannot be denied. It’s estimated that 1/3 of the planet’s population lives close to an ocean, so deep is its mysterious pull that we can’t seem to get away from it.
Stories of Atlantis, the mythical island of warriors that sank into the sea thousands of years ago, seem to experience rises and falls in popularity. There are plenty of possible and fascinating reasons for this, where it might come from a deep cultural need for belief in the ethereal. Whatever the reasons, the island that Plato wrote about continues to have a hold on our imaginations. Many of the theories of the city have been discounted as wishful thinking, but it’s still something rather charming to think about when staying at the state’s 5 star hotels. Florida is a great place for daydreaming.
There are plenty of things to daydream about, too. Over the past century, there have been lots of interesting stories about remnants found on the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Florida. Every find seems to bring out more claims that this is, indeed, the lost city of Atlantis , but they always warrant further investigation. There have been reports of glowing pyramids on the ocean floor, and plenty of other pyramid-shaped structures. Many of these have been verified in photographs as “something,” but the details of the something are hard to pin down. There are also reports of finding parts of old highways, with images of streets under the ocean from 12,000 years ago. Perhaps it is another renaissance of ideas and obsessions about the lost city, or perhaps it’s another dream to dream, but it still adds up to another great reason to visit Florida.
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