Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Here & There Column 7-16-13

Gas Prices And A Vacation

  Whew.......great to get away on vacation but following 13 days away from home and several thousand miles of traveling there comes pounding in your head that familiar saying "it's great to be home."
  Love to see what's going on in other states and traveling through Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and northern Florida gives one an entirely new outlook on life in these United States. 
  Took our vacation this year to an entirely different section of the State of Florida as we soaked up the sun, ocean breeze and the beautiful ocean waters of the Gulf of Mexico at Panama City Beach Florida.
  If you have ever been there you can easily see that there is a notable difference from the Atlantic Ocean eastern section of Florida.
  The outer sections of Panama City Beach are much different then downtown which we found presented almost a carnival atmosphere where spending your hard earned buck is easy to do. 
  I will say that the restaurants we ate in downtown were some of the best I have ever experienced. Definitely a nice vacation location and maybe even a nice place to live (at least for the winter months).
  A vacation like this is so much rewarded when you have a two-bedroom, three bathrooms, kitchen, dining room and living room condo that allows you to step right out onto the beach or enjoy your morning coffee and breakfast on your balcony overlooking the Gulf of Mexico.
  Of course in traveling by car to Florida you get a pretty good picture of what is going on with gasoline prices. The further you travel south the lower gas prices get. It is New York taxes on gasoline sales that tells the difference here? What a pleasure to pull up to a gas pump and pay $3.13 a gallon and we even drove by a gas station selling regular gas for $2.97 a gallon.
  We and many others complain about our high gasoline prices but nothing ever gets resolved resulting in lower prices at the pump. 

                                                  -30-

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Gasoline prices like this in Georgia make vacation traveling a lot easier to take.

                                                            
  

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