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OCALA is one of the larger towns along this highway & is noted for its thoroughbred horse farms.
THE VILLAGES is a fast growing retirement community that focuses on active senior lifestyles such as golf.
FRUITLAND PARK is a small town that was one of the pioneers in the early days of the citrus industry.
LEESBURG was in the heart of Lake Cnty citrus production, at one time had some of the largest groves in the country.
CLERMONT is in the heart of thousands of acre of rolling hills that were at one time mostly planted in citrus. Home to
the Citrus Tower.
MINNEOLA is a small town on Lake Minneola just north of Clermont.
HAINES CITY was home to a large citrus growing & processing industry.
LAKE WALES is in beautiful hill, lake, & grove country. Home to Spook Hill & Bok Tower.
FROSTPROOF is a great name for a town that is in the center of South FL's citrus industry. Home of agricultural
pioneers Ben Hill Griffin & Latt Maxcy.
AVON PARK is centered around a large landscaped mall that hasn't changed in many years. Named for the river in
Shakespeare's home town. Old FL at its best.
SEBRING is one of the state's first planned cities. It is well laid out & has many historic buildings. Also a traditional
center for sports car racing.
LAKE PLACID was founded by the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System. It is now famous for its many murals &
caladiums.
PALMDALE is almost a ghost town now but was once home to Tom Gaskins & his cypress knee gallery & store.
MOORE HAVEN is a tiny town on Lake Okeechobee whose founders dreamed of it being the Chicago of the south.
CLEWISTON is the center of FL's sugar industry.
SOUTH BAY is an agricultural center.
ANDYTOWN is a ghost town where US-27 crosses I-75.
WESTON is a modern upscale town created in the 1990s.
HIALEAH is an old town noted for its early horse race track. It is now one of the largest cities in the urban Miami area.
MIAMI has become the de facto capital of Latin America. It is large, diverse, & has lots of fun things to do.

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1.aspx --- NEW ZEALAND LOCKDOWN REPORT--Graeme Lowen’s personal view of
his first 2 days of the New Zealand wide Lockdown for 2021. Wed, Aug 18th 2021.
Lockdown No 2. A community case of the Covid was located in the Auckland area
only to find that the male had travelled to the Coromandel Coast as well before being confirmed that he had the highly
transmissible Delta Variant which has been wreaking havoc in Sydney (Australia). Although the borders had been
opened between NZ & Australia, they were closed about 2 weeks ago. The country was set into a 3-day lock down.
There was a bit of talk about a Level 4 lockdown during the day, but it was announced on the 6 o’clock news. Then all
the shoppers let loose. My experience was that I had been out in the van just before 6 & I had gone past the New
World & there were about 20 cars there. I went home, washed both windscreens & put the van away. Came inside &
asked Maree if she would like me to go & get a couple of loaves of bread & a bottle of milk? She thought that would be
a good idea &, armed with a few dollars I drove back up to the New World only to see the carpark totally FULL. I keep
on driving through & went back home. We did not need the bread & milk that desperately. Later in the evening I got
an e mail from a client out Ohai way & he said that he did not see me in the New World at 5 past 6. I told him my
version of events & he had been in there at 6 & by 10 past the place was over full of excited people.
I never thought to ask if they were all stocking up on toilet paper like last year. My day went along the
lines of this Day One of Lockdown No 2. I wasted some time sorting stuff on the computer until I got sick of it after a
couple of hours. I then spent some 3 hours sorting out my bench with all the scrap metal bit on it. It was only some 6
weeks ago that Michael had it all cleaned up. After Lunch I went back out & made up 3 different wooden boxes to
replace the worn out cardboard boxes holding spare bits like leather & rubber gloves that I have brought home from
America. I even found me another pair of knee pads from 2016! Graeme continued with his report for several hours
including how he painted the boxes, wanted to ride his bike, storm water drain complaints, home plumbing projects &
his vast array of event pins he’s collected in boxes & jars for 30 years…