Member's BLOG: Thursday January 12th 2012
Evening all, sitting here watching more top gear. Makes me wish i could get a car and some track and just have some fun, no consequences:p
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 3,226
From: Lakeland, Florida
Lou I am not sure how to describe Lakeland. As far as size I'm not sure. I live here but have not seen a lot of it. We have six exits on I-4 devoted to access to Lakeland and to be honest it really only gives access to the North side of the city. Lakeland is more of a bedroom community for those traveling east to work in Orlando or west to work in Tampa as we are about 40 miles away from each. There isn't a large employer to keep us in the city. Lakeland wants to be a big city like Orlando and Tampa but it just hasn't happened. We do have a very nice downtown and we have a monthly car show the first Friday of the month. I don't go because I'm working. The City of Lakeland is constantly promoting downtown and it is nice. It is the only city that I have lived in that has what our downtown has to offer and cattle ranchs, farms, and orchards all within it. We have some of the big city problems with gangs and drugs, but overall it is a nice little city. We have a lot of square acreage but a lot of it is undeveloped and rural. In my neighborhood I have cows, donkeys, horses, goats and other live stock and I'm no more than fifteen minutes from downtown. I think Frank lives on the south side and I'm on the north side.
Zach the new bike looks good, but i just looks like it would be a stretch to the handle bars. I think top gear presenters have every man's dream job with all the cars they get to play with
