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FLORIDA · THE COMPARISON · KEY WEST VS SOUTH WALTON Both are Florida, both sell white sand, and the resemblance stops at the water temperature. Key West is a city at the far end of the Overseas Highway, 113 miles of bridges past Florida City, with its own airport and Mile Marker 0 standing on … Read more
FLORIDA · MIAMI VS ORLANDO · THE VERDICT Orlando International boarded 27,859,783 passengers in 2024, more than any other airport in Florida, Miami included. A large share of them land with the week already decided: the parks, bought in advance. Miami’s arrivals scatter instead, across a mainland grid of neighborhoods and a barrier island that … Read more
ORLANDO · AIRPORT TRANSFERS · MCO · SFB The wheels touch down and the question changes shape. Not what to see, but how to get from a terminal curb to a bed with your bags still attached to you. Orlando makes that question bigger than most cities do, because two commercial airports carry the name … Read more
ORLANDO · BEST TIME TO VISIT · 28.4° N Orlando does not have a winter so much as a dry half of the year. In an average November the airport gauge collects 1.79 inches of rain across three wet days. In an average June it collects 8.05 inches across 11.5. Same city, same parking lots, … Read more
FLORIDA · THE COMPARISON · MIAMI VS KEY WEST Both sit on the same warm Atlantic edge, and both get sold with the same photograph: pastel paint, water the color of a swimming pool, a sunset with an audience. On the ground they run at different speeds. Miami is a county of separate governments (the … Read more
ST. AUGUSTINE · FLORIDA · THINGS TO DO You have already picked St. Augustine. What is left is the schedule: which door opens at nine, which ticket lasts a week, which ferry costs nothing, and which tower turns a child away at the base. The old town rewards a day built around two federal properties … Read more
