Florida has 2 oranges on their license plates (nummerplader).
With all the cars in Florida, that amounts to an awful lot of oranges!!
With all the cars in Florida, that amounts to an awful lot of oranges!!
But that was about all the oranges we saw, when we were here in December, traveling on the east coast. Even in the stores we had a hard time finding oranges from Florida (most of them were from California). (We also could not and cannot understand that oranges are outrageously expensive in a state like Florida. 69 cents (Dkk ca. 4,00) a piece!! That is twice as much as we pay in Denmark for oranges (from Spain and Israel). And Denmark has by far the highest prices of groceries in the entire EU).
Today we finally found the oranges in Florida. On our way out of Florida we went inland on the peninsula (halvøen) and saw a lot of orange groves (appelsinplantager). We stopped at one near Clermont, Florida where you could go into the grove and pick your own oranges.
We were on our way to Lake City, Florida where we will do a quick stop for the night, before heading west to New Orleans, which is the next destination (as far as the plans are right now). The trip from Fort Lauderdale to Lake City was 350 miles (ca. 550 km).
Written by JJ
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