What is Bliss like in Jacksonville to you?

[JOHANNA747]

I am certain it is just hanging out with friends and family at the Landing on a beautiful weekend afternoon.  I also enjoy visiting the beaches at sunset.  Jacksonville can make anything right by me.  I would also like to visit St. Augustine more and even live at Ponte Vedra.   I just wish I could learn how to drive better on our roads someday.   

[Ocklawaha]

As a kid it was having James or Johnny, best friends and two black gentlemen employed by my dad at NAS JAX, take me out on the Trout River for some serious fishing. At an older age, it was knowing that "scorpion of Death" that nailed my finger-tip in Johnny's car, was his way of joking with the gutless kid. To the "aunts and uncles" up in the hood that took me in like a lost puppy and taught me the difference  between cabbage and turnip greens. To know that in spite of colors-cultures and race, it was my hometown that came up with the neighborhood festival. Later to take my wife to various "soul food" restaurants, and show her a Jacksonville that is feared, yet normally warm and open. To see her, from one of the most racially divided societies on earth, loosen  up and embrace this giant family we call Jacksonville. To watch that Jacksonville influence touch her so that a nasty remark during Katrina, resulted in her pulling out the soap box and giving   her Colombian family instructions on how the cow-eats-the-cabbage. To go to the Jazz fest and sing "WE ARE FAMILY" with 100,000 other voices. So where is this magic land? Sorry but it's hidden in plain sight... Just look for the bass boat, the one with a young guy, old guy, rich guy, poor guy. The one with the racial and economic harmony - looking for all the world more like a flat, and well informed, San Francisco, rather then a dynamic version of Macon.

Pride? You bet, much more is RIGHT about Jacksonville then the total of the sum parts seen as evil.
"Your biggest surprise is our reality." My daughter that told her school mates, "When I grow up I want to be Diana Ross!" She carried that dream right through school and into a "show choir" and state ballet theater, next thing I knew, she was all grown up and belting out "Diana" at Disney.

OCKLAWAHA

[DetroitInJAX]

Bliss to me is seeing it slowly fade away at 500mph from the window a 767 bound for Atlanta.

[copperfiend]

Sitting in Jacksonville Municipal Stadium as the Jaguars are about to beat the Steelers again.

[David]

Bliss to me is seeing it slowly fade away at 500mph from the window a 767 bound for Atlanta.

haha, that's wrong man, but funny.

I can relate at times, but after a week away i'd say bliss for me is returning home and seeing people I know, knowing where everything's at and chilling in either Memorial Park or on River rd.

Also, this time of year, minus a few overnight freezes is the best time to be here weatherwise.  Bliss is 5 months of not having heat indexes over 110! You get a hint of winter but without the salt tearing up the roadways and the shoveling of the snow.

[copperfiend]

Bliss to me is seeing it slowly fade away at 500mph from the window a 767 bound for Atlanta.

I can understand what you are saying. I feel the same way when I fly to Vegas or NY. But after about 5 days, it's good to come back.

[ProjectMaximus]

Two weeks til your bliss, huh?

Sitting in Jacksonville Municipal Stadium as the Jaguars are about to beat the Steelers again.

[copperfiend]

Two weeks til your bliss, huh?

Sitting in Jacksonville Municipal Stadium as the Jaguars are about to beat the Steelers again.

correct

[TheProfessor]

Bliss to me is seeing it slowly fade away at 500mph from the window a 767 bound for Atlanta.

I've lived in Atlanta. It has nothing on what Jacksonville has to offer for its size and proximity.  Next time you fly there make sure you stay there with all of the Atlantans!

[jacksonvilleconfidential]

Bliss to me is seeing it slowly fade away at 500mph from the window a 767 bound for Atlanta.

LOL, stop hatin'

Bliss for me is a nice sunny day on a boat in the St. Johns.

[David]

Bliss to me is seeing it slowly fade away at 500mph from the window a 767 bound for Atlanta.

I can understand what you are saying. I feel the same way when I fly to Vegas or NY. But after about 5 days, it's good to come back.

Same here about NY. I love it but after about 5 days, 4 parking tickets @ 70 bucks each, 300 dollar a night dumpy hotels, 2 nights of 9 dollar beers &  1 prick who stole my cab  RIGHT as I was getting in it, I was ready to come back!

[fsujax]

Being Downtown on a sunny, cool, fall day at lunch time watching all the people walk around. This is when Downtown looks like a Downtown.

[TheProfessor]

Being able to be a beach bum or an urban dweller, so much variety of scenery, it makes the life richer.

[jaxlore]

it used to be, after a night of quality electronic dance music, walking out of a club into the sunlight at 6am and enjoying the breeze...it will probably be a long time before I see that again, so i will settle for my morning bike rides along the Riverwalk.

[Ocklawaha]

Ortega boy - Back in the hood again,

This time FINDING those damn CROWN JEWELS!

OCKLAWAHA
he prays: "Wichi Ti To"