What is the highest and lowest latitude you've visited?

Tiggity® · 2025-10-22T01:07:29.538Z

I've got Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK as the most northern latitude, and the Sydney airport in Sydney, Australia as the furthest south. 57 24 N 33 58 S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmnLLkJfurg Song inspired question.....

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I read (listened to) his last book OTW to the Keys this year

Oct 22, 2025, 11:10 AM [ in reply to His music sucks ]

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Buffett had a great imagination and a soft spot for many places—South Carolina among them. He even created a fictional family, The Clemsons, who made cameo appearances as background characters in his stories.

I’m in the middle of A Pirate Looks at Fifty, and whether every tale he tells is true or is slightly embellished, he lived twice the life most of us ever will. He once did a cat shot off an aircraft carrier, survived his own airplane crash, and even got shot at by the police while landing his plane in Jamaica. He surfed Folly Beach when Hurricane Florence brushed the coast in 2018.

What’s remarkable is that the crowd he ran with in Key West—before he got famous—ended up reshaping not only the Florida Keys but also a slice of American culture. He was close with Tony Tarracino, the owner of Captain Tony’s Saloon, who hosted the likes of Ernest Hemingway, John Prine, JFK, Harry Truman, and even Mike Leach. Buffett both influenced and was influenced by writers like Tom McGuane (The Longest Silence, Ninety-Two in the Shade) and Jim Harrison (Legends of the Fall). Even David Allan Coe wrote a song about him. His music paved the way for artists like Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Zac Brown, and Jesse Rice—but Buffett was the true originator of “island escapism.”

I’ve always liked his music, but I learned to really respect him after learning about Key West’s early tarpon-fishing culture (and later industry) through films like All That Is Sacred and Tarpon. For someone who loves warm weather, fishing, and life on the water, that time and place must have been incredible.

Buffett was one of the few who could actually afford to live the carefree lifestyle he sang about—but the irony is that he only really lived that way when he was young, broke, and had no other choice. That’s always said something to me.

I’ve never heard anyone say his music sucked—but I suppose everyone’s got an opinion.

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Same impressions here. Yes, beautiful place. Was in Poznan for a month on job assignment (so Miss came with) and from there had a few two-day visits to Warsaw. I thought the people were wonderful. Same issues as we have, but a very happy people. Loved the little groceries on nearly every street corner, all had great cheeses, and beer came in pint bottles like the Almighty intended. We were in a little second floor apartment right off the city center square, with a small pub across the street. We soon learned that we would be staying up all night on Saturdays: beginning at about 1:00 AM the local boys would spill out onto the street singing soccer team songs. This would go on to about 4:00. No cops needed. They were loud, but totally fun.

Due to possibility of extended assignment, I looked into golf possibilities for the future. Slim. However, there was a course in Warsaw named the Warsaw Valley Golf Club, which I thought was a hoot: I never saw a single valley in that flat country.

They have an unusual tradition of serving cake and pastry at about 5:00, then dinner a couple of hours later. Not unlike British tea, maybe. Very hospitable. We were invited to a home for dinner - cake first - and I commented on the beautiful tableware. Was very modern looking. The hostess said, "Was my grandmother's, who got from her mother in law. She buried it in late 1930's to hide from Germans and Russians. Not able to retrieve until the 50's, but it was all there." I was using hundred year old items, which I figured didnt come out often. We were nobodies, not influential people, but we were guests, and that is who they are.

What is the highest and lowest latitude you've visited?

Somewhere in Maine and somewhere in the Yucatán

Luxembourg is further north.***

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Ken M reminds me

Hate traveling so

How can anyone hate JB. I've seen ambivalent. I've seen meh. Never seen h8.

His music sucks

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Justin Bieber is the bees knees man

Bieber is fire.

He married well.

His ability

Not gonna disagree

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I read (listened to) his last book OTW to the Keys this year

His first seven albums are American singer-songwriter masterpieces.

Thanks autocorrect.

Buffett always said he had the "Big 8" songs that made his career

A Pirate Looks at Forty is a true classic. I also love Jack Johnson's version

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Nothing against him as a person, I am sure he was a nice guy***

I love traveling, always have.

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Iceland to Costa Rica. 65.6 to 10. Never been past the equator.***

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Order of the Blue Nose checking in - 66 33'!

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N is either Helsinki Finland or St Petersburg Russia

Lowest is wherever Aruba is.

Northern Vermont for the north, and Miami for the south. Texas was close on

Florida Keys to bumpluck MI and

Highest - Scottish Highlands. Lowest - Ft. Lauderdale.***

To the north,

Minneapolis to Key West.***

idfk i'm not a paleontologist***

Vancouver and Tegucigalpa***

~56N - ~19N

Stockholm, Sweden and Key West, FL. I think Key West

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Hmmm, probably Tappen, North Dakota and Ocho Rios, Jamaica***

Tappen

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Oh man, sex jokes are so fun

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without looking at the numbers

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Mercator?

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St. Lucia to the south...Gdansk, Poland to the north***

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I only spent two nights in Gdansk, but considerable time in Wroclaw.

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Hmm interesting question. Inverness & Accra***

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GERMANS!

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Northern-most: Vancouver or Edinburgh; Southern-most: Patagonia or Botswana***

north - NYC, west - Hawaii***

Quebec City / Sao Paulo***

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