Orlando, Florida

place · in 18 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 7 · 2008: 6 · 2009: 1 · 2011: 2 · 2013: 2

Threads

Hank and Katherine's yearly trip through the southeastern United States (2007) — story, update, 2007–2007
Hank's trip to Florida to visit his in-laws and his high-school friends in Orlando (2011) — story, update, 2011–2011
John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — story, tell, 2013–2013

What the videos say

2007

2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank and Katherine have begun their yearly trip through the southeastern US: Asheville, Athens (friends), back to Asheville, a flight to Orlando, a drive to Tampa/St. Petersburg (friends), then Englewood, Florida. (00:00:09)
2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — In keeping with 'movie magic', the bulldog footage was filmed on the day of his last video, whose intro he had already shot in Asheville; he is now in Orlando. (00:00:39)
2007-02-03 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd — Hank is in Orlando and about to be in Sarasota, Florida, near Tampa and St. Petersburg. (00:01:21)
2007-02-03 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd — As an apology to Orlandans upset by his comments that Orlando sucks (though no one seemed upset), Hank lists reasons Orlando doesn't suck. (00:01:45)
2007-03-12 · March 12th: How to Make a Podcast — Hank walks John through logging into their FTP server (the password given only as family clues) and dragging all their videos into the podcast directory, which will take hours. (00:02:02)
2007-09-10 · September 10th: Airports and Whitman — John always spends the last week before a revision deadline somewhere quiet; this time Orlando, where the book is mainly set, checking Winter Park High School still looks the same. (00:00:49)
2007-09-12 · September 12: Paper Towns, Part 1 — In the reading, the narrator and Margo Roth Spiegelman grow up next door from age two in Jefferson Park, an Orlando subdivision on a former Navy base. (00:00:00)
2007-10-26 · October 25th: Down Memory Lane — Hank got a flattering front-page photo in a newspaper's lifestyle section for making IHateI4.com, a site Orlando drivers could relate to; the site no longer exists. (00:01:42)

2008

2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — John announces the Paper Towns tour stops from October 17 to 30: Boston, Indianapolis, Columbus, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Chicago suburbs and city, Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco, and a Nerdfighter Halloween party in Los Angeles. (00:01:43)
2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — John says much of Paper Towns is set in Orlando, Florida. (00:02:13)
2008-10-21 · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — Later this week John will be in Atlanta, where the show starts at 6, not 6:30 (people should probably come early), then Miami, Orlando and Naperville. (00:01:02)
2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. — John hopes to see nerdfighters tonight in Miami, tomorrow in Orlando or on Friday in Naperville, Illinois. (00:03:43)

2009

2009-01-28 · Before Looking for Alaska... — Growing up in Orlando, John believed as a child that being rich meant having stairs in your house, even imagining the IRS taxed households by their stairs. (00:00:34)

2011

2011-05-31 · Horatio, the Newest Member of our Family — Visiting friends in Orlando reminded Hank how great high school was; he thanks those friends for making him a more fun and better person. (00:00:34)
2011-07-11 · Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle — In the description Hank says he grew up in Orlando regularly watching the shuttle take off, and it had a huge effect on him. (00:00:00)

2013

2013-10-29 · Perspective — John's dad drove up to Chicago and they drove back to Orlando; John got into daily therapy, started a much better medication for him, and watched Harvey. (00:01:51)