Florida House District 44, where are you?

I shall attempt to draw you a map – in words, no less! Perhaps a dysfunctional map but a very real and distinct, if not confusing, map. As a matter of fact, it’s a segmented map of little or no importance but perhaps of some significance.

First of all, with an area bordering northeast Hernando County that cuts into Sumter County just north of Istachatta along the Little Withlacoochee River up to E Bushnell Road, cutting southeast past Bay Hill to Wahoo then down to Highway 48 heading east just beyond I-75 to Hwy 301 south but including Bushnell in the mapping area.

Heading south on 301 to CR 478 the path goes east at CR 478 to Hwy 471 but clips around Webster south to Hwy 50, eastward to the Hernando/Lake County line. From there the map goes south to the Withlacoochee River then east back to 471, still in Sumter County but bordering Pasco County to the west.

Heading west along the Hernando/Pasco County line up to I-75 the mapped area goes south to Hwy 52 then east to Hwy 41, north to County Line Road eastward to the Gulf, except for one little niche in Pasco that goes west of 41 on Bowman Road to Caufield Road.

So far the map includes Hernando County and parts of Sumter and Pasco Counties. If you’ve had trouble following me up to this point, don’t worry, I’m pretty much lost myself. But my mapping isn’t quite yet finished.

The mapping turns a northwest Hernando county. Heading up the Gulf coast north to the Hernando/Citrus county line, we go east to Hwy 19 then turn immediately south to Cortez Blvd/Hwy 50 then east to the Suncoast Parkway then just a little north to Ken Austin Parkway, which becomes Star Road. Heading west to Melanie Avenue, the map goes north to Centralia Road/CR 628, at which point you head back east, back to the Suncoast Parkway then north to Ponce de Leon Blvd/US 98 up to West Yuletide Court which borders Hernando and Citrus counties.

What I just carved out is a map of Florida House District 44.

[Except for Bushnell in Sumter County, the east side of the district is pretty much swamp. Please pardon me if those who live in Darby in Pasco County just north of Hwy 52 and west of I-75 feel insulted. Perhaps sometime in the future, rather than heading south on Spring Lake Highway to get to Zephyrhills to visit family, I might take Culbreath Road, south off Powell Road in Hernando County, which becomes Bellamy Brothers Road in Pasco County, and drive through for a look-see. I’m sure you live in a very peaceful setting. I might even sing a few off-tune words from ‘Let Your Love Flow’.]