Me: I am an educated 47 year-old hard working professional man who is 6'3" tall, 245#, built like a linebacker, blue-eyed, blondish hair, athletic, honest, and trustworthy.

I love the outdoors because I am active and love to ride my bike on our beautifully paved trails like "The Pinellas" or the "Suncoast Trails." I actively love to play all kinds of sports, but have an affinity towards softball, baseball, basketball, triathalons, and football. Movies, museums, concerts. Cruises and Bed-N-Breakfasts are nice weekend getaways too.

I am a decent cook in the kitchen. Believe it or not, I'm not too shabby cooking home spun classic Italian, Cajun, and American cuisines. After we get to know each other after a while, home-spinning a meal together with an interesting young lady from scratch is not only fun, but totally sexy and enjoyable in my opinion.

You: Seeking fun, attractive, well-balanced lady for friendship first. The whole criteria thing is not exactly set in stone.

More importantly, I prefer "Quality over Quantity" in my potential match and am striving to meet my own "Banana Split" for a candid long-term, serious-minded, life-long future compatible partner.

Responsibly, we all have come to know that dating starts with a friendship, and that it is a process that culminates and blossoms into a beautiful and blissful long-term relationship. So that is why I checked the LTR box, but there are many steps to get there in the courting process. I'm not on the "Express Train" to co-dependency, recklessness, or chaos. Don't you all agree? lol.

WTF, another wacky criteria question from POF...Do you Own/Have a car? Well DUH...YAAH at 30-50 years of age, I should hope so. A very dependable 1994 Ford Escort is fine in my book, since I am a non-materialistic type of gentleman. A car is a car, is a car. (I really don't own an Esort, but you catch my drift).

My match would be a professional, attractive, sincere, kind, respectful, curteous, open-minded, trustworthy, giving, professional, enthusiastic, and most of all be conscientious. I am attracted to a lady who is non-controlling and who is very trusting and very honest.

Hopefully, you like the outdoors and all that our wonderful Florida climate has to offer us. That is why most of us moved here in the first place right?

If you feel you like or meet most of my personal criteria for starters, feel free to send me a sincere and warm e-mail. Happy Fishing!

On a first date, I would like to make reservations and take my new lady friend to a wonderful and classy little romantic Italian restaurant in Clearwater called Vincenzo's. This romantic little restaurant has roomy booths, is dimly lit, and has idealic background music by Pavorotti, Sinatra, and Tony Bennett. Vincenzo's cuisine, wine list, and atmosphere is second to none. After our meals and coffee/cappachino's we could go for a nice walk on Clearwater Beach together, where we could talk about our families, our interests, and our compatibility.

After our date, I would call you later that evening or morning to make sure that you got home safe and sound. Then we could begin to plan a second date, if the interest and attraction were mutual. Is that romantic enough?

Coffee and drink dates just don't do it for me! I find them to be boring and impersonal. Just my opinion...Maybe I'm too old-fashioned...I still pull out chairs and open and close doors for ladies and the elderly ....That is called Class!
E-mail me if you are interested. I'm all about Fun, FUN, FUN! Phew now I'm done!