If you're just renting then there are cheaper places than Naples, also they won't let you fly to the Bahamas. I rented last month from an airfield in mid Florida and flew as far east as the Bahamas, south to Key West and as far west as New Orleans.
New Orleans Lakefront is handy for visiting the city and they'll probably let you fly around for some sightseeing. Mobile Downtown (not Regional) is a great airport, with mothballed 747s and various airliners getting work done that you can walk around. Pensacola is quite scenic. Tallahassee Regional is also a nice stop though watch out for the hilly runway, and I had some sort of military fighter jet do a go-around right above me during my flare cos he'd been coming in too fast (or maybe I was slower than Tower expected!). Anyway I could go on for hours about all the cool airports.
Going back to routes, I'd recommend going west, to Texas or all the way to California. You can spend a lot of time island hopping in the Bahamas, expensive layovers though. Doing milkrounds around southern Florida will get boring after a few days but you can log quite a few hours visiting some neat airports in the state.
Last edited by carb; 3rd September 2002 at 18:02.