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Myakka River State Park has a Airboat Tour – all aboard!
Myakka River State Park has a Airboat Tour – all aboard!

Myakka River State Park has a Airboat Tour – all aboard!

Don’t let a little mystery keep you from going to Myakka River State Park and  taking a Myakka Wildlife Airboat Tour aboard one of the world’s largest covered airboats. The mystery? Prior to the 1850’s English maps called the river…

Jack Kerouac Slept & Wrote in College Park, Florida
Jack Kerouac Slept & Wrote in College Park, Florida

Jack Kerouac Slept & Wrote in College Park, Florida

Jack Kerouac slept here. Believe it! For a short while, during a piece of 1957-58 Jack Kerouac and his mother lived in a two-room apartment at the back of a bungalow in College Park, a laidback neighborhood in northwest Orlando.…

Backstage Tours at Sarasota Opera House & More Places
Backstage Tours at Sarasota Opera House & More Places

Backstage Tours at Sarasota Opera House & More Places

Backstage tours. Something different! Take a Sarasota Opera House tour around the building and backstage – the tour pulls back the curtain to reveal the hands and hours it takes to produce an opera. Singers fill out a multi-page costume…

Florida Bed & Breakfasts Pamper Guests
Florida Bed & Breakfasts Pamper Guests

Florida Bed & Breakfasts Pamper Guests

Florida Bed & Breakfasts – you never know where you will find one. Wandering around Florida’s Forgotten Coast I found myself in the fishing village of Apalachicola and discovered the Coombs Inn & Suites, three lovely historic Victorian Mansions. I…