Geneva fish camp offers an old Florida angle on dining
By a conservative estimate, I've driven past the Jolly Gator Fish Camp about a thousand times without stopping. That all changed on a recent leisurely Friday, the kind of fall...
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Fort Christmas celebrates holidays with annual Cracker Christmas festival
Sitting in a rocking chair, basking in the quiet of a lovely fall afternoon at Fort Christmas Historical Park in east Orange County, I almost believe that I could have...
Tips for when the road trip stalls
"You put a lot of miles on this car!" That was the exclamation from the employee at the tire store, a destination that was the extent of my road tripping...
Parrot Heads headed to Key West
And you thought it was always Parrot Head time in Key West. Since Jimmy Buffett first warbled about putting booze in his blender in the 1970s, Key West has continued...
Sweet stops at old-school shops in Florida
It's possible to drive past landmarks for years without stopping, but that's not my style anymore. I've looked behind the giant fake dinosaurs along Interstate 4 in Plant City, investigated...
Dali Museum, mullet flavors St. Petersburg
At last, my notoriously poor eyesight has yielded something useful. I'm at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, standing across the room from Salvador Dali's "Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea...
Fall brings roar of bikes, waves for Biketoberfest
Roaring engines and crashing waves are the soundtrack for this week's Postcards dispatch. Let's start with the engines. Biketoberfest returns Oct. 18-21 in Volusia County, a magnet for motorcyclists worldwide...
Beyond sand and surf, it’s the local touches that define Florida beaches
There's more to a beach vacation than sand and surf. Distilled to those basic elements, every Florida beach getaway might seem the same. Yet there are also infinite variables that...
I-4 attractions: History takes flight at Polk County’s Fantasy of Flight
If there's a ground zero for kitschy roadside art in Central Florida, it's a stretch of Interstate 4 between exits 9 and 44 on the way from Orlando to Tampa....
Take a lazy river tour of St. Johns
There's an old joke about why the St. Johns River flows north, but out of respect for our good friends from Georgia, I won't repeat it here. Instead, how about...