Tallahassee: A window on history
Even a tourist knows that Florida's official nickname is "The Sunshine State," but the identity of the state pie (Key lime) and state wildflower (Coreopsis) is perhaps not-so-common knowledge. Such...
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Venice: A short walk on long pier
A beachcomber could build an extensive road trip around a tour of Florida's scenic fishing piers. From the Keys to the Panhandle, dozens of historic wooden platforms offer an extension...
Motorcycling Florida and beyond
When it comes to motorcycle tours, Florida's flat landscape doesn't offer the breathtaking scenery of a mountain pass in Colorado or an old New England village. Yet the state still...
Seminole museum worth the ride
Dirt roads. Beaches. Rush-hour interstate highways. Thread-the-needle parallel parking on South Beach. Lonely stretches of rural blacktop that time and cell-phone towers forgot. Your correspondent and his rapidly aging 2003...
Manatees at home in Homosassa
For some reason, manatee-watching always seems like a winter diversion. Observing benign, 1-ton sea cows glide in spring-fed waters is a ritual at January manatee festivals in Orange City and...
History in the air in Lakeland
In the era of the International Space Station, there's still something humbling about looking at news reports of Charles Lindbergh's solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York...
Coast to coast on State Road 40
It stretches from the Atlantic Ocean almost to the Gulf of Mexico, a route that encompasses sandy beaches, springs, secluded forests and history from John D. Rockefeller to Elvis Presley....
Just north of Orlando, museums wheel out carriages, tractors
Today's magic word is conveyances. Within a few miles of each other in rural Lake and Marion counties, two museums are dedicated to different ways of getting around: One emphasizes...
Go undersea at Florida Aquarium
Sadly, I'm snorkel-impaired. No matter how many times I try, I can't make a dive mask seal to my face. When the water pours inside, rushing into my eyes and...
Beaches and beyond in Brevard
Even a bad day at the beach is better than being at the office. I kept repeating that to myself as exceptionally gusty winds threatened to blow everything off my...