There’s old, and then there’s really old, and I’m not referring to Tony Bennett. Nope, it’s this place, the nation’s oldest continuously occupied city, starting way back in 1565! With colonial history galore, beautiful Spanish-style architecture, shopping...
Sarasota, Florida is the poster child for Florida retirement. Every frustrated worker in every sitcom ever: “Someday I’m gonna get outta this rat race and buy a condo in Sarasota!” And it’s not hard to see why! But before there were hundreds of thousands of...
HOLY (SEA) COW! A visit to Crystal Springs and Homosassa, Florida, is not complete without a wild manatee encounter. And we had a few of them — some planned, some unplanned! Behold one of the world’s gentlest giants … ain’t he the CUTEST? Manatees come to this area...
This place: Cedar Key. What a place! It’s like Key West, if it were 50 years ago, if there were no Ernest Hemingway and his six-toed cats, no drunken posses of bro’s traipsing in and out of Sloppy Joe’s bar, no tourists paying double or triple for a fried grouper...
We’ve been gone from Arizona for three weeks … 1/3 of this total trip. We left the Emerald Coast and traveled to the “Forgotten Coast,” so-called because it’s the “place that development forgot.” Yep — it’s undeveloped, all right! Gone...
The purpose of this 9-week journey was to earn a small, tacky piece of paper … a sticker for the travel map on the side of our RV. Florida became the 42nd state we’ve visited in the RV, and we were thrilled to add that “thumb” to our U.S. outline. Our first of...