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Winter Park Walk can be a Treasure Hunt
Winter Park Walk can be a Treasure Hunt

Winter Park Walk can be a Treasure Hunt

Like treasure hunts? Then a walk on Park Avenue in Winter Park is your kind of adventure. For starters, stepping into the Spice and Tea Exchange is an aromatic treat. Try to find your favorite spice smell – there are…

Florida State Parks are Calling Your Name

I LOVE FLORIDA STATE PARKS Yes, I do. Deeply. Passionately. Just thinking about taking my dogs for walks on dirt trails shaded by tall trees or getting my wading shoes wet climbing in and out kayaks for river trips makes…

Grab flip flops, Let’s Go Visit Hollywood, Florida
Grab flip flops, Let’s Go Visit Hollywood, Florida

Grab flip flops, Let’s Go Visit Hollywood, Florida

Let’s go to Hollywood. No, not that one in California, instead grab your flip-flops and let’s go to Hollywood, Florida. The city of Hollywood sits on the Atlantic Ocean. It is conveniently located north of Miami and south of Fort…

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…