Chokoloskee Florida Here We Come! 
Chokoloskee Florida Trip Notes

The Tamiami Trail(Rt. 41 between Miami and Naples, FL) is sometimes called slow, flat and boring. It is definitely slower ...

Welaka, Florida 
Welaka is on the east bank of the St. Johns River about halfway between Palatka and Deland. It is not on the main highway, so you have to work a bit to ...

Fernandina's Many Flags 
Way up in the far northeastern corner of Florida is one of its most interesting and historic towns, Fernandina Beach. It is one of the oldest little cities ...

Yeehaw Junction 
Follow SR-60 west out of Vero Beach and you will come to a genuine slice of Old Florida.

Yeehaw Junction, Florida is at the intersection of US-441 and ...

Punta Gorda Life -- Aqui Esta!  Not rated yet
About eight years ago I discovered a small town resting on a fat point that juts out into Charlotte Harbor on the Southwest coast of Florida. Magically ...

Haines City Florida  Not rated yet
Do you know what the name of the big old hotel is downtown? It looks abandoned, from a distance, although I haven't gone right up to it. Too bad, it ...

Boca Grande FL Was Not All That Fancy  Not rated yet
I first visited Boca Grande FL in 1968 on a construction project I was working on. It involved putting in some new boat slips at a local marina.

The ...

St Augustine Florida: New Switzerland A Florida Ghost Townn  Not rated yet
Here is a link to a very interesting article by Geoff Dobson about New Switzerland, one of the many lost towns in Florida.

http://www.historiccity.com/...

Looking forward to your St. Pete page  Not rated yet
I notice that your St. Petersburg page is a work in progress. I look forward to your completing it and to see what you have to say.

It's come a long ...

Lawtey, Florida: Slow Down When You Blow Through This Burg  Not rated yet
Lawtey is a little town of about 600 people in Bradford County near Starke. It is on US-301, and for many years was famous as a speed trap. I got nailed ...

Haines City Florida  Not rated yet
Your Haines City Florida page jogged my memory.

I remember Emory Cocke who you mentioned on your page. He owned a company named Sunni-Citrus or somesuch....

Avon Park  Not rated yet
Back in the 1960's I was working on a construction project in Avon Park. I stayed in Reed's Motel on the main highway, and I frequented the bar at the ...

Melbourne, A Neat Little Town  Not rated yet
We visited this little town on Florida's central east coast last summer. It has some great beaches across the Indian River causeway in Indialantic, Melbourne ...

Quincy and Allison House  Not rated yet
Visited Quincy last summer and stayed at Allison House. The town is small and quaint and a nice place to hang out for a few days.

Allison House fits ...

Giorgio's in Fort Lauderdale  Not rated yet
I visit Fort Lauderdale frequently, and love the wide selection of restaurants available in the town. When I crave a pizza during one of my visits, I ...

Bolougne, Florida
The Town That Lived On Speeders  Not rated yet
Somewhere just south of the St. Marys River and the Florida Georgia border there was a sleepy little wide spot in the road called Bolougne.

Rhymes with ...

Deleon Springs Horse Training  Not rated yet
Spring Garden Ranch is west of US-17 in Deleon Springs just north of Deland. It is billed as the largest standardbred horse training facility in the country....

Deleon Springs, Florida  Not rated yet
Deleon Springs is a small town north of Deland on U.S.-17. It is the home of an old spa that was famous many years ago, and is now the site of Deleon ...

Brooksville FL  Not rated yet
Brooksville FL is just a few miles east of Weeki Wachee on the other side of Spring Hill.

Charles Sumner was a United States Senator from Massachusetts ...

Hastings, Florida. A Long Way From Iwo Jima.  Not rated yet
My friend Howard was born and raised near Bunnell in Flagler County.

His father was a pioneer Florida Cracker county commissioner who sold much of the ...

Homosassa: Lost In Time  Not rated yet
Weeki Wachee is a fun place to visit. After you have enjoyed this classic attraction, you might run up US-19 to Homosassa and take a look at the real ...

Edgewater, Florida  Not rated yet
Not too far south of Daytona Beach, on the west side of the Halifax River, you will come to Edgewater, Florida.

Edgewater is a little town south of ...

Crescent City Florida and 3 Bananas  Not rated yet
Crescent City Florida is a neat little town about halfway between St. Augustine and Deland. One way to get there is on US-17 north out of Deland. It'...

Alva, Florida Is Lost In Time  Not rated yet
I was cruising slowly on this stretch of the Caloosahatchee River on my houseboat, The Busted Flush. I had come over from Fort Lauderdale on the Okeechobee ...