So last week I was minding my own business and cruising my Facebook page when I came upon an online trivia show hosted by Visit Bradenton Gulf Islands. Well, I decided to play along and ended up winning an echo dot.
Visit Bradenton Gulf Islands is the official travel planning resource for Anna Maria...
 To assist with driving, The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has launched its Holiday Travel Campaign. We like the idea. It's to ensure motorists "Arrive Alive" to their destination.
Holiday Travel
  The holidays are a peak travel period. Subsequently, millions of Floridians and visitors are expected to travel on Florida roads over the next two...
As things begin to get back in gear, many people want to know how to tell which Florida beaches are open. To that end, we have found there are several ways to check - especially if you know where you are headed.
Over the course of time, we have witnessed several communities that had opened,...
  Officials of the American Automobile Associations say a new study shows that American workers took an average of 17.2 days of vacation last year. According to new research from Project: Time Off that shows a half-day increase from 2016. This marks the highest level for American vacation usage since 2010 when we took an average of 17.5 days...
To be honest, we've never been big on taking guided tours as we wend our way through the Sunshine State. However, recently we have become aware of a group in central Florida that might change our minds.  Ingeniously dubbed "Mosquito County Tours," it's the brainchild of Mandy Longo.  About a decade ago, she began taking walking tours hosted by...
  The gift of time may be the best gift you can give.
  When it came to gift giving, in the past we used to give material goods as presents. That CD they wanted, a sweater, Star Wars mug or some other thing that we'd heard that was a heart's desire.
  However, as we have gotten older, we have...
 Back in September we did a piece on Florida bourbons in honor of "Bourbon Heritage Month." Little did we know it would lead to one of the great Christmas presents of our adult life.
  There are three bourbon distilleries here in Florida, including the Timber Creek Distillery in Crestview - up in the panhandle. We were stunned when...
  In our travels we have visited lots of locales - but we've never actually been on any kind of organized tour.
  Oh, we have taken a lot of trips around the Sunshine State. But our favorite destinations have been smaller, funky and interesting towns that we've explored on our own. Matlacha for instance, is tiny but there is...
We agree, this has been a year to remember. That is why we decided to do a review of our travels in 2020. In looking back over the past 12 months it's hard to believe how many places we managed to visit in Florida.
January
Our travels in 2020 began with a revisit to the Sarasota Farmer's Market. One of the...
There is nothing that surpasses the importance of research in planning a getaway. We use TripAdvisor to review the restaurants, lodging and points of interest in area we plan to visit. It helps us determine where we'll go and what we'll do.
Recently, we attended an extended family function where somebody else suggested...
