  We see that the summer travel season is now over. But we understand many Floridians are not ready to put their luggage away. In fact, we read a new AAA Consumer Pulse Survey that reveals nearly three-quarters of Florida residents will take at least one vacation sometime from September through November.
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A Fall Vacation is a Good Idea
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   Officials from the AAA say every year Half of Floridians fail to use all their time off, creating a stockpile of 33 million unused vacation days. A study by the AAA, in collaboration with Project: Time Off, says the most effective remedy for American workers who want to use more vacation days is better planning. Yet only 54 percent of American...
  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...
  Once again, the Sebring International Raceway’s legendary 12-hour endurance race has been voted as one of the world’s ten best motorsports races in the USAToday 10best competition.
  Sebring was one of 20 races nominated by a panel of experts for the month long vote, and finished fourth overall. This is a repeat honor for the famed Florida circuit...
Our friend Mandy Longo has discovered a mystery mural. It happened during one of her Mosquito County Tours.
It was on May 9 of 1754 that the first cartoon appeared in an American Newspaper. Appearing in the Philadelphia Gazette, it was titled "Join or Die."
The ink drawing was...
***ATTENTION ***'
  Like many other events in Highlands County, officials of the North American Society of Grass Racers and Sod Slingers have postponed the opener of the 2017-18 racing season at the Avon Park MowerPlex.
"It really is a shame,:" said NASGRASS President Wes Pyburn. "But the safety of our racers and our fans are most important to us."
Pyburn said...
Sorry we have not blogged for a while, but the recent visit by Hurricane Irma has kept us pretty busy for the past couple of weeks. Here at Fun Headquarters we got blown about a bit - as it got pretty breezy at times, but save some roofing, lost fence and a lot of downed tree limbs we came...
  Over the years, we have learned how to plan a vacation - and that many times, a vacation is a whole lot more than just our final destination.
 As I was growing up, our idea of going on vacation was to blast as hard as we could to get to our destination, in an effort to spend as...
  Recently picked as one of the world's Top 5 Motorsports events, the Sebring International Raceway now has another upcoming feather in their cap.
  The FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) has announced Sebring will host not one, but two, world-class endurance sports car events in 2019.
The March 15-16 weekend - the year after next is slated to feature IMSA’s...
If you have ever wanted to have dinner in the treetops - dining at Norwood's is for you. Having found this gem in New Smyrna Beach several years ago, we'd wanted to get around to blogging it. But seeing as how this year will mark there 75th anniversary, we just couldn't wait any longer.
The location has been one kind...
