When life gives you lemons, make lemonade - and where do you get it? In Sarasota that would be the ChillMobile of course.
We had planned to go to Sarasota to take one of the Discover Sarasota Tours. Our hope was to take one of their many different tours and blog about it. We were...
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...
  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...
We have written in the past about the Wild Turkey Tavern in Avon Park. Recently we learned that they are serving breakfast. They're only available on the weekend, which fit our schedule. So, we decided to drop by and give it a shot.
Our Breakfast
The restaurant only recently added the breakfast option. They start at...
We have just learned that Florida Fun Travel has topped 200,000 views since our inception three short years ago. It was at the end of last year that we hit another milestone - 100,000 unique visits. Both those numbers are for us both huge and humbling.
When we started our travel experience, it was mainly...
Recently we saw a question in the Travel Insider Bucket List Facebook Group page asking what was the worst travel advice you'd ever been given. Member Lu Zhan replied - "Work hard and when you retire, then you can travel."
We could not agree more - that might be the worst advice ever.
Early...
We were delighted to see that Governor Ron DeSantis and Visit Florida have teamed up to encourage the idea of a staycation. This is what we have advocated since starting this blog.
Staycation does not mean actually to stay at home - it does mean, enjoy the Sunshine State.
It's our...
  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...
After weeks of social distancing due to the Covid-19 infestation, we think travel is in order to help preserve our mental health.
Psychological experts say the whole notion of social distancing sounds dire - and we agree. We're being told to stay away from other people and sequester ourselves. The orders are to...
   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...
