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Views of the “Big Boats” from the Crosstown Expressway

November 13, 2010
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The Leroy Selmon Crosstown Expressway (map) is a toll road that stretches from Gandy Blvd., on the lower peninsula of Tampa, just north of MacDill Air Force Base, across the top of Hillsborough Bay, on to Brandon, a bedroom community to the southeast of Tampa. The purpose of the Crosstown Expressway, which was ridiculed when [...]

Mount Dora, Florida

February 25, 2010
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OVERLOOKING LAKE DORA FROM LAKESIDE INN Mount Dora is a small town in central Florida on the edge of Lake Dora. As you can see in the map below, Lake Dora is just one of dozens of lakes, large and small, scattered throughout this area adjoining the Ocala National Forest.   View Larger Map This [...]

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Peace

December 25, 2009
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N. E. Taylor Boatworks

October 25, 2008

N. E. Taylor Boatworks In our last post, “Escape to Tahiti,” we began a theme about escaping from the cares of every day life. We continue that today with a look at the N. E. Taylor Boatworks in Cortez, Florida (4628 119th St. W., Cortez, Florida, 34215; 941-794-2802). This is where the big boats go, [...]

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Cortez, an 1880s Florida Fishing Village

October 7, 2008

CORTEZ VILLAGE SIGN Barrier Islands South of Tampa Bay Just on the other side of the Skyway Bridge from St. Pete (see map immediately below), is a string of barrier islands stretching from Anna Maria at the northern end all the way down to Venice, Florida, with just a short break at Lido Key. Toward [...]

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New York Tugboats and the Little Red Lighthouse

September 10, 2008
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INKWATU PHOTO: New York Tugboat Harbor Tours It used to be that I always poo-pooed guided tours. But at some point—maybe about the time I started getting tired of hoofing it around, lost, on my own—my attitude changed. What changed my mind was a horse and buggy tour in Key West I took only because [...]

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