Recently added articles from Northern Florida Adventure Guide:
Acknowledgments.
Jan 01, 2007 ... At the risk of sounding like Academy Award winners, please indulge us for a few moments of thanks. (STOP: Don't skip this part--there's going to be a pop quiz at the end of the book!) The folks who bring adventuring to you in Florida have their stuff together as you'll discover ...
Introduction.
Jan 01, 2007 ... Welcome to the wild, wonderful and sometimes wacky "Other" Florida.(That's the one far from the "Land of the Mouse" and "Miami Vice.") The wild side of the equation: You're going on a safari into 39 counties in North and Northwest Florida that remain for the most part untamed ....
Western Panhandle.
Jan 01, 2007 ... Famous double-takes after a first-time UFO encounter: 1) "Lord, I'll never touch another drop." 2) "I didn't see it if you didn't see it." 3) "Billy Earl, I think I'm having a hot flash." Time-out for a question from a reader in Atlanta. What the ...
Central Panhandle.
Jan 01, 2007 ... Ponce de Leon blew a sizable chunk of King Ferdinand's treasury on his search for the mythical fountain of youth. But the Spanish monarch kept sending checks until he got his hands on a college transcript. That's when he learned his wayward explorer failed Star Reading 101. ...
Eastern Panhandle.
Jan 01, 2007 ... The town that Coke built? Well, yes, but it was inadvertent. Shortly after the turn of the century, Quincy residents who needed a loan had one place to turn, Quincy State Bank. Its president, Mark W. "Pat" Munroe, made no bones about it: Applications would get his ...
Suwannee Region.
Jan 01, 2007 ... True story: (They're all true. After all, this is non-fiction.) Stephen Foster's most famous composition, not to mention Florida's state song, almost got blind-sided with the lyrics: Way down upon the Pee Dee River. That was Foster's first choice because ...
Northern Heartland.
Jan 01, 2007 ... Strange encounters of the abnormal, paranormal and nearly normal kind: (You be the judge: Which is which?) Old Sparky. That's the politically incorrect nickname for Florida's electric chair at the Florida State Prison. You can't see the real McCoy--unless you're a ...
Northeast Florida.
Jan 01, 2007 ... Of course, being attentive students of the adventure game, you remember King Ferdinand and his lovely daughter, "Juana the Mad," from page 1 of the Central Panhandle chapter. When you last met Ponce de Leon, their slightly wayward explorer, he was desperately blowing the king's fortune and ...
North-Central Florida.
Jan 01, 2007 ... Wild Florida factoids, brought to you by Capt. Charlie Patrick, who runs a pontoon-boat tour on the picturesque Dora Canal in Lake County: * Some folks get lucky and see an alligator sunning itself on a lake shore or river bank. But most gators seen in the wild are a little ...
The Nature Coast & Big Bend.
Jan 01, 2007 ... Hippopotamus husbandry learned the hard way: "Lucifer the Rotund One" landed at a privately run tourist attraction, now the Homosassa Springs State Wildlife Park, in 1964 after a stellar career at Ivan Tors' Studio. (If you saw "Daktari" you saw Big Lu at his finest.) ...
