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The Orlando Eye Shows Florida Tourists Still Like It “Big”

Posted on May 4, 2015 by floridatraveler

Today, Orlando Eye, a 400-foot observation ferris wheel opens on Orlando’s International Drive just off I-4 down the road from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and the huge Lockhead Martin plant.    The Eye is the fifth largest in the world … Continue reading →

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Apalachicola’s Great American Botanist Lived A Wild Life

Posted on April 6, 2015 by floridatraveler

Dr Alvan W. Chapman was born in Massachusetts in 1809, educated as a physician at Amherst, and came to Quincy, Florida, at the age of 26.  A few years later he moved to the booming, port village of Apalachicola, where … Continue reading →

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Florida’s Best Tropical Gardens – It’s Azalea Season

Posted on February 16, 2015 by floridatraveler

While people in my native Boston are digging out from six feet of snow, visitors to my new home in Florida are touring the state’s  spectacular tropical gardens.  February to April is azalea time and even North Florida’s gardens seem to … Continue reading →

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The Inside The Box Cafe Is Tampa’s Diamond in the Rough

Posted on September 28, 2014 by floridatraveler

Inside the Box resembles most of the fast service lunch spots on Tampa Street, Tampa’s downtown restaurant row.  Even many of the customers rushing in to get a one-half sandwich, one-half salad meal-to-go or one of the weekly specials do not know … Continue reading →

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Fantasy of Flight Attraction Is Closing

Posted on March 29, 2014 by floridatraveler

Fantasy of Flight, the attraction at Polk City off I-4, is closing its main facilities after 18 years of service. It is another of the “real things” attractions that haven’t been able to attract enough business from the gigantic “fantasy” … Continue reading →

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St. Leo Abbey: Florida’s Shroud of Turin

Posted on December 18, 2012 by floridatraveler

The 1931 Benedictine Abbey next to the campus of St Leo College in Pasco County contains the 23,500 pound Tennessee marble crucifix modeled by sculptor Frank Aretz after the Shroud of Turin.

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events – Mutiny Sinks Before Reaching Florida

Posted on October 31, 2012 by floridatraveler

One of the victims of Hurricane Sandy was the HMS Bounty, a replica built for the 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty. The tall-masted 180-foot ship was actually headed for Saint Petersburg for a last time reunion with St. Pete … Continue reading →

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