If you’re driving to Florida, getting there can be a trip in itself. But treat yourself; make some stops along the way. You can use these road trip itineraries not only to explore your ultimate destination, but to stop and experience more of the Sunshine State while enroute. Whether you’re heading…
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By Kevin McGeever Let me introduce you to Travel Math. Here’s the formula: For every day spent driving to your Florida vacation destination, spend the same number of weeks staying in the destination. So, driving from New York City to Tampa-St. Petersburg takes two days? Spend two weeks in Florida…
Read MoreBy Kevin McGeever When the Florida vacation destination is Orlando, the Theme Park Capital of the World, some tunnel vision can be excused. From Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina, this road trip south on I-95 and west on I-4 should take no more than nine hours of drive time. After crossing the state…
Read MoreBy Kevin McGeever Remember logic and propositions? If p then q? Since childhood, I’ve spent 50 years of vacations doing these mental gymnastics around road trips. If we leave at (enter time here), and the map (now Google) says the drive will take (enter hours here), then we can reach (enter…
Read MoreBy Kevin McGeever What if I said that on this Florida vacation you could camp on a beach, see Blue Angels fly, paddle in a coastal dune lake, catch a red snapper in the Gulf of America and have it prepared for dinner at a dockside restaurant, slurp ice cream drizzled with Tupelo honey, ogle…
Read MoreBy Kevin McGeever The drive from Dallas to Florida is 650 miles of east Texas and Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama and then, thankfully, 50 miles of Florida vacation heaven. The temptation on this scenic homestretch from Pensacola to Destin might be to push on. After all, you’re so close to…
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By Kevin McGeever Hello, Georgia. Got a Florida vacation on your mind? You are a day’s drive from Atlanta to Destin and its snow-white Emerald Coast beaches and world-renowned offshore fishing. The journey is probably six hours, but we can recommend some Florida points of interest along the way…
Read MoreBy Kevin McGeever The drive from Atlanta to Jacksonville is a 350-mile road trip from bustling to busy with bucolic in between. Point A (Atlanta) is undeniably one of America’s great urban centers. Point B (Jacksonville), you may be surprised to know, is the largest city in square miles in the…
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By Sam Dolson Way back in the '60s, the Drifters romanticized boardwalk life in song. In "Under the Boardwalk," they wove its virtues into doo wop poetry with a song that reached No. 4 on the Top 40 in the summer of '64. Sunshine, romance, summer food, a carousel... the song has it all. The…
Read MoreBy Gary McKechnie There are 67 counties in Florida, and 66 of them are more populous than Liberty County. It’s not Liberty County’s fault. In fact, it’s actually in the county’s favor. One reason the county is so sparsely populated is because a fair share of its 836-square miles is taken up by…
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