The Florida Explorer

This month was fairly productive in my reading — I knocked out two more Carl Hiaasen books, and covered some ground in my goal to read 52 books this year. I’m about two books behind and I hope to make up those two books in April and be on pace for 52 books. We shall see!

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Outing magazine dated 1891.

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Outing magazine dated 1890.

I’m calling this The Ultimate Florida Quest…but really it’s just goals that I’m setting for myself to keep me on track and I’m hoping that it will inspire others to get out there to live their best lives. At the time of this writing I’m 35 years old. I’m not quite to the halfway point of my life (hopefully!), but I am getting there, and I still have a lot that I want to accomplish…so I figured I should write out what I want to do and to get going.

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Outing magazine dated 1891.

I like to look at the bright side of life. I was supposed to be spending my vacation next week at a condo on Indian Rocks Beach…but that has been cancelled as I can’t bring myself to be an idiotic, disease-spreading spring breaker. But so what! I can still have an amazing vacation right from home. All I need is to brainstorm some great ideas.

I have more time on my hands due to working at home, so I have been pondering, including pondering about this blog! So a State of the Blog article is in order. Hear! Hear!

So Florida is basically closed and the usual things us Floridians do this time of year are out of commission. But fear not! There is still a lot of Florida exploring to do!

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Outing magazine dated 1891.

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Outing magazine dated 1903.

Well, we live in interesting times. Let’s take a look at how the Corona Virus is impacting Florida.

Does anybody out there actually work a 9-5? I think that’s a myth. I think most people work an 8-7, plus commute time. It’s weird that I remember playing video games for hours as a child/man-child and I somehow was able to have time for that.

In February I went to the beginning of Carl Hiaasen’s career, where he teamed up with Bill Montalbano to write three books — Powder Burn, Trap Line, and A Death In China.

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from New York Cosmopolitan magazine dated 1892.

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Scribner’s magazine dated 1892.

It’s back! The Smithsonian Museum is giving away free tickets to amazing museums again on April 4, 2020. Here’s what you need to do:

Work brought me to Ybor City the other day and, as usual, chickens were everywhere clucking away. So I decided to get some pictures for the blog.

Since I was born and raised in a place that was not Florida and now permanently live in Florida, because it is the land that I love–does this make me a True Floridian? What are the rules for this?

Well, it is upon us once again. Where half the country comes to party on our golden shores, cruise our theme parks, clog our roads, take all our camping spots, and drink our beer.