Florida

Wynwood Walls has brought the world's greatest artists working in the graffiti and street art genre to Miami.  What used to be an abandoned bunch of warehouses in the 2008 recession was brought alive by art.  [...]

Little Havana offers a taste of multicultural Miami where Cuban immigrants have heavily influenced the culture - food, music, art  and above all, cigars.

Our Orlando family treated us to a day at Universal, where they can magically conjure up whatever they dream.  Talk about imagineering!

Key West is and island only 4 miles long by 1 1/2 miles wide.  Between 1828 and 1850, it was the wealthiest city in Florida, thanks to fishing and salt production.  Now the main industries [...]

Truman became president abruptly, after FDR's death, and only 83 days into his vice-presidency.  In the next year, Truman oversaw the ending of the war in Europe, the dropping of nuclear bombs on Japan (followed [...]

After Cuba, we really enjoyed being back in the US and be free to do what we wanted when we wanted.  We played golf, of course, and walked the beach for hours.

You all know Pi, right?  The circumference of a circle divided by its diameter?  The answer is the same for any circle - a math constant, usually rounded to 3.14159. Did you know that a guy [...]

Cocoa Beach is on the Atlantic side of Florida,a beach peninsula with water on both sides.Looks like this Tiki guy forgothis hat and sunglasses!Dinner with our Florida family!  Mike's brother Charlie, wife Deb, their son David [...]

 Behold the Vertical Assembly Building, built in 1966,  STILL the tallest one story building in the world at 525 ft.  Those large grey doors on the left side opened to allow the rollout of the hugeSaturn V rocket.   [...]

The oldest wooden schoolhouse in America, circa 1705.  Originally a homestead, built of red cedarand cypress.  Everything was made by hand, including the nails and wooden pegs.  The giant anchor and chain that wrap the building are from 1937, when [...]

The King (Arnold Palmer) and the Bear(Jack Nicholas) collaborated on this course.Couldn't agree more!First recorded game was in 1296USGA women's open in 1898.  Not only arethe outfits amazing, but it looks like they onlyused about [...]

"The Villages" is a city in Florida that is an active adult community, meaning middle aged and older.  Over 100,000 residents with 60,000golf carts!  All oldies all the time on the localWVLG radio station. No detail is spared [...]