Miami, the most populous city in Florida, is a large tourist destination. It is a major urban center, with a heavy emphasis on finance, commerce, music, tourism, the arts, and international trade (it is a deep water port). You’ll find many corporate headquarters located here, and it is a home port for many cruise lines. [...]
Monster Splash Nighttime Halloween Bash at the Maimi Seaquarium
October 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The Miami Seaquarium offers ghoulish fun in a kid-friendly environment with its Monster Splash Nighttime Halloween Bash, a four night Halloween adventure. You can feel scared, while still doing good, and hang out with some of the best creatures around! This Halloween event features age appropriate activities for the entire family, including: Trick-or-treating with costumes [...]
10 Foolish & Foolhardy Travel Tips
April 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment
In honor of April Fools Day, here’s a list of foolish and foolhardy actions that are a foolproof way to make getting through airport security as painfully slow as possible: Wear metal studded pants. You can’t take them off and put them through the metal detector, so they’re going to have to wand you. What [...]
Florida: The 27th State
March 3, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Today is Admission Day for Florida, our 27th state, admitted to the Union on March 3rd, 1845. Florida is located in the southeastern part of the country, with the Atlantic Ocean flanking one side, and the Gulf of Mexico the other. Ponce de Leon named it, and many believe that it was in Florida that [...]
Pirate Fun in Key West, November 30th-December 3rd
November 22, 2006 By Leave a Comment
After yesterday’s cold post, I wanted to get back to my warm comfort zone. In this case, that means Key West for the Pirates in Paradise Festival, November 30th-December 3rd. All sorts of scurrilous sorts will appear for reenactments of pirate battles on the high seas, along with the National Walk the Plank Championships. You [...]
Orlando: Get Spooked at SeaWorld
October 3, 2006 By Leave a Comment
If you want to splurge for Halloween, you could try Orlando’s SeaWorld Spooktacular, where kids get to combine artificial trick-or-treating events with artificial sea life. It may seem plastic and artificial, but kids love it, and there’s no disputing it’s safe. Included with the price of park admission, Spooktacular includes trick-or-treating at 15 different stations [...]
15 Tourist Traps — or Not!
September 5, 2006 By Leave a Comment
A recent MSN article listed 15 tourist traps that the writer recommended avoiding, claiming they weren’t worth the time and/or money. I disagree with most of them, believing that they are things you need to do at least once in your life. Read my reasoning here, compare with MSN writer Jon Douglas here, and then [...]
Mad as Hell: America's Angriest Cities
August 27, 2006 By Leave a Comment
New pal, and AOL City Guide, Andie Taylor, tipped me off to a study of the 100 angriest cities in the United States. It was a big surprise for me to learn that Orlando, Florida was found to be the angriest city. Is it too much Disney-mania? Too much fake touristy niceness? The study, commissioned [...]
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