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A late Memorial Day weekend Saturday at the Daytona Beach Boardwalk, or what’s left of it. I remember coming here as a kid many times, and there’s even a family link, all of which I’ll go into in other posts other times. For now, I want to get the pics posted before I go too far down the rabbit hole again and they never get out there. So here, for your consideration, is Joyland, The Mardi Gras Family Fun Center, Pizza King, Stamie’s Swimwear, and the Daytona Beach Clock Tower.
Every fall the North Florida Fair roles into Tallahassee for roughly a week and a half of amazingly expensive fun, frolic and food. Captain Calamari and I went out to the fair grounds earlier in the week hoping to see some of the rides being put together, but found that the big ones were already…
When I was a kid we did a couple of weekend trips an hour or so north of DeLand to Silver Springs, FL, and at the time there were two major attractions to go to: Silver Springs itself, and Six Gun Territory.
I took a ride south of town this afternoon to see if there was anything already being prepared for the 2017 North Florida Fair, which run November 2 – 12, and sure enough there were a few trailers already being placed in the open field. We had such a good time last year (here and here),…
After our scouting trip on Tuesday we were all set for a fun afternoon at the North Florida Fair, and after cashing in a couple Savings Bonds to cover the costs away we went. It was a nice, somewhat cool day and thankfully the fair was not crowded at all, although by the time we…
Its been just over a year since Wild Waters in Silver Springs, FL was finally closed (a result of the State of Florida taking over it and it’s sister park, Silver Springs, as well as the aging infrastructure of the park itself and cost to maintain/upgrade). I’d been to this water park more than any…
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