Daytona Boardwalk Midway – Dark and Empty
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…
Daytona Beach just after Hurricane Matthew, October 13, 2016. This first group of pictures is on A1A and the Hilton Hotel. The hotel I was originally booked in for the night, The Plaza, didn’t are too well as you can see; in fact it looked a bit like The Tower of Terror in one picture. The…
I’d heard a while back that Wet ‘n Wild, the first major water-theme park in Central Florida (and at the time of its opening in 1977 the largest in the world), was closing this year, and honestly thought it had already done so. Last week when we were down there (more on that in other…
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.
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…
I stayed a night at the recently renovated Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach (I’m still deciding on whether I review that here or not, but for now suffice it to say I wasn’t impressed), and I was able to take a few shots of some neat old houses and buildings around the hotel, which I…