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Medieval Torture Museum
Next time you hear someone say
"These shoes are torturing me!" send them to visit the
Medieval Torture Museum. I'm not kidding. Saint
Augustine's newest museum is a look at a not-so-pretty
past. Remember at one time there was no law against
cruel and unusual punishment. The museum is well worth a
visit. It's well researched and historically correct.
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Florence on My Bucket List
Those who know me know I love
to write about history of the places I visit. That's why
Florence, the capital of Tuscany, is on my bucket list.
Santa Maria del
Fiore, or in English, Our Lady of the Flower, more
commonly known as
Il Duomo is just one of reasons. It took over 140
years to build and was consecrated on March 25, 1436.
DOSH up Your Summer
"Summer
time and the living is easy" as Ella Fitzgerald said in her immortal
song. This summer, living can still be easy and profitable if you
have a great new app called DOSH. Whenever you book a vacation
flight, hotel, or even make a purchase,
DOSH makes sure you get any
rebates or discounts coming to you even if you don't know about
them. It's instantaneous. You don't fill out rebate forms. You don't
dig out coupons that have hidden in the deepest part of your wallet.
You don't even have to scan your app or anything.
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They're Not Old; They're Antiques
I
love antiques. They all have a story to tell. That's why I enjoy
browsing around downtown Clinton, Tennessee's Market Street antique
district. There are over 20 individual stores with their own
personality containing hundreds of items you will never see in a
chain store. Read more
Flying on the Tin Goose
Ever
wish you could go back to the early days of flight? Well you can. I
recently flew on one of the first passenger planes ever built. It
was a treat where I learned a lot. For instance, we all associate
Henry Ford and his Model T with making auto travel available to the
general public but did you know he was a pioneer in air flight as
well? Read more
A few days in a travel writer's life can cover a lot of territory.
I'm just back from Travel South Showcase USA. What an event! For
those not familiar with Travel South Showcase, it's an annual event
to promote tourism in the member southern states. It is represents
the best of the tourism industry from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
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I must have missed something on the news while I was
traveling. When I reached Fort Rucker in Daleville, Alabama, I found
out a major overhaul of our constitution had occured! I was
there to visit the United States Army Aviation Museum, open to the
public and free to all by just showing your drivers license at the
gate. All except media that is.Read
more
Anne Frank: A History for Today
How often do you cry in a museum? If you can
visit a museum with the Anne Frank: A History for Today exhibit you
will. I visited the MOSH (Museum of Science and History) in
Jacksonville to see the exhibit about that beautiful, Jewish
girl whose life was brutally ended by Hitler's Nazi "Final
Solution." Naturally, I had read the book and
seen the film long ago. I have since seen many stories related to
her and the Holocaust. It was mandatory reading
in the late 50's and still widely used in schools today.
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My Best Airport Tips
After the horrific events at Fort Lauderdale
Airport, I thought it was time to offer some airport travel tips to
keep you safe and make the trek through the airport less of a
minefield. Nothing can guarantee you a safe trip but I intend to do
what I love most, keep traveling. I will not let deranged terrorists
scare me away. However, I will do all I can to minimize my risk and
make the "getting there" part as pleasant as possible.
Here are some of my personal favorite tips culled from lots of flights in my career as a travel writer: Read tips here
Too Close to Home?
This is all getting too close to home for me. My home state of
Florida seems to be turning into a shooting gallery. Tonight I am
watching the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting story.
It is so much closer to home for me since two of my friends, Renee Gordon, who writes regular columns for American Roads and Global Highways, and Barry Gordon, are trapped outside the airport. For more on shooting