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"OPA!!!" or Our Big Fat Greek Tour

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Tarpon Springs, FL                           Hickory Point RV Park Sept. 20 - 22, 2020 We couldn’t believe how lucky we were to start out with 68 degree temperature and overcast skies, but no rain yet & not the wind that was predicted. Hope our luck holds today! . M and D decided that the incumbent sheriff up on the Big Bend definitely wins the most billboards and signs award. Crazy number of signs everywhere!!! It’s amazing so many of them survived Hurricane Sally. We also saw the funniest RV sign. The  Ho Hum RV Park  is right on the Gulf of Mexico. Couldn’t see if they had any amenities? We wouldn’t have wanted to weather Hurricane Sally there since all the campers were sideways to the water. Yikes!!  There are such a vast amount of slash pine forests up this way you quickly understand why lumber and turpentine industries developed along with seafood. As you drive along 98 you will see a lin...
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Nature/Forgotten Coast or The Big Bend - Part One

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Apalachicola, FL   “More than 900 historic homes and buildings from the National Historic District , dating from the 1830s, can be seen on the city’s walking tour. Included are cotton warehouses, which housed Apalachicola’s cotton export during the 1800s, a sponge exchange and Victorian homes of former lumber magnates...  Mom, dad and I couldn't believe how many grand Victorian homes that were still standing although some were better maintained than others...Mom especially loved the way some of these "painted ladies" were painted! Behind the Orman house was a lovely botanical garden with a wonderful walking path and next to it was a Veteran's Memorial Park. “On our way inside  Orman House  we stopped to feel the cotton plants growing along the path to the front porch -- a nod to the 1830s when Apalachicola was the third-largest cotton shipping port in the United States, after New Orleans and Mobile Ala.  Ranger Roundtree told us that we were free to roam the gro...
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