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Starke Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Starke, United States
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Florida is far away ...
Ok, Florida takes a lot longer to get to than we thought! It doesn't help if you go to bed late, oversleep, take a detour to Spruce Pine, and stop every hour. I wish that we had something cool to say about our trip so far, but basically, we just drove ...
Quicky overview & wrap up
So I blew this travel write up. Here is a late wrap up/ I made it to Camp Blanding. Had to get a homeland security background check done in advance to get onto the National Guard base. When I rolled up I expected a post 9/11 cement barriers & M16's ...
Micanopy and Cross Creek
"Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all to time." ...
J. T. returns and a visit to Marjorie's grave
"My father told me, 'If any man calls you a liar and you don't knock hell out of him, I'll kick your behind even if I am a hundred years old and you're seventy-five.' Faced with that predicament, I am careful about what I say or write. Even as ...
A North Central Florida Adventure, RS #6651
... ; On another RS program we had met a couple who shared how much they had enjoyed participating in this program in Starke, FL. They told us how J.T. Glisson was a featured speaker and a delightful story-teller. Immediately it went on my RS ...
South Bound n Down.
... Macon before rush hour & hop on I75S for the long shot to Valdosta, GA. The sun comes up & its clear as a bell outside. I do the roadside reminder with the Dept of Agriculture & then its an effortless ride through Starke and into Camp ...
Paynes Prairie State Park---Wild Florida
"Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed...We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in." ...
J.T. Glisson and sailing, fishing, exploring
"The Bridge was the common meeting place. It was really the capital of Cross Creek, and we only grudgingly recognized the state and national capitals in Tallahassee and Washington. In our thinking the proud old structure was a point of beginning ...
Day 2, Feb. 28, 2011
... a guy! I was crusin’ down I95 between 70 & 75 mph. The thermometer on my car said 86°. We arrived at Starke (silent e) FL and our Days Inn Motel at 5 pm – much nicer than Super 8. We decided to lounge around the pool for ...
Packing
We were running around at the last minute trying to pack everything needed for 6 weeks, but we finished and we are about to go to sleep. Later today we catch a plane to Las Vegas. I hope we have everything. If not I guess we can buy it ...
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