Florida "freebies" and "cheapies" 250 Daytrips for Little or No Money (2012)

You'll like this travel guidebook if you

• Need to get away for a day, a weekend or a weekwithout spending a mint
• Have already taken the family to visit Mickey, fly with Harry Potter, get wet with Shamu
• Want to discover new attractions yet still see old favorites
• Enjoy outdoor sights, smells and activities

• 104 "freebies" *(donation welcome); only 10 with $10 *(plus tax) adult admission
• Depending on age, air, railroad, military and hands-on museums; wildlife attractions
• Art, antiques, architecture, archaeology, ecology, gardens, history, preserves
• 65 state parks, one county, includes historic sites, springs (swim, scuba, cave dive, tubing); Such activities as boating, fishing, nature, hiking, biking, sometimes horseback riding. 35 state and the one county park have full facility campsites for overnights. Back-of-book lists 19 cabins, most fully equipped, for those with neither tent or RV..Admission to most Florida state parks is by carload (2 to 8 people); 0 to $8

Reviews:

Well done. Packed with information, easy to read, well organized.

...Robert Jenkins, former Travel editor, St. Petersburg Times

Woodyard has uncovered a treasure trove of Florida gems.

...Capt. "Rick" Rhodes, author Florida's Big Bend

ISBN: 978-0-9831069-2-0
Paperback 6 x 9", 145 pages
List Price: $9.95

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Tarpon Springs, FL 346888

THE SHELL AND THE STARFISH and other stories

Adele Woodyard

Fourteen short stories ask, and sometimes answer, life’s questions
A look at love, marriage, infidelity and divorce; crime, illness and aging through the eyes of a man or a woman.
Opening lines are from award winning and/or previously published short stories:

The Shell and the Starfish
Damn it, Casey thought blinking back angry tears, I never should have signed up for this Caribbean trip.
Awarded H.M. Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest

The Storm The fishing pier at Bayport is an unsteady wooden addition to the rock-walled parabola of land. Harry Dawson leans his bulk against the waist-high railing and peers below him.
First Place, Fiction: TWA contest. Published Wordsmith; Time Out Tampa Bay

Song of the Family I stared at two gold rings behind the glass, feeling trapped in a dirty pocket of a recessed doorway. “Why do you want to get married?”
St Anthony Messenger

Two for the Money
Ten o’clock in the morning and already the day was hot and muggy. Detective Dave Johnson wiped his brow, stuck the handkerchief in a back pocket, and glanced once again at the missing person report that had come in during the night
Futures MYSTERY Anthology Magazine

A Day at the Beach
“Isn’t anyone watching that child?” the old man demanded.
St. Anthony Messenger

Author Adele Woodyard has won awards for both fiction and non-fiction. A member of American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) hundreds of her articles and photographs have appeared in such publications as Delta SKY, AARP the Magazine, Civil War Times Illustrated, Highways, St. Petersburg Times, Miami Herald, Chicago Sun Times, among many others, since 1988. Adele co-authored a Florida travel guide in 2009, and is currently working on Florida “freebies” and “cheapies” — 250 Daytrips for Little or No Money. Visit her weekly blog at www.vacationfunflorida.wordpress.com

Category: Fiction-Collection short stories
Format: Trade paperback; 140 pages
ISBN 978-0-9831069-0-6
On Sale: January, 2011
Price: $7.99