Today, Norm Goldman, editor of the travel site and book Sketchandtravel review Bookpleasures site is pleased to have as our guest, travel author, Bruce Hunt, Travel Expert Florida’
Bruce is the author’s visit Small Town Florida Revised Edition, Florida? S Best Inns and Pensions, and Adventure Sports in Florida’
Norm:
Bruce good day and thanks for participating in our interview’
Norm:
Could you tell our readers something about yourself and drove him to write books about Florida?
Bruce:
I am one of those rarities? A native of Florida’ I? I lived in Tampa all my life and I? I grew up in a medium sized city in a big city with all the things that go with that? Traffic, crowds, etc’
I like Tampa, but sometimes need a break for? Big-cityness?, I like to visit places outside of the trade? Quiet and small towns where people who do not? Not even a smile, wave and say hello like you, passing on the sidewalk, where l? still fairly quiet in the middle of the day you can hear the chirping of birds and, when Mom and Pop stores and home cooking diners still exist’ I thought that there must be others like me, so I launched the idea for the first volume? Visit the small town of Florida? Pineapple to the press ten years ago’
What? T if my first book’ ? Adventure Sports in Florida? (also Pineapple Press) came first’ What? S now exhausted, but is a guide for high-adrenaline sports (skydiving, car racing, hang gliding, ballooning, cave diving, etc) and learn to do well’ I? Ai PARACHUTISME 28 years and 20 sports racing cars, was the first book of physics for me’
Some people think? S strange that I have an interest in these things, and the small town, but what can I say, I love them both’ Later? Visit the small town of Florida, is the volume 2 of this book, so what? Florida’s Finest Inns and Bed & Breakfast? Who praised? Visit the small town of Florida? series very well, and then in 2003? visit the small town of Florida, revised edition’
Norm:
Do you think the trip is an effective learning experience and we use our senses will be greatly rewarded? As a follow-up, and if you agree with this statement, are there any events or experiences that lead to this conclusion? Please specify’
Bruce:
Travel is about new experiences? Placing it in an environment completely different? Fresh images, sounds and smells’ And I think that learning more about where you are, the more you enjoy it’ What? S why I spend much time in search of sweet trivial of history at the scene and I’m going to write’ With regard to the events or experiences, I can not connect? I? I have errors such as travel expenses since I can remember’
Norm:
What is your idea of the romantic ideal and the ideal romantic hotel or B & B?
Bruce:
Quiet, quaint and private? The places that I have two questions to the list’
Norm:
Why should we consider Florida as a romantic destination?
Bruce:
Well certainly Florida has its own exotic and tropical, and the l? Be something about the beaches and water? S appealing, but I think there are? Its many historical romance in Florida too? St’ Augustine, Fernandina, Micanopy, Apalachicola, Cedar Key, Mt Dora, to name a few’
Norm:
If you choose 5 unique and romantic destinations in Florida for a wedding, which is what you believe and why?
Bruce:
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The first Palm Island should be small, a small private island facing Torch Key, about 25 miles north of Key West’ But at $ 700 – $ 1600 per night, that? It is not for everyone’
I also like the Elizabeth Pointe Lodge Fernandina Beach / Amelia Island? Looks like an old house on Cape Cod, a Marine, but in fact, built in 1992 (that? S in my coverage? Florida’s Finest Inns and B & B)’
The historic Don Cesar Hotel on St’ Pete Beach is very elegant and chic’
Along Captiva (outside Florida? S south-west of the Gulf Coast)? Shipwrecked (small hut on the beach), l ‘? Between Waters Inn, or the planting of the South Seas’
Seaside in the Panhandle between Destin and Panama? Maybe Florida? S most beautiful beach? Rent one of the many cakes bungalows’
The Herlong Mansion, a beautiful turn of the century, red brick Georgian (and perhaps haunted?) Bed & Breakfast in Micanopy? Fifteen miles south of Gainesville’
Dewey House B & B in southern (quieter) end of Duval Street in Key West’
Norm:
After the last question, which 5 hostels or B & B in Florida that you consider as the most romantic, unique, and why?
Bruce:
See the list in the previous question? But? Your list is constantly changing? Depends on what you’re feeling for’ If you ask me a month from now will give you five options’
Norm:
Five restaurants in Florida that you consider as the most romantic, unique, and why?
Bruce:
With the same disclaimer above:
Street Grill in Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island:
Bud and Alley? S at sea:
Marquesa Coffee in Old Town Key West:
Alice? The S also Duval in Key West:
Oystercatchers view of Tampa Bay:
Beach Bistro in Holmes Beach / Anna Maria Island? Because they have all the food that? Re in the picturesque settings and great locations’
Norm:
How many times a month you spend and how to travel for their choice of targets? As a follow-up, how long the stay in each city or destination before writing about them?
Bruce:
The answer to questions # 1 and # 3? The time spent on travel and how long should I stay, is it? It is very variable’ A month maybe I would have gone almost every week’ Next month, I could not even leave my office’
Regarding question # 2? Choice of destinations, as I said, tend to seek calm, out of the way places’
Almost all destinations in Florida to write about places I? I have visited many times over the years’ Choose? Visit the small town of Florida? small towns is not as simple as first thought I would’ I need a definition for the purpose of the book, and finally settled (for a point) in the city with a census population of less than 10,000′ This set of the magnitude that might be’
By slight, I decided that if he had a name, it might be a city’ Let me understand that the few small as the crossroads of two eggs? Population 31 and Cross Creek? The Yearling? Author Marjorie Rawlings? home’ Many places I knew and had already visited, but some suggestions have been friends, and some of them, just because I went to see excentriques names? As Sopchoppy, Ozello and Yeehaw Junction’
Not all the places I have visited the book? Only those where I found a good story, a good hole in the wall of the dinner, story, or something that makes the place special’
Norm:
Is there another option that you want to convey to our readers about the escapades of Florida that we have not addressed in this interview?
Bruce:
Only that there is much more than Disney and the beaches of Florida’ It l? Still far from out of the way Paliza Florida, Florida Natural, and old / historic Florida left to see, if you know where to find it? So what? The purpose of my books’
Thanks again for your input Bruce’