September 14, 2008 – The Drive Home!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.14, 2008, under Books
After the Dlorida Outdoor Writers Association meeting, I made my way north home out of Punta Gorda. sandra went south towards Fort Myers to research an artible and update her travel guides.
I was also on a mission to photograph as much of Genuine Florida as I could. Click here to see a small bit about the murals of Punta Gorda I photographed. I took US 17 north, what would be considered the looooong way home. I zigged and zagged in and out of all sorts of nearly lost communities in our great state of Florida. I took photos in places like Fort Ogden, Nocatee, Brownsville all the way to Bartow. After eight hours of stopping and starting and running around with the camera the sun settled as I tried to get all the photos I could in Bartow at the Oak Hill Cemetary where a hero of mine, Jacob Summerlin, is buried. With the sun out the two and a half hours home was more of a straight shot up US17, 98 to 75.
One of the longest stops I made was in Arcadia where at one time the wildest of Florida’s wild west was enacted. Of the many stops, one was at Crackerhouse Books. Dan, the owner has restored a historic home and has a terrific variety of books. Below are two great covers. One is by the swashbuckling actor Errol Flynn. The other is a classic Florida book by Robert Wilder. I have the hardcover, but didn’t know about the softcover.
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