Turkey Creek Sanctuary in Palm Bay, Florida is my favorite place to take a hike and enjoy nature. The hiking trails are actually beautiful boardwalks that meander through the 100-acre nature sanctuary, making it possible for people with strollers or wheelchairs to also enjoy the scenery. Of further interest, many of the boardwalk boards are ...
My mother, sister and I would have special afternoons together in Connecticut when we went to the dentist’s office in downtown Hartford. We would all get on the city bus, arrive near the dentist’s office, and after our appointments would walk to G. Fox and Company and do a bit of Nancy Drew shopping on ...
Driving into the desolate area known to local Palm Bay residents as ‘The Compound’, is like being plopped into a zombie lurking, post-apocalyptic landscape. One moment you’re in a normal residential neighborhood, and then everything changes to mile-after-mile of abandoned, yet paved, roads. Expecting homes? You won’t find any here — not even a foundation. ...
Finding the beginnings of the Palm Bay Parkway a few weeks ago really took me by surprise. You see, I’ve been hearing rumors of a parkway running along the western edges of Palm Bay, Florida for probably twenty years. And every time I’d get my hopes up, and drive around investigating, it would turn out ...
The Florida Constitution promises a trial by jury, freedom of speech, and does not allow pregnant pigs to be confined in cages, and that is only one of many strange laws in the state. According to Number 10 Constitutional Amendment Article X, Section 19, because the inhumane treatment of animals is a concern to citizens, ...