Amy Drew Thompson | Freelance Journalist and Editor

More people may know Pussy Galore than Mata Hari, but is Hari’s lasting legacy even based on fact?

Built by pirates, enjoyed by presidents, few places wear fame and infamy as comfortably as legendary Key West.

The vision for young gay people has widened to include children, marriage, military service. And now —football.

Longing for splendid sunsets, sublime diving and a taste of the Jimmy Buffet lifestyle? Sail away to Key Largo.

There’s no mellower way to enjoy natural Florida than from the smooth, snug confines of an inner tube.

Family-friendly Orlando, perennial city of “sugar and spice and everything nice,” has a deliciously demented dark side.

It’s Friday night in St. Petersburg, and in a parking lot off 49th Street folks are drinking beer and talking cars.

They can. They should. And they do. Get over it.

Two hours or so paddling the river and I was relieved to find that I had, indeed, married the right person.