Amy Drew Thompson | Freelance Journalist and Editor

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

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

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

If the cost of travel hinges on the cost of a barrel, how do meeting professionals offset the consequence of yet another inconvenient truth?

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

Elope. It’s an elastic word that can stretch to fit your custom definition.

Oh, but for the days when losing a few pounds was the most challenging of our new-year objectives.

Beaches smeaches. How about a side of this glittering city you never knew existed?

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