Amy Drew Thompson | Freelance Journalist and Editor

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

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

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

The slow, steady and not-so-hostile takeover has begun.

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

No holosuites. No replicators. (Not yet, anyway.) But this visionary developer’s project is a nanobot shy of shovel-readiness.

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

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

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