Looking for things to do and places to visit in the Sunshine State that don’t cost the price of a small car? For $5, you can download a copy of 100 Florida Freebies and Cheapies: Vacation Fun for $5 or Less by long-time Tampa Bay area residents Adele Woodyard and Stephen Morrill.
The book includes highlights such as Bok Tower Gardens, with its famous carillon, in Lake Wales, or Solomon’s Fantasy, a castle made entirely of junk, in the Central Florida burg of Ona.
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Teresa Mears is a publisher, writer and editor who was raised to be frugal. She was downsized last summer after nearly 30 years as an editor at newspapers ranging in size from the Portland (Tenn.) Leader to The Los Angeles Times and The Miami Herald, where she worked most recently. She moved to Florida in 1980 because it was the only place she could get a job during that recession and has lived in South Florida since 1985, in Miami, Hollywood and Fort Pierce. She also has lived on Florida’s Gulf Coast, in St. Petersburg and Inverness.