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Florida SpectacularEpisode 70: Florida Springs with Rick Kilby (and Bottled Water Still Sucks)Send us your Florida questions!This week, hosts Cathy Salustri and Jon Kile welcome back celebrated Florida springs expert and author Rick Kilby. Rick, Orlando-based author ad graphic designer, wrote Florida's Healing Waters: Gilded Age Mineral Springs, Seaside Resorts, and Health Spas, which received the silver medal for Florida nonfiction from the Florida Book Awards and the Florida Historical Society’s Stetson Kennedy Award. Check out his website at rickkilby.comAlligator attack in springs"Pipeline" to the Aquifer"Mirage" by Cynthia BarnettWant more Florida? Subscribe to...2022-07-2044 minFlorida SpectacularEpisode 69: Summertime in Florida (Embrace the Heat)Send us your Florida questions!This week hosts Jon Kile and Cathy Salustri talk about their favorite summer experiences – and how they don't "beat" the Florida heat, but instead embrace it. Love Florida but don't love the heat? This is the podcast for you. Links we mentioned: UtilikiltReef-safe sunscreenWant more Florida? Subscribe to The Florida Spectacular newsletter, and keep up with Cathy's travels at greatfloridaroadtrip.com. Follow Jon's road trip adventures at Don't Make Me Turn This Van Around. Have a Florida question or com...2022-07-1355 minFlorida SpectacularEpisode 68: Florida Springs and Why Bottled Water is the DevilSend us your Florida questions!Today hosts Cathy Salustri and Jon Kile talk about the magic of Florida springs, their favorite springs, and why bottled water is, indeed, the Devil. With almost 1000 springs in Florida, they didn't talk about them all, but today's episode is a great start.Links we mentionedNestle protests about pumping water out of the Santa Fe RiverTampa Bay Times editorial on savin Florida springsBlue Springs State ParkSeven Sisters SpringsThree SistersCave diving...2022-07-0743 minFlorida SpectacularEpisode 67: St. Augustine, Flager Beach, and Florida Camping in a (Smaller) RVSend us your Florida questions!This week on The Florida Spectacular, hosts Cathy Salustri and Jon Kile talk about northeast Florida, including St. Augustine's African American Trail, Lincolnville, Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area (and great oceanside campground) in Flagler Beach, Anastasia State Park, Faver-Dykes State Park, Washington Oaks Gardens, and the St. Augustine Alligator Farm. Have a Florida travel question or want to know more about something we mentioned? Drop us a line.Want more Florida? Subscribe to The Florida Spectacular newsletter, and keep up with Cathy's travels at greatfloridaroadtrip.com.F...2022-06-2249 minFlorida SpectacularEpisode 58: Florida's Adventure Coast (Brooksville and Weeki Wachee)Send us your Florida questions!This week, your hosts Cathy Salustri and Jon Kile talk to John Athanason, who spent almost two decades doing marketing for the world's most famous mermaids – the Weeki Wachee mermaids! Last year, he started working with Florida's Adventure Coast Visitors Bureau, and he joins the podcast ready to talk about the best places along Florida's Adventure Coast (think Brooksville and Weeki Wachee) – including some you've probably never hear of, much less visited.Links we mentioned:Tourism websiteChinsegutDowntown BrooksvilleWithlacoochee State Fore...2022-04-1241 minFlorida SpectacularEpisode 57: DeSantis vs. DisneySend us your Florida questions!This week, "The Florida Spectacular" hosts Cathy Salustri and Jon Kile talk about Disney, Reedy Creek, and Ron DeSantis – as well as the PeopleMover, Disney prices, and why there are no mosquitoes at Walt Disney World.Want more Florida? Subscribe to The Florida Spectacular newsletter, and keep up with Cathy's travels at greatfloridaroadtrip.com.Support the showQuestion or comment? Email us at cathy@floridaspectacular.com. Subscribe to The Florida Spectacular newsletter, and keep up with Cathy's travels at...2022-04-0551 minFlorida SpectacularEpisode 56: Literary St. PetersburgSend us your Florida questions!This week :The Florida Spectacular" welcomes a new co-host, Jon Kile. Jon's a Florida-based writer who loves Worldle but hates Wordle, loves to camp with his family in and out of the state, and posts tales of his adventures at dontmakemeturnthisvanaround.com. Cathy and Jon talk with Maureen McDole about the upcoming SunLit literary festival (produced by Keep St. Pete Lit) the antiquarian book fair, and the St. Petersburg area's cultural and fishing mashup.Links we mentioned:SunLit Festival (April 1-3, 2022)SunLit on Facebook2022-03-2944 minFlorida SpectacularEpisode 6: RVing through FloridaSend us your Florida questions!Jon Kile talks about RVing through Florida with his kids and wife, and how his travels in a Dodge Ram turned Florida travel into a way of life for his family. dontmakemeturnthisvanaround.comThe Grandfather Clock by Jon KileVEDSFort De Soto CampgroundChassahowitzka River CampgroundSuwannee River State Park CampgroundJohn Pennekamp State ParkBahia Honda State ParkLong Key State ParkThe Key Marco Cat2021-01-1947 min