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DeLand Florida, A Step Back and a Step Forward In Time, Part 1 of Two Chapters

Stepping out Friday nights at the Artisan Alley Farmers Market with Georgia, Barb and Teddy Roosevelt.
Pat & Toni’s Sweet Things! Talk about a treat to the eyes and tongue. Best candies we remember tasting, ever!!
Taste test offered-hard to ever forget!
Pat & Toni’s offeres everyone some of the sweetest tastes, anywhere!!
Breakfast at DeLeon Springs State Park at the Old Sugar Mill Pancake House and Fountain of Youth Boat Rides. Here, you cook your own pancakes, eggs and all the meat fixin’s you can want. This couple drove hours to enjoy the park and have breakfast there too! Sparkle Rex was our contact. She was terrific!! Go Floridastateparks.org to see all this park has to offer

American Press Travel News-Bob and Barb “On the Road Again.” June 14th-June 17th–We contacted our very favorite tourism specialist; Georgia Carter Turner to develope a visit itinerary to DeLand Florida, located in Volusia County. We rolled in to town on June 14th, and moved into a very comfortable apartment at True Trail Farms –www.mddensmore@yahoo.com Mike and Kathy Densmore, the owners were very welcoming and we found they loved farm animals and they had a bunch of them. We were also greeted by the goats, turkeys and more chickens than Kentucky Fried could have handled. DeLand is a bit like old time Florida meeting up with the modernity of today! After settling in at True Tails Farms, we headed into town to the Half Wall (half the wall was covered by beer taps) for a delightful dinner. For dessert, we went next door to Davids Sweet Things. David was the most  affable and interesting man we encountered during our adventure to DeLand.

GO: VisitWestVolusia.com and see all the greatness that this area has to offer. (end of part 1 of our DeLand Adventure, see part two shortly)

Diary of a Half-Back Lifestyle

A model Florida Crawfish aka, lobster.

Miss Kitty, my favorite farm member. Now gone!!

American Press Travel News—3/29/2021—Bob and Barb “On the Road Again”—-Why do we travel half way back to our old home, VT, to TN., from Southern Florida? Summers in Florida are humid. With my deviated septum (partially blocked nostril) I have a hard time breathing in heavy humidity. So, when the cooler  winter and spring breezes, with their lesser humidity devolve into more summer-like conditions, even starting from the first day of spring, we head for the hills of TN.. In Florida we eat seafood, in TN. its beef, chicken and garden vegetables. Fishing in Florida its sea fishes, in TN. its crappie and trout, and our favorite walleye pike. I can breathe in TN., and love the cool breezes throughout spring, summer and fall.

We live on a small farm at about 2000-feet above sea level. When the summer heats up all around our plateau, we are 8-10 degrees cooler than all the other areas, cities and towns, and just about every night is a no-AC needed event.

As an author, I find it easier to work at our farm in TN. than in Florida. Florida has too many things going on, and this causes me to divert, and avert my time from putting finger tips to keys.  However, the Keys is truly a paradise for a fisherman, like me. With boating, searching for marlin and dolphin fish, the schools of tuna, the occasional wahoo, I get lost in the Gulf Stream of life. My preference these days is to sight fish for permit, bonefish, seatrout, snook, and redfish inshore, in quiet waters.

My sons David and Brian were brought up in the Keys, and were my nearly constant companion on my favorite boat “The Shalom.” That is until their fancy turned to girls and cars. We gathered our own shrimp and saltwater crawfish called Florida Lobster ( I still prefer the real northern- waters kind, with succulent claws and tail).   Today, my sons have a fine boat that they own and enjoy, I have my farm and when I can visit the Keys to be with my boys and their life’s experiences!  STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!!!!

Coastal Realty, Home to Partner Agents, David and Morgan Have Your keys To Your Keys!!

American  Press Travel News-March  27th,  Islamorada, Florida Keys–David Epstein and Morgan Fox, real estate  partners  for Coastal Realty  of The Florida Keys,  probably has your dream home or business opportunity ready and waiting for you right now.  From vacation rentals, to all manner of Keys businesses, calling Dave and Morgan, can put you in touch with delightful couple of people, that are as easy and low pressure as the Keys in a breeze can be. Some  of  the  best  restaurants,  fishing,  diving,  boating  awaits  visitors, and home, and  rental visitors,  throughout  the island  chain.  Give  a  call  to  Dave  or  Morgan.  You  will  love  dealing  with  them  over  a shrimp  cocktail  and  some  conch  chowder  and  fritters.  305-800-KEYS (5397)  Call  and  ask  for  Dave  and Morgan. CHECK OUT THE IMAGES YOU CAN EXPERIENCE IN THE FABULOUS FLORIDA KEYS~

Beautiful Woman Scuba Diving

Jose Wejebe was a wonderful guy and angler. He is gone now in a plane crash and the young man in his teens is also gone now. He succumbed to CF.

Gorgeous wall decor at the Fishery Restaurant!
Son Brian became a pal of big Bertha in our Keys backyard. Always made sure she had a good drink during her winter-over behind our home in deep warmer waters of winter!

Florida Keys Local, Joins Coastal Friends In Real Estate Sales, Rentals, Special Events, and Wedding Venues

The Upper Keys most famous residents. Captain Key Largo, Brian is visiting with them-Tarpon!!
David loves the Keys and Florida lobster on the weekend. Who doesn’t?

American Press Travel News–February 11th,–Islamorada, Florida Keys-David Epstein joined the local professional real estate folks at Coastal. He is working with their team  to assist in all manner of real estate programs. Yes, David is my eldest son, but I only brag on the best people who are “people, people”, Dave loves to work with good peeps. His brother Brian is Captain Key Largo. Dave can find great realty, Brian great fishing opportunities. Both of them were brought up in the Keys, and went to all Upper Keys schools. Their friends are called “Keys Kids”, even though they are all over 50-years old, and the Keys has always been their home. Some left, but the lure of the Keys has brought most of them back. The siren call of the Keys is hard to ignore, it stays in your blood and psyche, forever!

Lets face it: Key real estate is pricy, but great rentals are also available at similar costs to all other water front locations throughout Florida. I love the Keys,I will always treasure the decades my wife Barb and I lived their and brought up our boys with respect and to respect nature and people who also respect the best thing life has to offer. Give Dave a call on his cell phone if you want to sell, or buy, rent, or even for any travel information and specifics about the Keys!  (305) 394 5350 You will love the little fishing and diving village of Islamorada, even just to visit!!