Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Everybody saw this coming.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

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frosty

We found this place on Cedar Key* last year and liked it so much we made reservations for this year when we left, so here we are again. It’s got to be the funkiest little RV park I’ve ever seen. Five motel rooms and nine RV sites (full hookups) all of them with a view of the water and great sunsets out the back. And let’s not forget the Tiki Bar which does a pretty good business, judging from the cars, pickups, and Harleys parked along the street in front of the place. I can attest that the barkeep makes a mean Rum Manhattan.

* Not one of “the” Keys, this is on the Gulf Coast north of Tampa.

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Cedar Key, FL

This is it, the entire site!

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Cedar Key, FL

Our campsite

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The motel

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Entrance to the Tiki Bar

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Tiki Bar, exterior

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View from our site, low tide.

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Sunset from our site, high tide.

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  2. 2.

    Betty Cracker

    I’ve passed by the pictured Tiki Bar many times but have never stopped — looks like a pleasant place to camp! We like Cedar Key and visit regularly, but when staying overnight, we rent places within easy walking distance of Dock St. and/or rent golf carts that aren’t allowed to cross the bridge on Hwy 24.

    Ancestors on my dad’s side were among the early settlers in Levy County, mostly Irish immigrants lured by land grants that the government doled out to displace native populations in the 1840s. I sometimes wonder what they’d think of the place if they could see it today. ;-)

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    mrmoshpotato

    Not one of “the” Keys, this is on the Gulf Coast north of Tampa.

    From your pictures, who cares!  Looks great!  Hopefully they had some local restaurants with great food to make it even better.

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    raven

    @frosty:

     

    It feels like 100 degrees and it’s not yet 10 in the morning. Without a cloud to hide behind, Jack E. Davis is wearing a black shirt, brown pants and no hat, his freckled scalp left to simmer in the sun. He never once complains about the heat—a Florida boy through and through. We’re on Cedar Key, a barrier island three miles from the mainland, about an hour west of Gainesville. The island city is a vestige of Old Florida, where some parts are only accessible by boat and generations of fishermen still ply their trade. The key is also the subject of the final chapter of Davis’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning history, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, a book The New York Times called “a beautiful homage to a neglected sea.”

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    HinTN

    @frosty: What’s that vehicle you’re using to pull that Sonic?

    Beautiful water and sunset!

    @raven: I read that on your previous recommendation. Excellent

    ETA: Sometimes the plot goes a little off the rails but Randy Wayne White captures Florida history and geography well in his Doc Ford novels.

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    Betty

    Those pictures really do give the feel of Old Florida. Seems much friendlier than DeSantis Florida.

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    HinTN

    @Betty: There are some funky places in the panhandle where the folks can be really friendly and, at the same time, the hardest of hard core Rs.

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    pieceofpeace

    The pictures reflect 1000 words that describe the feelings of kinda-funky homey Florida and dynamite sunsets.

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