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Nostalgic Trip to Florida’s Cypress Gardens

Travel Photo Thursday

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Sadly, it is true that you can’t go home again. Even more sad, you can’t even travel to the same spots you loved in the past.

In case you missed the classic Florida attraction, Cypress Gardens, before it became a Legoland theme park, we’re taking a little nostalgia trip today. I visited Cypress Gardens in 1998. It was a not-to-be-missed attraction on my first trip to Florida, since I had grown up with newsreel shots of those beautiful girls on water skis. Continue reading Nostalgic Trip to Florida’s Cypress Gardens