Trips through the real Leonida
Day-by-day itineraries that string the real places together: Vice City in three days, the Keys road trip, a day in the Everglades, the Panhandle and the springs.
Three days in Vice City
Three days across Miami Beach, downtown and the bay: the Art Deco strip, the lifeguard towers, the causeways, the Wynwood murals and the stilt houses that Vice City borrows from.
The Leonida Keys road trip
Three days down the Overseas Highway, from the Card Sound back road to Duval Street, past the canal homes, tiki bars, mangrove channels and the long bridge that shape Jason's home turf.
A day in Grassrivers
One long day west out of Miami on the Tamiami Trail and back on Alligator Alley: an airboat, Shark Valley's alligators, the Big Cypress boardwalks, the tiniest post office and a stone crab town.
A Port Gellhorn weekend
Two days on the Panhandle: the faded motel strip and fishing pier of Panama City Beach, the white sand at St. Andrews, the working port, and a drive out along the Forgotten Coast.
Springs and forest: the Mount Kalaga loop
Two days through Florida's interior: glass-bottom boats at Silver Springs, the Ocala pine forest, fish camps on Lake George, a swim at Rainbow Springs, then south through cattle country and cane fields to Clewiston.