Sarasota area: Shopping, fine dining, history, beaches
By JOHN TISCHNER Suncoast News Editor Hernando Today
White sandy beaches, tropical gulf breezes and shopping, shopping, shopping will put you in a grand mood after a visit to this beachfront community just south of the Tampa Bay area.
A short trip on Interstate 75 delivers tourists and daytime visitors to this mecca called Sarasota, home of St. Armand's Circle, where the elite shop and play.
Web site ranks region as good travel deal
It might not always seem like it to those of us with out-of-town visitors, but discount travel site Hotwire.com says Tampa-St. Petersburg-Sarasota offers one of the nation's best travel deals
Getaways: Easygoing isle - Florida's Siesta Key a favorite Gulf retreat
By Jeff Book -Coastal Living magazine
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Over millenniums, sand grains were carried by rivers into the Gulf and down the coast," reads a landmark plaque on Siesta Key. It goes on, but the message boils down to this: In the beginning was the beach.
From the Boca Beacon - Island fishing gets top rating from magazine
Boca Grande,FL,USAB
The week of April 15, 2005
... on the stands now. The island is ranked along with Siesta Key, Indian River Lagoon and Timballer Bay, La. "These were just the ones ...
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Siesta Key & Siesta Key Bungalows In the News
Where to retire in style
We get it: You're consumed with golf. Or fly-fishing. Or you dream of retiring someplace where the surf is up - but taxes aren't. Whatever your fixation, we found the best place in the country to make your retirement fantasy a reality.
by Ellen Florian Kratz, FORTUNE Magazine
June 21, 2006: 2:07 PM EDT
From the New York Times - WEEKEND WITH THE KIDS: SARASOTA; Families Plus Florida, But Minus Disney
By ANNE GLUSKER
Published: February 20, 2005
LOOKING for the immediate gratifications of a family vacation in Florida without the nonstop glamour of Miami Beach or the thrill-a-minute hyperactivity of Orlando?
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