Comments on: Vacationing in the Florida Panhandle with Kids http://bestkidfriendlytravel.com/2009/01/26/vacationing-in-the-florida-panhandle-with-kids/ Your one-stop shop for family vacations: Reviews. Trips. Savings. By parents, for parents. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:50:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Duncan family http://bestkidfriendlytravel.com/2009/01/26/vacationing-in-the-florida-panhandle-with-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-2211 Duncan family Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:24:24 +0000 http://bestkidfriendlytravel.com/?p=575#comment-2211 We "kids" in the "baby-boom" generation spent our summers there in the Santa Rosa Beach area (Dune Allen) when the screen doors banged behind you as you walked into an un-air-conditioned everything store to pay for your gasoline, some groceries, and a newspaper, also to catch up with locals who hung out there. The old post office at the intersection of 133 and 98 was a box of a building with the post office box holes and the same mail person who had been there forever (Coreen Bishop was mail lady when the post office moved across 98 and westward a bit to a strip mall, but I was too young to remember the mail person when the PO was in its original state). So many memories, long before the gulf road S-30A went all the way from the 98 entry at the east end to the 98 entry at the west end, nearly to Sand Destin. Because the road didn't go through, and because our beach house was on a dune far from the road, we parked and walked out groceries to the house--over blazing hot sand with the sun beating down to the un-air-conditioned beach house. Ah, those were the days. Still a great place for children with many, many things to do, still the best things to do there are free and need to be discovered. They are not advertised and not for sale. And that is what make them memorable and great for growing children. We “kids” in the “baby-boom” generation spent our summers there in the Santa Rosa Beach area (Dune Allen) when the screen doors banged behind you as you walked into an un-air-conditioned everything store to pay for your gasoline, some groceries, and a newspaper, also to catch up with locals who hung out there. The old post office at the intersection of 133 and 98 was a box of a building with the post office box holes and the same mail person who had been there forever (Coreen Bishop was mail lady when the post office moved across 98 and westward a bit to a strip mall, but I was too young to remember the mail person when the PO was in its original state). So many memories, long before the gulf road S-30A went all the way from the 98 entry at the east end to the 98 entry at the west end, nearly to Sand Destin. Because the road didn’t go through, and because our beach house was on a dune far from the road, we parked and walked out groceries to the house–over blazing hot sand with the sun beating down to the un-air-conditioned beach house. Ah, those were the days.

Still a great place for children with many, many things to do, still the best things to do there are free and need to be discovered. They are not advertised and not for sale. And that is what make them memorable and great for growing children.

]]> By: jbird http://bestkidfriendlytravel.com/2009/01/26/vacationing-in-the-florida-panhandle-with-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-1204 jbird Mon, 11 May 2009 19:30:20 +0000 http://bestkidfriendlytravel.com/?p=575#comment-1204 Great article, and good insight into panhandle vacations. I am a little disappointed I didn't see Perdido Key on the list, but then again it is the 'lost' key :) Maybe it's a good thing so many people don't yet know about this paradise. They have a great new site to help planning a trip there: http://perdidochamber.com/default/index.cfm Great article, and good insight into panhandle vacations.

I am a little disappointed I didn’t see Perdido Key on the list, but then again it is the ‘lost’ key :) Maybe it’s a good thing so many people don’t yet know about this paradise.

They have a great new site to help planning a trip there:
http://perdidochamber.com/default/index.cfm

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