The Mayport Ferry and Jacksonville's Only-Here Ways to Get Around

Have you taken the ferry yet? You come around the last bend of A1A in Mayport, past the shrimp boats tied up with their nets furled like folded wings, and the road just ends at the water. There is a ramp, a gate, a line of cars, and a man in a reflective vest waving you forward with the unhurried au

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Shingle, Metal or Tile: What Living Under a Florida Roof Is Like

What Does Your Roof Sound Like in a Florida Afternoon Storm? It's four o'clock in August and the sky over the treeline has gone the color of a bruise. The air stops moving. Somewhere down the street a wind chime goes off all at once, and then the first fat drops hit. Thirty seconds later it's a wall

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Moving From Maine, New Hampshire or Vermont to Northeast Florida

Ready To Stop Ordering Heating Oil in August? The woodpile is the tell. Every year in late summer you stack it, and every year you stand back and look at it and do the math on whether it's enough. Four cord? Five, if the winter runs long. You've gotten good at reading a season before it arrives. The

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