Castillo de San Marcos – Oh, the Places We See . . .

Coasting: Parting shots — St. Augustine

As we prepared to say good-bye to St. Augustine, a town of many surprises, we remembered the sites that have become must-see’s for tourists: Castillo de San Marcos, Flagler College, the Oldest Wood Schoolhouse in America, etc. But we found ourselves leaning more and more toward an appreciation of the ordinary as much the tourist-book notables. Ordinary is […]

Coasting: Scenes from Castillo de San Marcos

If you’re the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, you deserve to be seen, climbed on, photographed, and written about. Right? Well, we think so. Of the three forts we toured (Fort Frederica in St. Simons, Georgia; Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, and Fort Clinch in Fernandina Beach, Florida) during our […]

Coasting: Six must-do’s in St. Augustine, Florida

This is the year! America’s oldest city, St. Augustine, Florida, celebrates its 450th anniversary! So this is your year to plan a trip and make a list — a “must-do list” for beautiful St. Augustine. Not sure what we expected, having waited until our retirement years to see St. Augustine for the first time. But […]