An adventurous life doesn’t have to mean expensive trips that begin with passport stamps (although we love those too). You can find an adventure to feed your soul nearby too!
We hope our adventures big and small inspire you to add/fit some adventure into your life!
Recent Articles
- Florida’s Space Coast: Rockets, Wildlife & Life at the Launch Pad
- Visiting Greece: Mythology, Ancient History & the Moments That Stop You Cold
- Key West & the Florida Keys: History, Music & the Creative Spirit at the End of the Road
- Visiting New Orleans: History, Food & What Makes This City Unlike Anywhere Else
- Visiting Weeki Wachee Springs State Park: Florida’s Legendary Mermaid Kingdom
- Visiting Florida’s Space Coast: How to Watch Rocket Launches (and Witness History in the Making)
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LEGENDARY CHART HOUSE OF KEY WEST
Only in Key West could a real treasure hunter sit in a motel room-turned-bar, tended by an actual gun-running pirate smuggler, while charting his search for a lost Spanish treasure ship. All the while listening to one of the most influential musicians to ever sing about the Caribbean.
Discover our complete Florida Keys guide here.
West Virginia’s Cryptids: Legends & Lore
The Mothman, the Flatwoods Monster, the Sheepsquatch — West Virginia has more documented cryptid sightings per capita than almost anywhere in the country. Here’s your guide to the legends.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: The Florida Farm That Inspired a Pulitzer Prize
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings left New York for a Florida orange grove in 1928 with no farming experience. What she found there won the Pulitzer Prize. Her home at Cross Creek is preserved exactly as she left it.
The Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Site: The Road Where It Ended
On May 23, 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were killed on a rural Louisiana road. The site is still there, still quiet, and still worth the drive.
Thomas Jefferson Beale: Ciphers, Treasure & the Mystery Nobody Has Solved
In 1885, a pamphlet described buried treasure worth millions in Bedford County, Virginia — protected by three encrypted ciphers. Only one has ever been decoded. The other two have defeated cryptographers for 140 years.
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Fitting in Adventure has been sharing offbeat history and real-world travel since 2014, when Vince — fresh off years in the Air Force seeing “the places no one wants to go” — and Angela decided it was time to see the places everyone should. What started as friends asking for recommendations has grown into Historic Footnotes, our deep-dive series uncovering the stories behind America’s most overlooked places.
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