Gulf Coast Blues:
A Florida Writer's Trip
Along the Gulf of Mexico
From Key West to Pensacola


Scroll down to the last entry you haven't read and click on that title. Lower on the page is later, or more recent; higher is earlier, or older. The reverse of an archeological excavation.


Title Page and Copyright Page

Key West

Fantasy Fest '86
The Dog Days Festival Hemingway Write-Alike Contest
Brenda and I Buy a Souvenir for Owen and Balder
Florida Writer

Flamingo

Everglades National Park
Cow-Workers
Adventure Travel Correspondent
University Writing Programs

Ochopee

No More Manual Labor
Brenda and I Change Employers
The Big Cypress
We Move to My Home Town
The Cocoa Van
A Conjugal Visit
Two High-Tech Incomes
Nigger Rich
Our First Vacation

Everglades City

Everglades National Park
The Real Florida
The Rod and Gun Club
A Canoe Race Across Chokoloskee Bay
Cottage Industry

Fort Myers

Get a Job
Write For Your Life

Panacea

Florida Slim
Slim #2's Talking Blues #1
Mashes Sands
Florida's Last Frontier
TheOut Back Smoke Shack
Jack Rudloe
I Drive To Panacea

Venice

A Mullet Fisherman From Venice
He Tried

Sarasota

The Ringling Museum
John D. MacDonald

Gulfport

You Used To Could Catch Snook in Downtown Delray Beach
A Reading
Meet the Writer
20 Years Ago
An Interview

St. Petersburg

A Gallery Opening
The Kerouac House
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House
A Modest Proposal
The Paranoia-Critical Method
Poet Pretender of the State of Florida
A Huckster Tax

Clearwater

A Reading

Georgiana, Alabama

A Day Trip
Hank Williams, Sr. Boyhood Home and Museum

Tarpon Springs

I've Got Mail
The Gondolier Motel
The Small Press Conference
The Seafood Festival
Writing the Great American Novel on the IBM PC

Perry

Crystal River, Chiefland, Fanning Springs
The Pine Tree Capital of the World
Pouncey's
Digging at the Old Capitol
Minor Chord
The Folly of Ambition

Nutall Rise

On a Dig
The Concept of Culture
The Chipola River
The PI Novel
Daily Typewriting
Williams Fish Camp
The Presumption of a Life
Fear And Loathing on the Gulf Coast
Raging in the Dark
Lifetime Achievement Award

Newport

The Campground
The Café
The General Store
Diatribe Writer
Johnny Deadline
Review of Blows Like a Horn

St. Marks

I'm My Own Paparazzo
The Wildlife Refuge
The Lighthouse
The Fire Tower Site
San Marcos de Apalache
Posey's Oyster Bar
St. Marks Trail

Wakulla Springs

69 Things To Do with a Dead Princess
The Real Florida
The Jungle Cruise
The Lodge
The Diving Tower
Creaturefest 2003

Medart

The Dens of Medart
A Fork in the Road

Sopchoppy

Worm Gruntin' Festival
Been to Sopchoppy - Met the Potter
The Book and Art Tearoom

Turkey Point

The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex

Mashes Island

The House on Ocholckonee Bay
The Burial Mound

Alligator Point

The Beach Cottage
The Mutiny
The Visit of Jack Neff
Brenda and I Get Married
The Aftermath

Bald Point

A Wilderness of Mirrors
Camp Gordon Johnston

Carrabelle

The Camp Gordon Johnston Museum
Julia Mae's

Eastpoint

A Tray of Portugaises

St. George Island

The Blue Parrot
St. George Island State Park
Florida Writer II
Never Show Anyone Unfinished Work
Two Postcards From Blountstown
Introduction to Review of Blows Like a Horn

Apalachicola

Down Town Books

Money Bayou

Colored Beach

Indian Pass

The Raw Bar

Cape San Blas

The Little Red Roofs Where the Bombs Are Going To Drop
Camping with Mike and Jill
Bachelor Party
St. Joe Point

Port St. Joe

The Cemetery
St. Joe Bar


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