Favorite Day Trips from The Villages

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What are some of your favorite day trips ? We would like to start going on some and are interested in suggestions.
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Bus trip to st Augustine to see the lights at Christmas time
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Day Trips Outside TV
Day trip to Cassadaga
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Day Trip for Anniversary
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GRAB A FRIEND AND LETS GO SOMEWHERE

I am getting emails from the new travel company that calls itself The Villages Travel. They have some really good looking day trips and even some multi day trips.
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NASA space museum, tarpon springs boat ride. Plantation inn and crystal river boat ride, charter fishing on the gulf from tarpon springs, but they discontinued that one.
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Anybody remember the Kapok Tree Inn. Kapok Tree Inn - Gaudy Excess, Clearwater, Florida

I was there years back when it was still a restaurant and want to go back and see it now.
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Great company, lots of trips. Nice bus. Have done several trip with them.
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Anybody remember the Kapok Tree Inn. Kapok Tree Inn - Gaudy Excess, Clearwater, Florida

I was there years back when it was still a restaurant and want to go back and see it now.
I ate there once when I lived in St. Pete around 1975. I heard in it's heyday it served about 4,000 people a day. I never understood why it went out of business. They had a simpler Kapok Tree Restaurant in Seminole near the Bay Pines VA Hospital.

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I ate there once when I lived in St. Pete around 1975. I heard in it's heyday it served about 4,000 people a day. I never understood why it went out of business. They had a simpler Kapok Tree Restaurant in Seminole near the Bay Pines VA Hospital.

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It was amazing. I was very young at the time but have never forgotten it.
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I have lived in The Villages for 8 years and I have been to all the places that have been mentioned and should not be missed as everyone of them is a winner but someplace I found just this summer that is never mentioned is the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. It was a wonderful day and don't miss the boat ride. It can only be taken with the admission so be sure to purchase a ticket for both...it was reasonable and a wonderful day...Plan Your Visit
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Village Tour and Travel has day trips to Winter Park. Mary and I like the one that lets you go shopping have lunch (Bosporus Turkish Food) then a Musical at the Winter Park Playhouse.
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Village Tour and Travel has day trips to Winter Park. Mary and I like the one that lets you go shopping have lunch (Bosporus Turkish Food) then a Musical at the Winter Park Playhouse.
Winter Park is very nice. We were just there to see The Morse Museum, one of the largest displays of Tiffany Glass.
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