Who Wants To Party In Palatka?
Until Tim and Cyndee Hill, my landlords in Cape Coral, Fla., and general partners in go-fast boating shenanigans, persuaded me otherwise, I was done with on-site event coverage for 2025. Last week’s Key West, Fla., affairs were it. For coverage of the upcoming Toys Tour event, December 4-6 in Palatka, Fla., my phone was going to get a workout from wherever I was those days, which also happen to be my birthday weekend.
The Toys Tour will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. Photo by Mike Goode.
You wouldn’t know it from social media because I don’t check in at airports to announce my pending destinations—a popular but odd practice I never understood—but I covered 35 boating events on scene this year and another 30-something using phone and email. I have a ton of personal travel ahead including San Diego for Thanksgiving, Chicago for Christmas and out of the country for New Years. So I was content to let that be the last of it for the year.
But that wasn’t enough for the Hills, the power-couple behind the Fort Myers Offshore scholarship fundraising club in Southwest Florida. They lobbied me hard to join them for the 25th annual Palatka affair and I folded like a wet taco.
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