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(Away from) Home for the

Holidays

Reimagine Thanksgiving weekend and the holiday season as a time to explore the Sunshine State with or without the fam.

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Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River

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(Away from) Home for the Holidays

Reimagine Thanksgiving weekend and the holiday season as a time to explore the Sunshine State with or without the fam.

BY JULIE GARISTO Times Correspondent

Crystal River Heritage Village Photo by Julie Garisto

The old tune tells us “there’s no place like home for the holidays” but in Florida, sunny and mildly cool days tempt us to venture outside our living rooms to explore possibilities beyond our domestic comfort zone.

Whether you’re alone this season or just need a break from the

Brooksville Courthouse

same ol’, same ol’, it’s time to break out and explore the many facets of Florida — quaint, small-town settings that aren’t too crowded, places that won’t put you in close quarters with others but fill you with a warm, cozy nostalgia for simpler times.

Here are some destinations that are one-tank trips and won’t deplete your savings account: Mount Dora, around two hours from Tampa Bay, is a tiny mountain that perches over a picturesque lake. From stately homes to boutiques to galleries, antique shops and contemporary eateries, it’s by far one of the best smalltown historic quarters to visit in the state. The Modernist Museum features furniture owned by David Bowie created exclusively for him by the

Photo by Julie Garisto

famed art group known as Memphis. (modernismmuseum.org) If you are no longer social distancing and craving a more bustling experience, a Sunday morning market attracts locals and tourists every week from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (whattodoinmtdora. com/mount-dora-village-market).

With so many outdoor events that take place throughout the winter-spring season, Mount Dora has earned the tagline, “the festival city.”

Lakeside Inn is the ideal spot for a holiday meal or weekend getaway. This historic Inn, just off Lake Dora, serves both Thanksgiving and Christmas Day dinners by way of a large afternoon buffet. For details, visit lakeside-inn.com.

Brooksville may be north of Tampa Bay but it’s as southern as all get out. The Hernando town charms with turn-of-the century and early-to-mid-20th century architecture and stately Queen Anne homes. Mossy oak tree canopies hover over like grandmothers

with oversize shawls, and towering pines line curvy, hilly country roads like dignified evergreen sentinels.

Downtown shops include Young & Co., 12 W. Jefferson St., or Patricia’s, which will feature “living window displays” during the season.

Head to the Florida Cracker Kitchen, 966 E. Jefferson St., for comfort food and vegetarian-friendly fare (breakfast and lunch only, facebook.com/FloridaCrackerKitchen). While there, you can purchase a trucker hat, art, jewelry and other items from the restaurant’s trading company. If you’re looking for dinner options, The Bistro, formerly known as The Rising Sun Bistro (facebook.com/ risingsunbrooksville) prepares well-reviewed Southern fusion.

The city’s downtown district association presents the Christmas on Main Street event series, which offers wholesome holiday fun through Dec. 24.

Events include a Downton Ab-

Modernist Museum, Mount Dora Photo by Julie Garisto

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bey Christmas Tea Dinner (Dec. 2), Christmas tree lighting (Dec. 7), carriage rides (Dec. 13-20) and nightly carolers (Dec. 7-25). Learn more at floridasadventurecoast .com/main-street-brooksvilleflorida-destination-christmas.

Around an hour and a half northwest, Crystal River soothes the soul with Old Florida natural beauty and historic quaintness.

Take a trolley to downtown shops and visit a pristine natural treasure, Three Sisters Springs, a hangout for manatees during the winter season.

To take the shuttle, purchase your ticket ($15 for adults, $7.50 for kids 6-16) at Crystal River City Hall, 123 NW U.S. 19. The Three Sisters Springs office is on the south side of the building. Once you get your armband, you can get on and off the trolley every 30 minutes at Three Sisters Springs State Park, Hunter Springs Park, South Citrus and Heritage Village.

Trolley tickets include a full day admission to Sisters Springs.

Mount Dora

The Heritage House at 657 N. Citrus Ave. dazzles shoppers with one of the shiniest retail displays you’ll see this season. Its majestic main house, built in the late 1800s, has remained in the Tolle family, and is now owned by Laura Lou Tolle Fitzpatrick. The estate lures visitors with country charms aplenty: a 1940s truck painted with stars and stripes; a gazebo dedicated to matriarch Ada B. Tolle; palm trees, magnolias and oak canopies and a wrap- Shopping at Heritage House, Crystal around porch. The River Photo by Julie Garisto property now known as Heritage Village comprises cottages transformed into shops, an art gallery and other businesses.

If you can make it out to the Villages in north central Florida, Senior Adventures offers excursions to idyllic spots along the St. Johns River and other locales throughout Florida (senioradventures.net/id20.html).

The guides at Globe Trekker Expeditions explore the “forgotten history of Tampa” during their Tampa Historic Tour and venture north for a Weeki Wachee and Homosassa Springs adventure. Find out more at globe-trekkers.com/florida.

If you can’t get far from home, opt to visit Safety Harbor, Dunedin, Gulfport and Corey Avenue. All four offer that Main Street holiday feeling without having to drive too far. Wherever you decide to celebrate the season, embrace joy and stay safe.

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STEP BY STEP

Sally Anderson

AWESOME ABS

The core is a collection of muscles that stabilize, rotate and move the spine. One of the most popular and misunderstood muscle groups in that collection are the awesome abdominals.

Before you even begin your exercise routine, it can be motivating to be aware of just why strengthening the abs should be part of a well-rounded workout. Here are a few benefits of abdominal strength and endurance: • Stabilizes the torso to maintain good posture, which creates better balance • Reduces back pain • Helps in strengthening other core muscles and increases mobility and flexibility • Supports your spine and body during sitting, standing. bending over and during activities of daily living One of the biggest exercise

myths is that abdominal exercises will remove “ab flab.’’

While they will strengthen muscles underneath layers of fat, ab exercises will not help you lose the “muffin top.” Spot reducing just doesn’t work.

The only way to lose belly fat is through eating less and wholebody exercising.

Another myth is that you can specifically target the lower abdominals. The reality is that each of the abdominal muscles are part of the same muscle, the rectus abdominis. This means the ab muscles all work together; however you can emphasize different parts of the muscle group.

Form Matters

Form is important with basic crunches, and it’s where the most mistakes are made.

Tucking chin into neck by dropping chin to the chest and pulling on your neck leads to strain on the neck vertebrae

Photos by Dan Canoro

Your Move | Demonstrated by Aaron Scott and defeats the purpose of the exercise.

Repeating ab exercises too quickly increases your risk of back pain. Avoid straining the back by exercising at a pace where you can control your back movements.

Not keeping your abdominals contracted throughout the movement. Stay contracted to stabilize the spine and improve balance.

In addition to crunches, planks are very effective ab exercises.

Don’t over-arch or drop into your back. Not only will this cause an ineffective ab workout, but it can also lead to lower back pain.

Check with your doctor before starting a new exercise program.

Sally Anderson is happy to hear from readers but can’t respond to individual inquiries. Contact her at slafit@tampabay.rr.com

Basic Side Plank Targets obliques and almost every muscle group in

the body.

• Lying on your side with legs stretched out, place elbow on floor under shoulder.

Place opposite hand on hip or extend arm straight up.

• Place feet on top of each other.

• Avoid leaning forward.

• Contracting abdominals, lift hips off floor.

• You will be in a straight line from head to toe.

• Hold 15-30 seconds.

• Lower hips toward floor.

• Begin with one set of 8-12 repetitions on each side, gradually increasing to 2-3 sets of repetitions.

Tip: To modify, you may bend knees on floor.

Standing Side Bend Targets obliques, which are muscles that wrap around waist and torso.

• Standing tall with feet hip-width apart hold a weight, medicine ball or use your body weight.

• Extend arms overhead.

• Contract abdominals and bend from your waist to the right side, keeping arms straight; avoid locking elbows.

• Using your core, pull torso back to the center.

• Repeat 8-12 times then change sides and repeat pattern.

Tip: Avoid rushing, have a feeling of control.

Bicycle Crunches Targets core, hips, obliques.

• Begin by lying on a mat with lower back pressed to the ground; abdominals contracted.

• Place hands behind head, bringing knees in toward chest.

• Lift shoulder blades off floor; avoid pulling on neck.

• Straighten right leg out to about a 45 degree angle to the ground while turning upper body to the left, bringing right elbow toward left knee.

• Switch sides, repeating movement on other side.

• This will complete one repetition.

• Work toward two-three sets of twenty repetitions.

Tip: Make sure rotation movement is moving from rib cage and not just elbows doing the work. It is not necessary to touch elbows to knees as this could cause a strain in the neck.

Knee-to-Chest Stretch Stretches lower back muscles.

• Lying on back, bend knees with feet flat on floor.

• With both hands bring one knee toward chest, keeping other foot on floor.

• Thigh will be parallel to floor.

• Contract abdominals, holding stretch 15-30 seconds.

• Return to starting position and repeat with opposite leg.

• Repeat each stretch 2-3 times.

Tip: Avoid pulling on knee; place hands below or above knee.

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MY FAVORITE CAR Dr. Raymond Linville, 70, Clearwater

2006 Honda S2000 While working in southwest Virginia, I would see a sleek Honda S2000 every morning passing in the opposite direction. I was into muscle cars at the time, but the styling and performance of the S2K were unique. After considerable deliberation in 2006, I traded a beastly Mustang SVT Cobra for a red S2000, and have never regretted it. The S2K has an incredible power-to-weight ratio with a silky six-speed manual trans-

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mission, and although no longer produced, it has been cited frequently as a classic roadster.

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the original styling that continues to draw kudos each time I take it out for a drive in the bright and beautiful Florida weather. My wife and I have also driven it on road trips to the OBX, which weren’t the most comfortable due to the high-revving engine, spartan cabin, and firm (she calls it “bone crushing”) suspension, but returned with wonderful memories, especially of all of the nice people we met on the open highways of America.

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