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Name: The Citrus Traveler
Address: Fleming Island, FL, US
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Native Floridian turned your Ultimate Travel Planner!

Specializing in ALL Florida destinations, and Nostalgic Florida Getaways! 🚗
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11/02/2026

Happy Coastal Postcard Monday! 🍊☀️ As promised, we are steering our vintage station wagon right back into the gorgeous, nostalgic hidden gem of Jensen Beach, Florida! 🚙💨 This amazing small town is so incredibly rich in Old Florida history that one single day just wasn't enough to cover it all. 🗺️✨

Last week, we fell in love with the town's famous pineapple-covered streets. Today, we are unlocking even more historic secrets, highlighting the absolute best local spots to grab a bite to eat, and revealing the ultimate vintage activities you can still experience here. 🎨🏡
Unfold your road maps, roll down the windows, and let's get ready to explore historic Jensen Beach together! 📻🎒

💬 Let's kick off the morning: If you could spend all day strolling through a quiet, sun-drenched historic village, would you rather hunt for hidden vintage antique shops or relax on a breezy waterfront dock? 🏝️👇 Drop your vibe in the comments!

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10/31/2026

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10/30/2026

Hey Citrus Travelers! Happy Flori-Day Friday! 🌴✨ It is officially the day before Halloween, and you know what that means—time to see how we do spooky season in the Sunshine State! ☀️🧙‍♀️ 🎃

Who says you need freezing weather to get into the holiday spirit? Around here, we swap crunchy leaves for palm trees and standard jack-o'-lanterns for tropical carvings! 🍍🏝️

From pink lawn flamingos wearing tiny witch hats to orange string lights wrapped around the trunks of our front-yard palms, Florida style is truly one of a kind. 🎉👻 🌴

👇 Drop a comment below: Are your lawn flamingos dressed up for tomorrow night, or do you have a carved pineapple on your porch? Show us your tropical Halloween setups! 📸👇

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10/30/2026

Tell You More Thursdays! 💋

To wrap up our unforgettable spooky series, we have to talk about the incredible history of our overnight oasis, the Marion Motor Lodge! 🏨🌴 This beloved St. Augustine waterfront landmark has a legacy stretching back over 130 years! 🌊✨

Long before it became the classic, mid-century "park outside your door" motor court we stayed at last night, it originally opened in the late 1890s as the grand, Victorian-style Hotel Marion! 👑🏰 Tragically, the original wooden hotel was completely destroyed during St. Augustine's great fire of 1914. 🧱🔥

Instead of abandoning the property, the owners eventually rebuilt it to perfectly capture the booming automobile tourism of the mid-1900s! 🚗💨 Reimagined as a two-story motor court with stunning coquina stone walls and majestic courtyard palms, it became a mandatory stop for highway travelers. The best part? It is still fully operational today, proudly celebrating over 75 years as a motor lodge while keeping its historic charm alive! 🌴🛋️🔑

Thank you for exploring the shadows of Old Florida with me this week! 🍊✨ Where should our vintage Chevy take us for next week's Nostalgic Wednesday?

Drop your destination suggestions below! 🗺️👇TellYouMoreThursday

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10/29/2026

Tell Me More Thursdays 💋

To keep our Tell You More Thursday rolling, let’s talk about where you can find the ghost of the old Mystery House today, Citrus Travelers! 🕵️‍♂️✨

Sadly, like many of Florida's classic roadside oddities, the Mystery House closed its doors permanently in the late 1960s as major theme parks shifted tourism away from old Route A1A. 🎟️💔 The tilted wooden structure was eventually demolished, but its location remains iconic. It sat directly across the street from the world-famous St. Augustine Alligator Farm on Anastasia Boulevard! 🐊🛣️

Next time you drive past the Alligator Farm to see the ancient reptiles, look across the blacktop and imagine the thousands of mid-century families who used to pull over right there to stand sideways and buy View-Master reels! 🦕📸

It is a beautiful reminder of the whimsy and creativity that built Florida’s early roadside history! 🧡🌴

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10/29/2026

Tell You More Thursdays! 💋
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Because the building blocked out your view of the flat horizon, your brain instantly fell into a brilliant optical trap! 🧠🌪️ Your eyes told you the floor was flat, but your inner ear could feel the tilt. Your body naturally tried to stand straight against gravity—making you look and feel like you were leaning at an impossible 45-degree angle! 🧍‍♂️📐

Even the crazy "uphill" rolling bottles were part of the trick! 🍼📈 The tables were actually slanted downward, but Mosher angled them slightly less than the steep tilt of the floor, creating the perfect illusion that objects were defying gravity! 💧📉

This powerful concept is the exact same science used in famous spots like Oregon's Vortex! It proves how easily our senses can get tricked when you take away the horizon line! 👁️✨

Have you ever been inside a modern "crooked house" attraction? Tell me how it felt! 👇

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10/29/2026

Tell Me You More Thursdays! 💋

Alright Citrus Travelers it is time to reveal! 🧠💥 That "spooky magnetic vortex" inside Al Mosher's Mystery House wasn't a real glitch in the Earth's gravity at all! It was actually a masterclass in forced perspective and architectural distortion! 📐🏡

Al Mosher was a brilliant designer who deliberately constructed the entire four-room house on a severe, uniform 25-degree tilt. 🏗️🚧 He cleverly hid the crooked foundation using the surrounding trees and coastal sand dunes along Route A1A, so it looked perfectly normal from the outside! 🌳🛤️

When you stepped through the front door, the interior walls, floors, and doorframes were all perfectly parallel to each other, but completely tilted relative to the actual horizon outside! 🚪👁️ This sneaky setup completely scrambled how your eyes and brain communicated! 💥🤯

(The mind-bending secret continues in Part 2 below! 👇)

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10/29/2026

Good Morning, Citrus Travelers! 🍊 Welcome to Tell You More Thursday! 💋 We have officially stepped out of our 1950s time machine and back into the modern day. ⏳✨ Yesterday, our minds were completely blown by the gravity-defying antics at Al Mosher's famous St. Augustine Mystery House. 🌀🚗

Today, we are pulling back the curtain on the magic! 🎪🎩 How did a simple wooden house right along State Road A1A make grown adults lean at a sharp 45-degree angle without falling over? Why did heavy glass bottles look like they were rolling uphill across flat tables? 📈🤯

Grab your morning orange juice and settle in! 🍹 Over the next few posts, we are breaking down the incredible architectural science behind Florida's favorite vintage anomaly—and revealing what actually stands on that historic ground today! 🗺️🔍

Did you guess the secret behind the gravity vortex? Drop your theories below!

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10/29/2026

🍊 Nostalgic Florida Wednesdays! 🍊
Spooky Edition 👻

Woo, Citrus Travelers! 🍊 It has been a spooky, mysterious day! 👻 Our brains are spinning from standing sideways at Al Mosher's Mystery House, so it is time to wrap up our journey the true '50s way. Now let's pull up to the motor court! 🚗💨✨

Tonight, we are turning the keys off and parking right outside our room at the famous Marion Motor Court! 🏨🌴 Nestled right on the beautiful St. Augustine bayfront, this Spanish-style roadside haven is absolutely stunning under the evening neon. With its charming coquina stone walls, white window shutters, and towering courtyard palms swaying in the Atlantic breeze, it is the ultimate mid-century paradise to escape the day's eerie gravity tricks! 🌊🛋️✨

What an unforgettable finale to our spooky series! 🗺️🦖 Which did you like:

👻 Spook Hill

🎃 Cassadaga

🏠 Mystery House

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10/28/2026

🍊 Nostalgic Florida Wednesdays! 🍊
Spooky Edition 👻

The sun is starting to dip over Anastasia Island, Citrus Travelers! 🌅🍊 We are leaning against the fender of our Chevy, pocketing our souvenir Mystery House brochures to study the real genius behind this roadside anomaly: a brilliant showman named Al Mosher! 🎪🎩

Mosher is a master builder who meticulously constructed this four-room house right on top of the old sand dunes along State Road A1A! 🗺️📐 It is a structural marvel completely hidden in plain sight. Because it looks like a normal house sitting on a hillside from the road, your brain completely miscalculates the horizon the second you step through the front door! 🤯💥

The rumors rolling through the tourism courts are guyabsolutely wild. Some travelers are so shaken by the dizziness that they genuinely suspect an "atomic reaction" or a localized magnetic vortex has taken place in the Florida soil! ☢️🌪️ Mosher just smiles and collects the tickets, keeping his construction secrets strictly under wraps while families happily line up to buy View-Master reels and postcards to mail back home! 🎟️✨

Would you pull your car over to check out a house of gravity tricks? 🎟️🦖 Let's see those comments! 👇

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Photo Below: Owner of The St Augustine Alligator Farm, with Marion Wilikins, and
Al Mosher. 1950 Photo Credit St Augustine Archives.

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