Nobody warns you about the train whistle. One moment you are standing on an ordinary platform, and the next, something inside you shifts in a way you did not expect.
It is not quite memory and not quite longing, but something that sits perfectly between the two. Florida has a habit of hiding its best features behind the obvious ones.
The state most people think they know is loud, crowded, and relentlessly sunny. But there is a quieter side that rarely makes it onto anyone’s itinerary, and finding it requires slowing down in a way that feels almost radical these days…