October is when Bonita Springs starts to stretch and wake up. Seasonal neighbors are booking flights, kitchens are rolling out winter menus and the roads are still blissfully clear. Here is how September closed, where to eat right now and what is coming to Riverside Park this season.
Sunset View on the Gulf of Mexico at Bonita Beach
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My daughter pulled into the driveway and I thought she was getting one of the kids out of the car. She was unloading the most wounded members of her household and it was her plants. Cue Chopin’s Funeral March. Not one. Not two. Not three. …
A little over a year ago, I returned home to Bonita Springs after a tune-up at the transplant clinic in Tampa. Part of my recovery involved long walks through Tampa neighborhoods - simple, healing movement. I found myself drawn to the Little Free Libraries scattered around the city. I walked …