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Cindy Bates Muir

I live in Port Aransas, Texas and love all things Parrot Head and Trop Rock. I enjoy interviewing Trop Rock artists, attending events and always look forward to seeing Trop Rock friends from around the nation! Author of the Trop Rock lyric infused cozy mystery book "Schooled for Murder." Check out my website at www.CindyMuir.com

If you’ve been to a Jimmy Buffett show, particularly a parking lot party before showtime, chances are that you’ve seen a bronzed, blond fellow applying “number tattoos” to various concert-goers. Maybe you’ve heard him answer to “Hey, Hollywood!” This individual would be the one and only Michael Holly. If this were a normal time in …

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New Orleans is a uniquely vibrant city that offers a wide range of attractions in or near the French Quarter. For Trop Rock music fans and Parrot Heads who descend upon New Orleans every January for Pardi Gras, here are a few of the experiences we highly recommend: Oscar of New Orleans Ladies, one of …

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The Parrot Heads of Port Aransas (PHOPA) had to halt their annual fund raiser, “Wings Over Port A” in the fall of 2017 due to that dastardly hurricane named Harvey. The members were scattered in other locales other than Port Aransas, venues and hotels were closed and the small town was still littered with debris …

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  While in southwest Florida, I asked my husband to check on what there was to see while we were driving through Cape Coral, Florida. The number one place recommended was the Wicked Dolphin Rum Distillery and we were only minutes away, so of course, we had to visit.     Wicked Dolphin Rum Tasting …

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Your Ambergris Cay, Belize Travel Guide Formerly known as “British Honduras,” Belize is an independent Commonwealth of just under 400,000 people. Sharing a small northern border with Mexico and Guatemala to its west and south, Belize has a proud Mayan heritage dating back as far as 2500 BC. Although they weren’t the first there, the …

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Guest post by Travel By Georgia. For more information on this destination or anywhere else in the world, call or email Georgia at (404) 642-4749 or [email protected].  “If you are serious about chucking it all and moving to a beach in Mexico, it helps to be crazy.” That line, is from the first chapter of …

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As a lover of all things tropical, you probably find that Iowa doesn’t appear on your list of places to visit very often if at all! Iowa – you say? Why would a beach loving, sun kissed, Trop Rock connoisseur like me ever be crazy enough to make a trip to the tall corn state? …

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