Clearwater Travel Guide

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Florida Will Turn You Into a Racecar Driver or Pirate, If You Let It

March 19, 2010 at 4:45 PM | by | Comments (3)

We stumbled across a very eye-catching tourism advertising campaign today on our way back from this glorious view of the Brooklyn Bridge, and thought we'd share. It's underground in the Union Square subway station, and it's all over. The ads, a before/after study in what can happen to you when you leave the rough city life for the beaches of St. Petersburg and Clearwater, depict rough-and-tumble characters turning into attractive, exotic people once they've flown the 2.5 hours south to Florida.

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UFO Travel: Clearwater is Scientology-tastic

September 27, 2007 at 10:33 AM | by | Comments (0)

If you are looking for a tourist town that lives the UFO lifestyle you would be hard pressed to find a town more worthy than Clearwater Florida. Clearwater is to Scientologists what Salt Lake City is to Mormons.

Back in the 1970s Scientology guru L. Ron Hubbard secretly bought a hotel in downtown Clearwater with visions of making it the spiritual home for the Church of Scientology. Hubbard chose Clearwater because it was close to the Tampa airport, was warm year round, and he liked the name "clear". Today, more than 12,000 Scientologists live and work in and around Clearwater, sit on local government boards and have become business leaders in the community. Hollywood Scientologists have been known to pilgrimage here to take part in the highest levels of spiritual training.

Scientology's Clearwater stronghold is the currently under construction seven-story Flag Building (pictured above), which covers a full city block. Also known as the "Super Power Building," it will be the largest Scientology structure in the world when completed late in 2008 and is expected to draw thousands more visiting believers to Clearwater.

To add to the Clearwater UFO legend, back in 2005 a resident of "the clear" reported one of our favorite UFO sightings ever, mostly because of the best caveat ever.

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