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In April 2009, Trailblazers will celebrate 20 years in Brevard County as an adventurous club for active singles.  Because we are a large group, we can get discounts on our trips, which make them reasonable in costs. This is a list of some of the many activities we enjoy throughout the year. 

Our annual trip to the Florida Keys during the Labor Day weekend is one of our biggest and most popular.  We arrive in Marathon on Thursday and stay until Tuesday morning.  One hundred Trailblazers take over the entire complex of Coco Plum. The cost for fives nights is $180 for the fold out couch, $230 per person for guest room and $560 for the master bedroom with its own bath.  We play tennis, kayak, snorkel, scuba dive, swim in the pool or relax in the hot tub. There are a couple of nights we go out to dinner. Friday night is a potluck dinner and a planned meal on Sunday night. All this takes place on the outside patio. Also, there's dancing into the wee hours every night. One morning is scheduled for going to Key West and biking around the island. Then we ride to Dante's restaurant and have lunch and swim in their pool.  Another morning we head out for a walk on the 7-mile bridge.  Saturday afternoon we head for Key West and a walk on Duval Street then to Mallory Square to watch the performers. Time spent in the Keys is full of sun and fun. 

 
Other weekend trips include Savannah, Georgia in December and Sunfest in West Palm Beach in May.  This year there were many boats that took a trip to Blue Springs. A trip planned this October is to Lake Louisa to stay in cabins for two nights.  They will be canoeing, kayaking, biking and hiking. The cost for this trip is $45 for the two nights and dinner will be served one night.  A cruise is coming up in February 2009 for ten nights to Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and the Dominica Republic. The cost ranges from $990 to $1140 inside cabin or ocean view. We go camping at State Parks several times during the cooler months where we bike ride, kayak and canoe.

These are just a few of the many trips that happen throughout the year.  A member can come up with something they want to do, then put it on the calendar and have other Trailblazers join them. Examples of these activities are:  bowling the first Sunday of the month; golfing during the summer months, we play nine holes playing best ball, every other Friday starting at 5:30 p.m. then out for dinner; Manatees baseball games; volleyball and have had our own softball team. There are several kayaking trips planned in the year and nightclubs where we meet each week to dance and party. We have had events that include going to the King Center for a show and day trips to Wet and Wild as well as Disney, Universal and MGM. 
 
The club also hosts an Easter picnic, Fourth of July party, Christmas party and New Years party. 

Trailblazers, is a group where singles from around the United States meet to enjoy the life that Florida has to offer.   

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 Talking with Jeff, he's on the 'Who's going to the Keys committee” the other day he told me we want 100+ folks to sign up for the Keys trip so we can get, as always, the whole complex to ourselves.  The trip is not until Labor Day so it gives you that much time, if possible, to ask for Thursday and Tuesday off from work.  Why those days you ask, well the answer is. . . our Labor Day Keys trip basically begins on Thursday the 3rd of September and because it's the day before the Labor Day weekend the traffic is light traveling down and if you also get Tuesday off from work you will have a smooth ride back home seeing that the rest of the world had to leave on Monday. . . hence no traffic on Tuesday heading home.  I have been going to the Keys with the Trailblazers for lots of years and I find it to be the trip of trips.  Now lets talk dollars.  Pull out couch in living room $180. . . bedroom with two folks $230 each. . . master bedroom with own bath I believe is $560.  That’s five sunshine full days and five wonderful nights under the stars with a lot of activity in between.  It takes about 7 1/2 hours to drive from Melbourne to Marathon and we stay  at the same complex every year. . . Coco Plum.  It 's right on the beach. Cocoa Plum has a large pool, a separate many person hot tub, patio area, tennis court, volleyball and if you have been there before you know how beautiful the condos are. . . not that you are going to spend that much time in them.  Every night there is some kind of activity at the complex.  After arriving and after taking your bags to your condo you will want  to get your swimsuit on and hit the pool.  Such a great feeling after spending those hours in the automobile.  Through out the day it's also saying hi to the other folks arriving.  You might want to make a run to Publix or Winn Dixie and stock up on what you'll be drinking, eating and snacking on.  Thursday night is usually everyone in the pool and / or the hot tube or dancing to the music on the patio.  Friday morning it’s waking up saying to yourselves "Wow I'm in the Keys for the next many days."  Friday day is a do whatever day. Marathon has a K-Mart, Publix and Winn Dixie as well as some neat restaurants for breakfast, lunch or dinner.  My favorite breakfast place is called the 'Stuffed Pig'.  Little hole in the wall place couple miles before the 7 mile bridge . . ., which I might add the seven mile bridge is only 6. 8 miles, but who's counting.  Friday night is potluck night.  Everybody brings a dish to share at the patio.  Saturday morning Bob has his annual bike ride that takes us around the island of Key West.  We leave early from Cocoa Plum and meet up in Key West at the Wendy's / Publix plaza parking lot and for the next few hours we have a blast touring the island.  Thanks Bob that's always a lot of fun.  After the bike ride we go to Dante's restaurant for lunch and a swim in their pool.  So folks do not forget to bring your bikes or rent one for the day.  Saturday is also the time folks go to Key West to shop, hang in bars, walk the city or maybe take the conch train which gives you a great tour of old Key West.  There are lots of touristy things to do.  One thing I've learned when walking Duvall street, which is Key West's main drag downtown, most of the time the sun is blaring down so while walking and you get hot then step inside one of the many shops on Duvall street to cool off.  All the stores are air-conditioned and their doors are always opened so step inside and browse till you cool off.  In the evening lots of folks meet at Mallory Square to watch the sunset and the performers who line the square.  Okie usually does a morning or afternoon scuba dive and / or snorkel trip.  Sunday day is pool, sunning, boating, tennis, biking riding or just kicking back.  Sunday night is when the Hawaiian shirts and skirts come out to play.  It's a planned dinner that the committee puts together and all you have to bring is your appetite.  Afterwards it's more dancing, swimming and playing in the spa.  Monday is slow paced with the idea that most folks are kinda bushed after all we've been doing.  Of course those that brought their boats and jet skies are getting in the last full day of water fun.  Usually that evening a bunch of us get together and choose a restaurant to eat at and talk about what we've been up to.  Tuesday is the time for packing the automobile, saying bye to all and the Keys, till next year, and heading our automobiles to the north .  So folks if you are looking for a great vacation with a cheap price then you should sign up for the annual Labor Day Trailblazers Keys trip.  You'll have a blast.
Dorsey

     What a great day for a bike ride! We had 11 people; 10 Trailblazers and a man in the parking lot who asked  if he could join our group and ride with us. The weather was perfect. It was a leisurely ride and everyone rode at their own pace with 2-3 people in a group at a time, chatting and peddling together.

     When we got to the nature preserve just south of rte 510 we rested , enjoyed some snacks and sandwiches and took some pictures, before heading off again. Instead of going back the same way, we decided to ride on the scenic trails through the woods, which brought us across A1A to the ocean. It was so peaceful and pretty there overlooking the waves crashing in.

     Upon returning to the starting point, some of us walked along the boardwalk to the Pelican Island veiwing platform. Pelican Island is the FIRST wildlife refuge/nature preserve established  in the USA. On the boardwalk, every other slat of wood is engraved with the name of a Nature Preserve or wildlife refuge  somewhere in the US. in order by year opened, starting with the most current date.

     At the end of the walk, on the top of the platform, the last entry is Pelican Island Wildlife refuge, established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903. The town of Sebastian celebrates the refuge with an annual Pelican Island Wildlife Festival, which just happend on March 14th.