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Article: Ride offers freedom, fun: Golf cart travel is a way of life for some locals.
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- The Destin Log (Destin, FL)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2006
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Byline: Keri Holt
Dec. 16--Leon Scott, 75, can be found nearly every day fishing in the Choctawhatchee Bay next to Bill Ming's Bait Shop on Calhoun Avenue. This favorite spot of his is less than one mile from his house on Sibert Avenue, a distance close enough for him to hop on his golf cart and be there within minutes.
"I have to come check on my friends Bill and Dewey (Destin) down here," Scott said. "I can throw all my fishing stuff in the back of my golf cart and go."
As a man with a great deal of physical disabilities, Scott's golf cart has a been an ideal vehicle -- easy to get in and out of, plenty of comfort room, and more versatile than his old electric ...