Guided tours aren’t just for tourists, and locals would do well to join Eric Turner and his wife Katie on one of their monthly bike excursions exploring various Tampa neighborhoods. Knowledge gets doled out the way Oprah drops goodies on her studio audience, but your ass will get a minor workout, too, since you’ll be joined by handfuls of fellow bicyclists looking to either get learned on their amazing hometown or simply find out more about this city they wish they could call home. historybiketampa.com
This article appears in Sep 18-24, 2014.