welcome to Jax @intrepidfrog! I am a native jacksovillian and hope you enjoy your time here 🙂 I have always wanted to visit Alaska; in fact my mother is taking a cruise there this summer. what campus will you be joining in Jacksonville? If you need like nature trails UNF has beautiful scenery and it's free to park there on the weekends. There is also Ft. Caroline which has two different "locations" you can walk. I suggest a cruiser if you want to bike on the beach. If you love live theater and dance, keep and eye out for FSCJ's performances, sometimes they are free to the general public and they are pretty great in my opinion. Their choir's most recent performance was Schubert's Mass in G, which was a free concert.