Tampa Travel Blogs - Page 4

What a great day at the zoo.  Mike and me got there around 1:00pm. The weather was perfect!! We visited the Asian Gardens first. With it's Malayan Tapir, Clouded Leopard, Bearded Pigs, Sloth, and White Tiger. Then it was off to Lorikeet Landing. For a dollar you buy a small cup of nectar and t…

i have been to europe and most of the states in the usa

SOME OF FORGOTTEN FLORIDA

32 states in the US and 8 in Canada. Travelled Canada and the USA from coast to coast within five months. Travelled mostly by train, sometimes by coach. In total 33.000 km (20.000 miles). Started and ended in Toronto. Some other highlights: Montreal, Quebec, New York, Philadelpia, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, El Paso, LA, San Fran, Yosemite, Death Valley, Vegas, Vancouver, Jasper. Experienced temperatures varying from minus 25 degrees Celsius to +30 degrees Celsius. Only shot 6000 pictures.

Up at 7:00am, 40 minutes after my wake-up call, I went downstairs for breakfast and discovered a wonderful buffet spread.  A little round Vietnamese cook prepared my special order of a butter-free egg white frittata.  With a heavy accent, she apologized repeatedly for the appearance of wh…

The rivers are so clear you can see how white the sand is...

My first 'big trip': 2 months through 10 states in the US of A. It was a great adventure, largely because of the fact that we didn't know what we were doing. This was before I had discovered the functionality of a Lonely Planet guidebook, so our trip was mainly planned using fly/drive itineraries. We managed though, and saw a lot of great stuff. For now it is just a map and a couple of recollections - I need to scan some photos

Vandaag een dagje in Tampa. Dat vinden we allemaal niet zo heel veel voorstellen.Misschien ook omdat we nu niet precies wisten waar we naar toe wilden en omdat we ook geen zin hadden om te winkelen. Dus veel bij het zwembad gelegen, nadat we heel even richting Tampa Bay zijn gegaan. Lian ligt nu a…

We left the house at 10:00am this morning and headed down SR60 East.  We stopped at Ben's Family Restaurant for a late breakfast.

traveling along the years

The waiting that comes when the preparations are through is always the hardest part. My backpack is on the couch next me. It sits there, unassumingly filled, hopefully with everything I will need to survive for the next few weeks. As with all big undertakings in my life, there is a bit of doubt in …

     The day has finally come....the day to go home and get back to the real world.  What an awesome weekend it has been. I will remember this for a long time to come.  My brother-n-law and I are sitting at at Cleveland-Hopkins airport waiting for our flight. We a…

Have you ever seriously considered the RV lifestyle.  MANBAG of WOSB-TB has a few questions for you before he takes you to the Florida RV Super Show at the Fairgrounds.   What type of recreational vehicle do you want?  Class a Motor Home-12 to 40 feet, constructed on a bare speci…

While planning this trip, I believed that I prepared myself mentally for everything that I set out to do: eating a restricted diet, spending many hours in the car, and living out of my suitcases for a few months, but I seriously failed to plan for two things:  moving, and a perfectly timed hur…

I don't know why I'm writing this. I don't want other people to go to Anna Maria island. Only me. But hey, work is quiet and i love to write. I went on a family holiday to Anna Maria in 2006 for three fabulous weeks. We stayed in the Beach House which is on one of the quietest parts of a long beach…