Travel Blogs from Tampa, United States
leaving on a jet plane...
So, I have been counting down the weeks(OK, maybe days) until my departure for about six months now. I was so busy finishing up the semester (with a 4.0, thank you very much) that I did almost nothing to prepare myself for leaving the country for almost ...
There's No Place Like Home
... , he put it into the garbage. He was not happy about this at all. We made it to the gate for our flight to Tampa. We had to wait for an hour or more. We watched the news and read the newspaper to catch up on what had been going on ...
Day 1, Thursday January 12, Board Jewel of the Sea
... although the staff demonstrated how to properly don them. We dropped our lines promptly at 4:30 and made our way South towards Tampa Bay. The cruise terminal sits on a narrow inlet into the heart of Tampa. There is a museum ship and a ...
16 hour trip
The trip from Baņos to Montaņita. We were told 7.5 hours. Took 16 due to construction and horrible roads. We averaged 20 ...
Grace and Tee-Shirts
Word o' the day: Gracia Pronounced: Grah- see-ah, gracia In English: Grace So, when you say gracias or thank you in Spanish, you are saying graces. I just discovered this. Oh, the beauty of learning language. Here I sit, surrounded by ...
Busch Gardens
Spent the day at Busch Gardens today. Not too many people there so we were able to get on the rides at least twice! Too awesome. My favorites were the Kumba and Montu. Montu is like the longer version of the Batman ride in Great ...
It's WARM!!
... on the flight who had severe peanut allergy and asked eveyone nearby not to consume peanut products on the flight!! Tampa airport was a little challenging but finally found an 'information' kiosk and after a 45min wait was on the 'super shuttle' to ...
The Beginning of a Great Adventure!
We are beginning our adventure today! We leave Tampa International Airport @ 6:40 PM. We will land in London, England @ 8:05 A.M. and then head to Amsterdam, Netherlands around 11:30 A.M. After arriving, we will take a train into ...
Wrapping it up...
... considered, after 17 flights, this is the best one for this to have happened on, though. Dart and I had a grumpy drink at the Tampa airport waiting for the next flight from Atlanta, which we were told held all four of our bags. We were told this by an ...
Two days to play in Florida
... SR-60 but SR-60 went right. A quick turn around and we were back on the right road but the freeways around Tampa Airport are a maze. It took me three tries to understand how the interchanges worked. The second time was a quick trip to ...
xmas lights
Hi from Tampa. If you didn't know, I am a pretty christmasy kind of guy. So when i went out to look at Christmas lights recently, I was a little disappointed. So many dark and dismal areas. Even when you account for all the valid ...
Travel day
Jeanne and I are on our way to Albuquerque to visit our friends Steve and Judy. We are traveling on Southwest from Tampa, with a stop in Kansas City. We said goodbye to the dogs, locked up and shared a bagel with cheese. Anthea is giving us a ...
wir haben unserem Ruf alle Ehre gemacht ;)
Das waren aufjedenfall ein paar sehr lustige Tage ;-) Wir haben einige Coronas und andere alkoholische Getränke vernichtet, am Strand gechillt und gebräunt, uns mal wieder einige Male verfahren, Smoke on the Water auf der Gitarre gelernt (oder auch ...
Places to go, do and eat in Tampa Bay
Places to go, do and eat on Tampa Bay Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?gl=us&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=210915370686174522955.00049f6809d8679bc239c&ll=27.774127,-82.629097&spn=0.010366,0.01929&z=16 ...
Departure Day
Delta Song certainly has its advantages. I'm sitting on the plane between Tampa and New York playing trivia with the others on board. How funny! Anyway, Dad tried to wake me up at 6:15, this morning, yeah right. He obviously doesn't ...
Trip home
... over. It was a very short ride. The Edinburgh airport is quite a nice airport. Unlike the airports in the states, there are no loudspeaker announcements and no loud noises to make the airport crazy. We caught our flight out and the ...
Busch Gardens
Heute sind wir um halb 8 aufgestanden. Nach dem Morgenessen fuhren wir los. Es hat erst gerade aufgemacht. Als erstes gingen wir auf eine Achterbahn sie hiess Cheeta Hunt. Wir gingen alle zusammen. Die Bahn ging sehr schnell, Papa war es nicht so wohl. ...
Kung Fu Panda at the Channelside IMAX
All six of us drove up to Tampa in the van. We saw Kung Fu Panda at the Channelside IMAX, had some great Thai food at Thai Thani in the Channelside Plaza, then hopped over to Macdill AFB for some quick ...

