Doubletree Hotel Tampa Westshore Airport

... Bed Bath & Beyond. Must travel with a neck pillow on long flights!
Back at Gram's, Conrad is working with Bruce doing fix-it stuff. Owning your own hostel allows you to learn how to fix stuff, whether you wanted to know it or not! I took pictures so that everyone could get an idea of what Gram's ...

... His place is better than the Pirate Haus, in that he owns the property, so he can do all the cool things he's done there. Gram's is 80% like the place I dream of owning. We pretty much packed yesterday, and Fran arrived back yesterday to run the Inn while we're gone so it's like we've got the final green light on the 'Christmas Tree' at a drag race....April is the organized one, my god, we've got a spreadsheet of where we'll be. I do appreciate that myself ...

After a long day of work for both of us, we finally hit the road at 0630 pm. The dogs were less than happy with us, as evidenced by the pictures. They knew once all of the luggage was in the living room that something was up. Chloe was actually trembling! But, Marv will take good care of them, as well as good care of my ...

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Welcome to our travel blog where we will be writing about our fun travels! Each of you will write one entry that is at least 2 paragraphs long (4-5 sentences each). You will need to include how many miles we will travel in all, how much your airline tickets cost ...

... Mayle said about Provence, for me the culture clash got to be a bit aggravating after a while. After several times of not being able to have lunch at a restaurant because they all closed up at 1:30, or not being able to see a site you went to because they're closed for lunch, the slow pace of Provence begins to irritate. The people were very nice and I could see enjoying it more if you were to actually move there like Mayle did, but for a vacation where ...

... but I’ll probably break down and eat in lieu of spending money on breakfast when I arrive in Dublin.

While I’m blobbering about flight quality because I have no real juicy stories yet, I was also quite impressed with my Jet Blue flight from TPA to JFK this morning. As I typically fly Delta or American and sometimes Southwest – only if it’s a really good deal, I’ve never had the Jet Blue experience before today. I ...

It's 3:00 and we have settled at the business center of the Tampa airport. I was finally able to connect to the internet (Vista was giving me grief, as usual!). Our flight leaves at 5:00. So far so good! At least I'm a little more relaxed now that we're at the airport, our luggage passed the weight test and all appears to be well with the weather.

Stay tuned. . . .

Well, we pulled away from the gate at 5:00 or ...

... of us have had a balcony room before! We were on the ship and in our room in less than an hour from when we arrived at the port. The first thing we did was try to switch our dinner. We really wanted anytime dining or a table for two. We headed to Truffles to make a request and got behind some lady who felt she deserved to have whatever seating she wanted. (From what I gathered, she wanted early ...

... Pollenca we have our after dinner walk. We had an apperitif at the Harbor Tiki Bar , we watched Pelicans & Salty Sam the sea dog & his sidekick Captain Dave curcumnavigating the harbor in a little boat, they were both v/drunk but a sifht to see. We had a v/nic dinner at Barnacle Bills and Jace our waiter gave us BB glasses to take home for free.

... for the dining room. After dinner the Palladium Lounge featured an "Adult Celebrity Guest and Talent Show". I realize that I have done more than my share of complaining so far, so will say no more about the "show". There was another show, however, clearly put on just for us. As we cruised north the full-moon took up station at about thirty degrees above the horizon, just off the ...