From the map it looks easy. I want to check out the local beaches but I’m in west Tampa and the beaches are across the water at Clearwater. There are buses but not direct to where I want to go. I take on the bus system and after five interchanges, I give up! It’s so complicated and the further I ventured the more I had to remember to unwind this process to get home. I get home defeated an realise the only way to seriously get around here is by hire car! Watch out Tampa, I am hitting the roads. I will hire a car for a few days from Sunday. This will be my first driving attempt in the US and I’m afraid – fir my self and the locals!
Tampa is a series of bays and peninsulars. It is essentially a port city. But typical of America, they don’t build roads around things. There is plenty of water in the way but they just build their roads over the top! Why go around? So there are long bridges (or skyways) connecting the various peninsulars to the open coast. They go for miles.
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