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I finally get to the beach, and with very few ‘recalculatings’! Miss smug gps had it easy today! The beaches here are interesting. They are long island strips that go for miles but are only about 100 meters wide. They connect to the mainland via many bridges of course. The beach front is solid withContinue reading “Tampa (Monday)”

Can you smoke a cigar backwards? I think I just have! Should have got instructions with these things! It seemed like a good idea at the time! I caught a bus to the airport and picked up my little hire car. You can get great walk-in deals with hire cars, less than half of whatContinue reading “Tampa (Sunday)”

I catch the bus at 8.30 pm on Wednesday and after a couple if interchanges through the night, arrive in Tampa at around 12.30pm. The overnight bus from New Orleans was uneventful. No interesting characters to talk about. A young fella plied with grog didn’t make the trip as he planned. He gave his conditionContinue reading “New Orleans to Tampa (Thursday)”

ALL WHO WANDER ARE NOT LOST Anon The flavour of Ybor. Tampa has history and I found that out at the Tampa Harbour History Centre. It’s called the History Centre rather than museum I suspect because it is a collection of displays that tell the story rather than being a collection of artifacts. Some ofContinue reading “Ybor (Saturday)”

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 soContinue reading “Tampa (Friday)”

Not much to report today, just packing up and catching the all-night bus to Tampa in Florida. I’m leaving New Orleans before I am ready but I must move on. I will come back here one day. While there is little news to tell I would like to write about a story that was inContinue reading “New Orleans (Wednesday)”

Another day looking around town. I catch the trolly up to another cemetery for a great example of how to bury people above ground. If buried underground here the coffins just pop out of the ground when it floods. I catch the ferry to go across to the other side of the Mississippi River toContinue reading “New Orleans (Tuesday 13 September)”

Statue of Andrew Jackson who defeated the English at the Battle of New Orleans and later became President of USA. A lazy start today, I go down to the ferry terminal to meet up with Narelle. Narelle is a good friend from Cairns who is here visiting friends in New Orleans for the second time.Continue reading “New Orleans (Monday)”

More walking of the streets of the French Quarter. I catch a tour in the afternoon. The tour includes two hours of bussing around some interesting parts of town. The driver provides a rapid fire description of everything that flashes past our windows. He takes us into the areas worse effected by Hurricane Katrina. SixContinue reading “New Orleans (Sunday)”

New Orleans is known lovingly as NOLA to the locals. This stands for ‘New Orleans Louisiana America’. I have only just arrive and already it is clear this is easily the most interesting city I have visited in USA. There is history here and it’s not just written in the amazing buildings but the peopleContinue reading “New Orleans (Saturday)”