Well, Jessie and I are on vacation.

What better place to keep a log then my blog?

We’re free styling it and made no reservations other than our cruise.

Our only real requirements were that a hotel had to have wireless internet.

We left Panama City Friday afternoon and arrived in Tampa about 6:30 pm and found a room at a HoJo – Howard Johnsons.  No frills but clean and had internet.

We were hoping to meet up with a colleague Robert Masse and his wife, but wouldn’t you know they were going out of town this weekend as well.

No worries, we’ll be back Tampa for a weekend soon and catch up then.

Tampa is a great city – we walked around Ybor, visited the outdoor Flea market on Saturday and had a great afternoon.

One thing we noticed about Ybor was all the Cigar stores – we counted 10 and hadn’t walked all through the area.

We can’t wait until spring to come back to Tampa and hopefully see a pre-season Yankee game at their spring training park.

We headed to Miami Saturday afternoon, since the Masse’s were busy.

We found a lousy hotel near the airport which we circled twice accidentally and finally figured out how to pull in to the parking lot.

We had dinner at the Macaroni Grill which was terrible – I promised Jessie never to bring up that restaurant again

We left the Homestead suites (ugh) and checked in to La Quinta, much better and more accomodating.

This morning (Sunday) we  went to the Coral Castle so I’ll be posting some pictures later.

Here’s a taste of the Coral Castle:  Here I am moving a 6 ton piece of coral which is the old entrance gate to the castle.

So far so good, free styling vacation is the way to go for a relaxed no pressure get away.

More to come…

Jennifer Mackay
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Florida Real Estate | Panama City

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