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Exotic Hotel For Travelers to Florida
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 9 February 2010
Travel Tuesday On Tuesday, I borrow the phrase Travel Tuesday from Twitter, put down my books and talk about my own travels. Destination: Tampa, Florida Attraction: The Tampa Bay Hotel I have a very bad habit of accumulating stuff. I don’t just accumulate it–I have to have it where I can see it–preferably reach it at a moment’s notice–because [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library
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Playing On Florida’s Gulf Coast With Babies & Young Children: Madeira Beach
Blog: Have Baby Will Travel - 7 December 2009
As a kid, I went to Florida quite a few times with my parents, and then again once they split with both my mom and my dad. We always stayed in little beach motels or in rented condos on the Gulf Coast. I have such fond memories of the beach and the sun – those [...]
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The House That Bowling Balls Built
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 22 November 2009
Everywhere I went in the small village of Safety Harbor, Florida, people told me the same thing: “You have to see the bowling ball house.” It was easy to find, but even without directions it would have been hard to miss the pyramid of 200 bowling balls stacked on the front lawn. Fascinated, I walked [...]
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Seeing Double at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 7 November 2009
Although I don’t pretend to understand the surreal images of distorted females and melting clocks that pervade the art of Salvador Dali, his work had always intrigued me. I simply assumed the symbolism was an unknowable product of a demented mind. So I was surprised when the docent at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. [...]
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Sarasota’s Lovely Bayfront Park
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 15 September 2009
I've lived in downtown Sarasota for nearly three years and thought I'd seen everything the city center had to offer until the other day, when I took a walk along Sarasota Bay. Just two blocks from the heart of downtown I discovered an arched entryway leading to Bayfront Park, a ...
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