Blogs from Clearwater, Florida, United States, North America - page 3

1/29/07 The drive to Clearwater Beach was pretty cool. To get to Clearwater Beach you drive through Tampa. To me it looked like a City in California. Palm Trees lining all the roads and water everywhere. It was great. Made it to the Hostel around 5:30 and checked in. I hurriedly went to the Beach to see the sunset. The sunset was pretty cool. I went out and had a couple beers and went to bed around 11:00. 1/30/07 Got up pretty early and worked on the Travelblog for several hours. There were a lot of people cooking at this Hostel and several extended stayers living there. Like all the other Hostels everybody was very nice. Around 10:00 decided to bike to Honeymoon Island. There are lots of great bike paths in this area. Pinellas Trail ... read more

The Method is one of traveling. "The title sounds familiar", you think? Its a book by the great philosopher Rene Descartes. His most famous expression is "Cogito ergo sum", French for, as my boy Pat knows, "I Think Therefore I am". A bold statement in the 1600s is still a imposing statement in the 21 century. Basically, what I'm getting at is that another trip has reared its beautiful head. Im off to Eastern Europe. When i mentioned this to fellow Americans they did not exactly sure where this area is located even though we were at war with this area only 7 yars ago! Damn American school system budget cuts, there goes geography! Anyways, Im more excited than my more recent trip to Egypt. This area is just now coming out of the dark ages ... read more

Its about that time. Time for what you ask? Time to get the hell out of dodge. Im off to Costa Rica in a few days. I cant wait to use the Spanish that i have been practicing over the last few months. I'll keep this short: I'm excited/cant wait/no work for 2 weeks. thats it... read more

Well its a few days late but last weekend my brother, Keith and I made a short trip to Fort Desoto, down in south St. Pete. It was a good trip, hot and humid but good other than sleeping in the heat. The park is really cool, campsites right on the water and the beach is less than a mile down the road. Lots of trails for running, biking and skating etc.... but overall my favorite park is the lack of development in the park lots of nature areas and wildlife around I recomemned anyone to visit, Ill post a few pics aif I can figure it out, Also only about 5 days until I leave for Japan.... Also I know these photos are awesome and yes I will do your wedding... read more

We left the dock around 0600, up the ICW. Came into Tampa Bay, and it was so cold, we took turns helming for 30 min shifts. Al bundled, looked like we were in Alaska, but darn wind was blowing at 30 knots steady, 6 foot seas, what an experience. We crossed to the Skyway channel by Maximo Point. Kept heading North on the ICW until Clearwater Beach Municipal Marina. We bunked in here, no heater, we did have sleeping bags. We shook from the cold all night. ... read more