Shells restaurant

Tornado Watch

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February 3rd 2007
After a massive breakfast at the attached restaurant, we checked out of the nondescript Best Western, pleased that we weren't charged extra when I admitted that CJ had 'posted' the 2nd door card between the airconditioning louvres. We drove along the coast up to St. Pete's Beach, which sits at the bottom of a chain of islands roughly half-way up Florida's West Coast near Tampa. The beach sand wa ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more