Tampa, Florida

Yudian Navigating in the RV
Tampa Skyway Bridge in distance
Approaching....Down the other side...Restaurant View
Anna Maria Beach after lunch

Within days of farewelling my sister & aunt in New Orleans, we were enjoying family again. This time in Tampa with my brother Tony & his wife Yudian. You may recall they also caught up with us all in Las Vegas. Since we had last seen them, they had travelled to Miami, Cancun, Cuba & New York and really enjoyed their travels.

As they hadn't seen our RV before, we picked them up in it to take them on a short road trip. We drove west from Tampa until we hit the Gulf, then went north up the west coast to Tarpon Springs, an area noted for its history of sponge divers. It also has the highest Greek-American population in the US. The first Greek immigrants arrived in the 1880's and were employed as divers for the growing sponge harvest industry. We found a restaurant called Santorini right on the water and enjoyed our lunch there.

The next day our friend Rainie kindly lent us her car, so that when our RV was put into the service bay to get a new connection on a hot water pipe today, we were able to pick Tony & Yudian up and do another short day trip. We changed direction and headed south. The drive over the Tampa Skyway bridge was beautiful, and before long we found a superb little restaurant right on the beach at Anna Maria. The sky was blue, the sand was white, and the water was a glorious turquoise colour. See for yourselves in the photos. Tomorrow we say goodbye to them after we drop them at the airport. That will be the last we see of any family until we return home in late September.