We're leaving Tampa today and heading as far north into Georgia as we can before ten o'clock or so. I'm going to try to post at least once a day during the trip out to Portland for anyone interested. We'll be making a few stops along the way to visit family and should land in Oregon next Friday some time.
A couple of things that I forgot to mention about Tampa. First, we went to the new location of the Dali museum in St. Pete's. The building was completed late in 2010 and open to the public just last month. The architecture stands out right away making for an appropriate prelude to the works inside. You can pay for a guided tour and hear all about Dali's life and evolution as an artist, or you can just read the plaques. Either way you can knock this one out in an afternoon and then tour around St. Pete's for a bit.
Second, I volunteered at Feeding America Tampa Bay a couple of days a week. This organization is truly an amazing effort and is so well organized. Donations are taken in from local grocery store chains and private contributors and are then assessed for quality, organized into categories and redistributed back into the community. It's technically a food bank but walking into this place is like being in a Costco sized warehouse full of donated food items. They have facilities in every state and you can find their locations through their main site linked above.
One last thing that I'll miss about Tampa - the Publix chain of grocery stores. Seriously, I know how lame it is to have a crush on a grocery store but what I'm going to miss most about it is their generic store brand. Not because the food is necessarily leaps and bounds beyond anything else out there. It's the graphic design on the packaging. Anyway, I know it's lame but there you have it.
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