BIG AND BEAUTIFUL BALBOA PARK

The Travel Disaster named Pyra is back (!) and being dragged around South California for the annual-family-trip-that-went-on-hiatus-for-two-years. Visit family-friendly destinations on a budget with us! You’ll notice my writing tone will take a nose dive into the land of the boring because I am bored now from writing about California (After just THREE entries!? No…

VISITING EGYPT IN ST. PETE

Perhaps I went in with images of chiseled abs and eye liner like those from the movie “The Mummy,” but I left floating with an expanded head of knowledge about the Egyptian art and magic that survived many centuries. It’s no mistake the exhibit is entitled “Egypt: the Art and Magic.” At first glance it…

FESTIVE FIESTA… AND FLAN

There’s nothing better than my nose getting slapped by the delicious smells of food. Except eating it perhaps.   After fighting the cobblestone corners of the tiny Ybor City in search of a parking space for less than $5… I stumbled onto 7th Avenue victoriously- “I made it!”… and was promptly rewarded when my nose…