THE BRITISH INVADE YELP TAMPA BAY

Hi Ladies and Gents. I’ve returned from a rather groovy shin-dig. Drastically different from its past events, review website Yelp decided to hold its most recent gathering as a… dramatic pause… British Sixties party at a car dealership. (Yes! That’s FOUR levels of strangeness altogether) We were assured several times there would be no selling…

AMASS THE CHRISTMAS (DISPLAY)

I thought I was in a regular neighborhood. Houses melted away. Dim street lamps faded into the distance. Suddenly red glimmering lights were streaming from a point poking up above the rooftops. Could it be?– a Christmas hoarder’s heaven! The Oakdale Christmas display is a mini celebrity in the world of insane Christmas decorations. (Apparently…

WANT MORE ASIAN CULTURE

It’s not every day I step into a tourists zone and get chased down by a flying dragon. On this hot October, Pyra and Company descended upon Downtown Disney’s west area to visit Asia Trend Magazine’s annual tour through Asia without the hassles of taking horrible passport photos. The Asian Cultural Expo was already in…

FLORIDIAN AT SAN DIEGO BEACHES

Travel disaster Pyra is back (!) and this time in South California for the annual family-trip-that-went-on-hiatus-for-two-years. Join the V-sas as we go around South California on a budget. From the eyes of a Floridian who loves the simplicity and peacefulness of sandy beaches… La Jolla and Pacific-Mission was like entering a tourists trap with a…