Who hasn’t wanted to fly through space or bounce on the moon? While my childhood fantasies also included fighting aliens, history had at least proven the feasibility of the first two. That’s why we included the Kennedy Space Center as part of our Florida Northeast road trip. Unfortunately, the Center now only seems to host…
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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…
FEEL LIKE ROYALTY AND X-MEN ALL AT ONCE
The Plant Museum: if the inside is as beautiful as the outside… Ah, Downtown Tampa— tall building, tall building, ghetto and clean, old factories… and a palace? I’ve often passed the curiosity of a building– large, red-ish and topped with domes and minarets– and just thought of it as the Plant Museum– part of the…
HELLO DALI
Visiting the new Salvador Dali museum rounds out the ultimate Tampa Bay tourist. Despite looking at his paintings up close… then five steps back… then at one corner… then on my head… I think it’s better not to try and understand Salvador Dali. Yet, with the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg being only days old, I…
