Before I subject you to another Tampa parade (What? Don’t Tampa people have anything better to do?) let me say the San’t Yago Knight Parade is the craziest of the parades that crash this city. The parade begins like all the other parades… the same floats… the same costumes… lots of beads. But this parade…
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IT’S GASPARILLA CRAZY TIME
ARG! Once a year executives trade neck ties for eye patches, throw beads instead of business cards, and Tampa falls into the hands of pirates (and beer cans, port-o-potties, and plastic wrappers). It was Gasparilla time! For you non-Tampa natives, Gasparilla is a Tampa-made holiday where the city celebrates fictional Jose Gaspar, a pirate. Did…
KITES INVADE TREASURE ISLAND
BAM! I turned at the noise to see a small teddy bear fall from the sky. A little girl laughed and placed the plush toy upright in the sand. Almost immediately, a giant green and black kite swooped down and picked the toy up by the hook around the bear’s neck. The teddy bear was…
MANATEES LOVE TAMPA ELECTRIC
In my attempt to escape the northern air that was trying to take control of Florida, I came face-to-face with dozens of sumos playing in the water. I wasn’t in a Las Vegas buffet… or waiting in line for the monorail at Disney. I was watching the equivalent of me jumping into jacuzzi– except in the form…
