Tampa

Friday March 1, 2013: We arrived at Tampa early and set out to tour the city. Wayne loves trolley cars and Tampa has trolley mass transit. We rode from one end to the other. It ended in an area called Ybor City. Ybor is the Cigar Capital of the World. (Interesting fact: The cigar rollers would sit at desks all day rolling the cigars and as they did it there were lecturers who would sit up on tall platforms reading to them. They would read the newspaper, books and, discuss political events. The workers would be the best educated people in the area.) On the ride back we got off downtown and did the River Walk. Tampa did a great job and their River Walk. It was very beautiful. There was art. There were flowers, and areas to eat or sip your favorite beverage as you looked over the river.
That night we did our final pack and watched another episode of Downton Abby on the iPad.
 
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