New Meaning to Day Trips in the Car - How About Day Ride

Well I used to like to go on little day trips when I lived in Austin, like to Fredricksburg or Blanco just to spend the day. Well now I am rediscovering Tampa after a 30 year absence. One nice thing for cycling is it is really very flat here, but biker beware it does not mean that the streets are free from obstacles. I live in the NW corner of Tampa and I rode several miles away to the north central part of town to go to the public pool to swim. I passed many beautiful neighborhoods as I went, as well as interesting shops. The most impressive was a Cuban style rotisserie chicken which was very much like Pollo Regio back home. I hope to stop in there when LeLe comes to visit. I practically had the pool all to myself, because I got there late in the afternoon close to closing time. I swam there as a child, and it seemed so big then, but it was much smaller to me. The water was crystal clear and very clean. It had rained earlier in the afternoon, so the water was a perfect coolness for swimming. After the pool, I headed over to my brother's house where I visited with him, his wife and 3 children. We all practiced "perfect push-ups", then played Bible Trivia while the girls made me beautiful bead bracelets to wear. His son made us his finest Cuban coffee, oh so yummy. I rode home in the dark, cool evening air. It was a memorable day. Oh one thing I forgot to mention was that on the way to his house I saw a nail salon that said "LeLe's Nails" it made me think of LeLe. I miss her so much. I sent her a text message with a picture of that just to be silly.