Day 2 - More Traveling

Yesterday was another travel day. We spent Friday night in Daytona Beach and decided that we had to stop and tour the Daytona International Speedway before we crossed the Florida peninsula.

 

Beautiful Daytona Beach

The track is quiet impressive, but after visiting we decided that it is not a place that we want to watch a race. The darn thing is just too big, and too much of it can't be seen. Hey, that doesn't make it a bad place just not our style.

 

 

The Start/Finish line

 

Ryan Newman's winning #12 car from the 2008 Daytona 500

 

Al and the #88 Mountain Dew/ Amp car

After reaching the Tampa area we went up to Tarpon Springs for dinner. Our main purpose was to visit a restaurant that is no longer there, that was not what we expected, but it turned out perfect.

We ended up eating at a place called Mykanos, wonderful homemade Greek cuisine. The pastichio, dolmades, tiropita, and avegolemono were all home made, and the rice pudding was some of the best that I have had in years. Alex was amazed that a place like that exists in the US, and of course he had to visit some of the stores, which my wife refers to as dusty closets.

This morning we will be off to the ship around 10:15 - 10:30. Plans are to park at the port.

More to come later.