Today (Sunday) we reach the end of our cruise, but not the end of the warmth yet. We will still be in Tampa today and tomorrow, and do not fly back home until Tuesday.
Since we won’t be able to get into the AirBnB until the afternoon, we have selected the latest debarcation slot. We have a last leasurely breakfast and relax until it is our turn. Leaving the ship and entering the U.S. is very smooth. We take the free street car further down to the Tampa downtown, where we find some chairs so plunk ourselves down into.
There are small lizards in the park where we’re sitting. Apart from reading, we walk around the neighborhood a little bit. There is the site of the “Woolworth Sit-In” and an old movie theater. Otherwise, it is very, very quiet on this Sunday morning.
Finally it is time to go to the AirBnB. We take the free street car back up, then switch to bus #9. Unfortunately we seem to have read the time tables wrong. We thought the bus ran every 20 minutes, but it turns out that on Sunday it runs once every hour. We did figure out, however, that a bus ticket is two dollars per person single trip, exact change.
Once we’ve dropped our heavy stuff (the suitcase and Nicoline’s backback with the laptop and other electronics) in the AirBnB, we head back downtown. This time we don’t take the bus but walk to the free street car. There is an arts festival downtown that we want to look around in.
By the end of the day we eat at a Jamaican place and head back home.
We get ourselves some muffins and organge juice for breakfast tomorrow morning at the Ybor grocery store. Some of the neighbors are sitting outside and want to pose for the camera.
