Anyone here from Florida?
I'll be going on a two week trip next week
Rather exciting. I wondered if anyone has any tips for vegan travel there...
My first week will be working - catering for a group of people (delicious vegan food of course) and then I am taking a whole week for vacation. Flying in and out of Tampa, going to Palm Harbor and then after that, anywhere I like.
Ayway, if anyone has any insight into this place, I'd love to hear.
I live in Tampa, too! Make sure you hit the beach while you're here! Honeymoon Island is great old Florida, you have to take a ferry to the island beach, you can camp, and they have little bbq grills you can use. Also Ft Desoto beach is beautiful (and parts of it are clothing optional, I believe, but i haven't been to that section. St Pete Beach/Treasure Island is easy to get to and nice to watch the sunset over, great for kids, plus some beach bars.
Are you a runner, biker, skater? Bayshore Boulevard in downtownTampa is a spectacular long run by the bay. Busch Gardens is a fun theme park with great roller coasters and at night Hallowscream, a scary haunted park thing at this time of year. BG does have animals there including primates, elephants, and a white tiger breeding program.
The Salvatore Dali museum in St Petersburg, just across the bridge, is fantastic.
There's a ticky tacky fun flea market in Oldsmar near Palm Harbor on weekends. There's some nice produce there as well.
If you like ice hockey, our Tampa Bay Lightning arena is spectaular. A really fun experience.
Tons of craft breweries here with tours, too, that are fun. Cigar City brewery has a brewery/restaurant on north Tampa that has some vegan offerings.
There's a yummy loving Hut in a ghettoish area, also a dive called Taco Bus with fabulous cheap Mexican food, lots of vegan options. A Magic Mushroom restaurant for vegan pizza that's out of this world.
