We did a really good job banking some extra sleep after the long day yesterday. We didn’t start rolling around until almost 11 AM. Once we got rolling it was time to head over to St. Petersburg on the west coast of Florida. When we left I was driving and we went up north to Fort Lauderdale, then cut west on I-75 on the Everglades Parkway, also known as Alligator Alley. I-75 took a northerly bend around Naples that is close to the coast. We traveled up north until we hit I-275 in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area and took that into St. Petersburg. As we were driving in this area it made me think it would be a great place to tour all of the Grapefruit League cities during spring training some year. We continue on I-275 until it meets I-175 and we are right at The Trop for tonight’s game against Detroit. This was supposed to be the 4th time we’ve seen the Tigers during this trip, but we lost the game the Tigers played in Pittsburgh due to the rainout in Philadelphia last week. We are here in plenty of time for the game and found our favorite coffee shop, Starbucks, and took advantage of their wi-fi to send this out. The plan is to eat at the game. Once the game is over we will head out of the Tampa/St. Pete area and start out toward our next destination. If we can put a couple hundred miles or so we can stop and get a few short hours of rest before moving on very early in the morning. I’ll have a short post game report when we finally stop for the night. More to follow…
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