We have taken several excursions during our stay here in Mus Mundi, including one to the big annual RV show in Tampa and a side visit to St. Pete and its Dali museum, comprising two days. Mostly on I-4, it seemed, but that's another story. Before going to the Dali in the late afternoon we walked a bit of downtown St. Pete, to the pier, documented in the pix below. It was a cold, windy, damp day, so we didn't tarry.
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| A bit of art deco...a car dealership of yore... |
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| On the University of South Florida campus, the home of the Florida Humanities Council, which I visited on a few occasions |
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| Interesting old tree near ground zero St. Pete |
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| Among my few memories of St. Pete, apart from the humanities, was visiting as a child, and a photo (now missing) of my standing before the old St. Pete pier building; above, as it was then |
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| And as it is now |
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| Looking back at the general aviation airport that sits nearly in the middle of downtown St. Pete |
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| Me, there, then, some 70 years after my first visit; that's Tampa Bay in the background, not El Golfo del Gringo Cabron |
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| Interesting architecture, graphics, and terminology... |
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| Recent hurricane damage at the airport |
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| Walking back through the campus area...we asked why it was called "all children's hospital"...because, when it was founded, not all hospitals in the south were for all children...many did not admit people of color |
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