Port Richey, Tarpon Springs, Dunedin and Clearwater

After our nice shower at the YMCA in Spring Hills, FL, we made our way to our accommodations for the night, their WalMart parking lot. I think we may have been the only overnighters there.

^Me enjoying the free wifi at the YMCA.

Who wouldn't want to sleep in a WalMart parking lot with a view like this??!!??

(JK, but everyone should try this at least once. The key is having a nice comfortable bed on which to sleep. And BTW, this pic isn't from Spring Hill, it was made the night before, but wanted to post it anyway.)

Here are pics of what the van looks like when we are traveling.

From the back:

From the front seat looking back:

The grey fabric rolled up is our curtain we hang behind the seat for privacy.

Today consisted of eating breakfast in Port Richey, then heading to Tarpon Springs.

We especially liked our welcome committee who was parked on the side of the street.

As you can see, there is a person looking thing in there, so we had to get a closer look.

We thought this was pretty funny. Anthony read the name tag, S. Price. We thought that could mean SURPRISE!!! Which it was. At first we thought he was real, lol.

Tarpon Springs is famous for its sponges and became an important center for sponge diving when Greek divers came to the area in the early 1900s.

 There is a large percentage of Greeks that still live here today as was evident from all the Greek restaurants and bakeries in the area. 

This next house is of the Safford House, which unfortunately wasn't open on the weekends (what the heck??!!??). It is the house of one of the founding families.

We also saw St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral, which was amazingly ornate.

One more thing that caught Anthony's attention was this old Volkswagen van that was parked in front of a bike shop.

This was the sticker on the windshield.

I guess you have to have a permit for everything these days, ha!

AND the place you stick your head through for a funny picture:

The next town we visited was Dunedin.

They had a street market and all sorts of people milling around.

It was a cute community.

Next we headed to Clearwater, FL. We made a friend who worked at Whole Foods in Chattanooga, and she transferred to the WF in Clearwater, so we decided to stop by to see if she was working, and she sure was. It was fun going through her line and surprising her, and got to visit her for a bit on her break.

Tomorrow we are taking Liann to breakfast and then riding bikes and making sure we see a beach sunset, which I am looking forward to very much.