Some cities really live up the New Year's holiday... like NY with the big ball or Chicago with fireworks off the lake or Atlanta...
with that peach thingie dropping by all those Fila and Footlocker stores near Underground... anywho...
This year Michi (aka Eric) and The-New-Tony-Detroit (aka Tony) needed to find a New Year's mini trip that brought excitement and new places to explore...
since their native Detroit had neither of these...
Tony knew he had to start of 2007 with some good photos, for he had lost in a tragic computer crash most of his 2006 work
(including some really choice stuff in Birmingham, Nashville, Washington, Richmond, Detroit and Louisville
) and could not add to the hundreds of 2006
year end "best of" threads.
Tony and Eric brainstormed: they could go east - to Philly, Baltimore and DC - but it was not clear to them in early December when they
planned this that these areas would be having 70 degree weather in January. They almost decided to head to new territory - Tulsa, Dallas,
Little Rock and maybe even Houston... but it was going to be so expensive to find hotel rooms that fit their meager
out-of-college-but-still-poor-like-college budget.
Then... it all came together... Let me present:
Our first stop... Tampa! (Fri 29 Dec 06 - 6.5 hours of touring)
If the new condo tower comes with one of these boys in each unit... Tony is moving to Tampa!
Historic Ybor City - a very awesome place!
Authentic Trolley Line connects the southern portion of downtown near the Convention Center to Ybor City.
Channelside - good concept, but more residential growth will help this area more!
Red Square? Naw - The former Tampa Bay Hotel, now the centerpiece to the University of Tampa
It took an hour of walking around the expansion of Tampa General Hospital on Davis Island to get this shot - so enjoy it!
Next stop - the Keys for New Years! (Thread in a day or so!)