{"id":3311,"date":"2013-08-04T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennygibson.com\/blog\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2015-11-28T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:01:41","slug":"trip-pic-peek-10-trip-72-christmas-on-the-alafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/trip-pic-peek-10-trip-72-christmas-on-the-alafia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip Peek #10
Trip #72
Christmas on the Alafia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"US<\/a>This picture is from the my 2008 Christmas on the Alafia<\/a>\u00a0road trip which was my third “Christmas Escape Run”. The Alafia is a river just south of Tampa, Florida, where my great-grandparents spent Christmas Eve in 1920. By sticking to expressways, I managed to get there on Christmas Eve 2008. I didn’t get to hang out on the river bank as they did but I did get to hang out with some of the wintering circus folk at the Showtown Bar in Gibsonton. I then drove the Tamiami Trail and a lot of Dixie Highway before reaching home on January 3. I slipped into Key West on the 27th but didn’t even spend the night. The END 1 sign was just about the last thing I saw before I started driving north looking for a vacant motel room I could afford. That didn’t happen until I reached Florida City back on the mainland.<\/p>\n

Trip Pic Peek #9 — Trip #66 — 2008 Route 66 Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

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Trip Pic Peeks are short articles published when my world is too busy or too boring for a current events piece to be completed in time for the Sunday posting. In addition to a photo thumbnail from a completed road trip, each Peek includes a brief description of that photo plus links to the full sized photo and the trip journal it is from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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