April 2-3, 2019.

Kathie arrived from Rhode Island late Monday night. She's only going to be here a short while so she arranged to rent a bike. I swam in the pool this rainy Tuesday morning while Dianne drove Kathie to Dunedin to get the bike. I was alone in the pool, as usual.

After lunch it cleared up so Kathie and I went out for a bike ride. We rode exactly 25 miles.

Wednesday morning Dianne skipped her usual tennis date and the three of us rode to Whisky Joe's in Tampa.

It's always great fun to ride the Courtney Campbell Causeway bike bridge, and just about the only time I shift chain rings on my bike! We arrived at Whiskey Joe's right at noon and there were no servers.... we ordered our food at the bar and waited forever for it, not our usual experience here. But the fish tacos were excellent, as always.

We rode back across the causeway and detoured through Philippe Park. It's like a breath of fresh air riding through the silent park, enjoying the Spanish moss and the view of Tampa Bay. There was more traffic than usual today because the birders were out in force looking at the newly fledged great horned owls up in a tree. The road was blocked off from traffic for the safety of the birders and the birds!

Kathie and I walked up to the top of the Tocabaga Indian Temple Mound, built from layers of shells and sand long before the Spanish settlers arrived here in the 1500s and decimated the Indian population with their European diseases. This is the largest mound remaining in the Tampa area and is only about one quarter of its original size.