A while back I saw Carl Hiaasen on 60 Minutes. He seemed like an interesting guy and I made a note to someday read one of his books. I finally did. Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen is a fun story that takes place in the South Florida Everglades. I really don’t read enough fiction to [...]
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Ybor City Scrapbook (1994-1998)
This page was first assembled in 1999. From March 1994 to August 1998, I lived in the Tampa Bay area. This is my collection of Ybor City overviews and memorabilia.
Taco Bell and the Speed Zone
This story has been moved around my different web sites since 1997. The introduction was written in 2000. Do you have a story that you tell that is so unreal that as the years go by, even you start to doubt whether or not it ever took place? Whenever I think back to the Taco [...]
Meeting Hulk Hogan and Macho Man
About two years after my car chase with Hulk Hogan, Golds Gym opened a new location in South Tampa. As part of the grand opening they had Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage show up to sign autographs. Of course I had to go. It was a zoo. Wrestling is huge in Florida. The [...]
That Time I Got in a Car Chase With Hulk Hogan
It must have been July or August of 1994. I had just moved to Tampa Bay from Columbus in June. For a few days I had two friends down from Ohio. Being the host the of a new town, I took them for a drive of the area. Ryan was in the front seat and [...]
