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Hello my dear Blog readers! Unlike my other blogs this one is specifically created for travelers that are new to St. Petersburg, Florida; in particular guests that are coming to stay at our vacation rental:                                               https:/www.vrbo.com/3504544?unitID=4077690 Welcome to Casa Tropicana!  Our guests often ask us for food and activity suggestions during their visit in beautiful  St. Petersburg. So we decided to put together this reference guide! Restaurants/food in walking distance: Caribbean food                                 Seafood              Breakfast & Lunch All American Diner Chinese Take-out only Subway                1 mile and more Restaurants (our favorite picks)   Pizza                     Bakery and Cafe  Outdoor beachy vibes food ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Closest beaches Sunset Beach St Pete Beach Treasure Island Beach   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dinner boat cruise  Starlite Sapphire Calypso Breeze Dolphin boat rides Dolphin Snorkeling Cr

S a n f o r d Joe and I like to explore our surroundings,  near and far. Just recently we decided to do a little weekend getaway to Sanford,  Florida. Sanford sits on the northern tip of the greater Orlando, Florida area. From there its a decent drive to more central Orlando themeparks etc. But unlike Orlando with its stop and go traffic the traffic in Sanford is within "normal range".  So we booked house sitters for our boys as usual and were ready to go! Now, we've never heard of Sanford before. But that just happened to be the location of an Eagles cover band concert we wanted to see. It being a 3 hour drive from our home, it was worth staying there overnight.  Let me tell you, hotel or Airbnb rates for that area were insane. So we thought we lucked out when we finally came across a little motel online that was actually affordable.  Holy cow,  it ended up being a dump. It took an internal pep-talk with myself to not opt for sleeping in our car that night. B