Coming to Clearwater Beach, Florida! *PHOTOS ADDED*

Today was even colder. And awful. Have fun!

Just got back last night. Had a great time. Didn't wanna come home. I'll try to get pics up soon.

I love Florida. Hope you had an awesome time. Doesn't Hogan have a store and/or restaurant in Clearwater?

Damn this was from October 10th lol I didn't realize

Gah! I've been so busy since coming home from vacation that I totally forgot to post pics! I'll have them up real soon.

Also, I'm 26, live on my own and work full time. I don't live in my grandma's basement and haven't been a virgin since I was 15 (contrary to popular belief around here).

Plane landed Monday. Only 2 hours from Cleveland to Tampa. Hopefully didn't get Ebola. The Frontier flight with the diagnosed nurse who flew from Cleveland to Dallas was in our same terminal in Cleveland. We also flew Frontier. Different flight though.

Clearwater is only about 30 minutes from Tampa. It's very easy to get around. Clearwater Beach is a real cool little town. The hotel was perfect and had its own private beach. We could see Dolphins from the hotel room.

Day 1 was spent checking out the downtown area and shops of Clearwater Beach. Hulk Hogan has a beach shop in Clearwater Beach where I got a shirt and he also has a bar/restaurant in Tampa where we grabbed a couple drinks. Day 2 was rainy off and on. We spent the day checking out Ybor City in Tampa and hit a couple micro brews. Also ate a TON of delicious seafood down there. Crabby Bill's especially. I bought some hot sauce from there also. Day 3 was perfect and we did a jet ski tour which took 2 hours and covered about 35 miles. Excellent. Also checked out the sunset on the beach, of course. Day 4 we hung out on the beach before flying back home. I really didn't want to come back to Ohio after being down there.

Excellent trip. Best I've had yet.

Here are a handful of photos from the trip. I could have added a lot more but this is the stuff I figured most of you would be into seeing...

Most of these were taken the first day as it's kind of hard to take pictures from a Jet Ski or while on the beach.


View from our hotel room to private beach area.


This was actually taken from the parking lot behind Hogan's Beach Shop. I didn't take any pics while inside of the store, sadly. I did get a t-shirt from there though. Bushwhacker Luke has a 24 hour gym in the same building above Hogan's beach shop. I didn't go in there though.


This is in Ybor City (Tampa) after leaving the Tampa Brewing Company where I had the best pumpkin ale ever. *Side note* I collect glasses from micro brews with their logos. I got one at Tampa Brewing Company and one at Cigar City Brewing Company. Thankfully, they both made it home in one piece.


This is from Hogan's restaurant/bar in Tampa. Allegedly, these were worn when he slammed Andre at WM 3. This is the only pic I took but there was a TON of Hogan/wrestling memorabilia in that place. It was like a mini-museum.


That Florida beach sunset.


It's kind of hard to see but that's me on a big Pirate Ship which was decoration for a mini golf course right across from our hotel.

EVERYBODY was talking about that damn dolphin. Honestly, during my last two trips (Myrtle Beach & Toronto) I visited aquariums and I'm over them.

Excellent trip. Yeah aquariums are cool but I've visited two of them in the past year. That's enough.

I forgot to add they had a father & son street performance on the beach right after sunset. They were cool and did ladder balancing, juggling and fire swallowing. They were looking for "big strong guys" so me and a real heavy guy got pulled out of the crowd and had to tie the kid up in a straight jacket and wrap 40lbs chains around him.

He got out in under 3 minutes. Quite the escape artist.

The greatest photo in the history of our sport...