Our last family trip to Tampa, Florida was spent at MacDill Air Force Base right on Tampa Bay. Two years in a row now we have hung our family vacation hats there. It is beautiful and sad to leave knowing that we may never be able to step foot on that base again, depending on where the Harley Family (Our Naval Roots) move to in the future.
Just imagine a running path made of chipped tires situated next to the Bay with a gentle breeze floating through your hair, as the sweat beads drip into your underwear and the sand sticks to your tennis shoes, flicking itself up with a splattering wetness on to your exposed calves.
Tampa's skyline situates itself directly across from where it is I run. The clouds are a lilting baby blue, the sky a steely color of awesomeness all directly residing over the light waves of the sandy bottomed Bay.
Their house had a screened in porch that let you gaze day and night at the leaping Sturgeon and flocks of Egrets as they did what they do daily, live contently in the Bay, and apparently piss off boaters according to this Tampa Bay Times Article.
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/outdoors/leaping-sturgeon-a-growing-threat-to-boaters-on-suwannee/1229086
If ever you get the chance to spend the day at MacDill Air Force Base, TAKE IT! And be grateful because many never get the chance to see the world from behind those military gates.
I know how lucky I am.
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