[TAMPA BAY] 5 Bridges Run, Sunday 1/14/7
12-17-2006, 09:25 PM
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[TAMPA BAY] 5 Bridges Run, Sunday 1/14/7
All Corvettes invited to a 5 Bridges Run on Sunday, January 14th!
This run is 100 miles, takes less than two hours, and goes over all 5 of the major bridges over Tampa Bay: Sunshine Skyway, Gandy Bridge, Howard Franklin Bridge, Bayside Bridge, and Courtney Campbell Causeway.
At the end you are invited to meet with us at Landry's Seafood House for their famous Sunday Brunch.
We will meet in front of the Office Depot behind Hooters and McDonalds on US60 in Brandon, just West of I-75. This is the location used by Tampa Bay Vettes for their cruises, in case you are familiar with them. The address of the Office Depot is 10057 Adamo Drive, Tampa, in case you want to use a GPS or Google/Yahoo to find it.
We will leave promptly at 9:00 AM, and should arrive at Landry's, on Rocky Point, just before 11.
With tax and tip, figure on about $30 per person for Landry's brunch. Although I have not had it myself, it is famous in the Tampa Bay area so should be worth it. Landry's has excellent off-street parking with lots of room to park as a group away from other vehicles.
The only other cost besides your gas is a $1.00 toll for the Sunshine Skyway bridge.
Maps and directions will be provided at the run start (at least until we run out). No door prizes, poker hands, raffle tickets, dash plaques, etc. Just a nice drive over the bridges with a group of Corvettes, and brunch and chat at the end if you're so inclined.
You are invited!
If you are pretty certain you are going to come, I would appreciate it if you would let me know so I can know how many maps to print up. If you plan to join us at Landry's, please let me know that as well so we can give them a rough headcount.
Hope to see you there!
Dave
aka Gannet
This run is 100 miles, takes less than two hours, and goes over all 5 of the major bridges over Tampa Bay: Sunshine Skyway, Gandy Bridge, Howard Franklin Bridge, Bayside Bridge, and Courtney Campbell Causeway.
At the end you are invited to meet with us at Landry's Seafood House for their famous Sunday Brunch.
We will meet in front of the Office Depot behind Hooters and McDonalds on US60 in Brandon, just West of I-75. This is the location used by Tampa Bay Vettes for their cruises, in case you are familiar with them. The address of the Office Depot is 10057 Adamo Drive, Tampa, in case you want to use a GPS or Google/Yahoo to find it.
We will leave promptly at 9:00 AM, and should arrive at Landry's, on Rocky Point, just before 11.
With tax and tip, figure on about $30 per person for Landry's brunch. Although I have not had it myself, it is famous in the Tampa Bay area so should be worth it. Landry's has excellent off-street parking with lots of room to park as a group away from other vehicles.
The only other cost besides your gas is a $1.00 toll for the Sunshine Skyway bridge.
Maps and directions will be provided at the run start (at least until we run out). No door prizes, poker hands, raffle tickets, dash plaques, etc. Just a nice drive over the bridges with a group of Corvettes, and brunch and chat at the end if you're so inclined.
You are invited!
If you are pretty certain you are going to come, I would appreciate it if you would let me know so I can know how many maps to print up. If you plan to join us at Landry's, please let me know that as well so we can give them a rough headcount.
Hope to see you there!
Dave
aka Gannet
12-17-2006, 10:06 PM
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Boy do i wish i was there for that
i would love to do something like that. do you do this in the spring as well...better time to slip out of tn and get back home to seminole.
i would love to do something like that. do you do this in the spring as well...better time to slip out of tn and get back home to seminole.
12-18-2006, 09:41 AM
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This will be fun 
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You better call Laundry's and tell them to expect a big group.
May even offer a group discount, you never know
.You better call Laundry's and tell them to expect a big group.
May even offer a group discount, you never know
12-18-2006, 06:22 PM
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Hmmm, I'm working in Tampa during the week. May have to stay that weekend and drive the Vette down.
12-18-2006, 10:51 PM
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Sounds great.
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I will be coming from Merritt Island, Let me know all info that you have on the location!
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I will be bringing my "beach babe" with me !!
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Neatnic!!
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I will be coming from Merritt Island, Let me know all info that you have on the location!
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I will be bringing my "beach babe" with me !!
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Neatnic!!
12-19-2006, 06:19 AM
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Here's a Google Map to the start location.
If coming from the East, take I-4 across to I-75. Go south on I-75 (exit towards Naples). You go about 3 miles on I-75. Exit to the right (west) at US-60/Brandon (Adamo Drive). Left at the first light after you exit, then turn right into the shopping center parking lot. The intersection will have a Shell station on the Northwest corner (good place to gas up), and a Hooters on the Southwest corner. The Office Depot is in the same mall, and to the South and slightly West of Hooters.
If coming from the East, take I-4 across to I-75. Go south on I-75 (exit towards Naples). You go about 3 miles on I-75. Exit to the right (west) at US-60/Brandon (Adamo Drive). Left at the first light after you exit, then turn right into the shopping center parking lot. The intersection will have a Shell station on the Northwest corner (good place to gas up), and a Hooters on the Southwest corner. The Office Depot is in the same mall, and to the South and slightly West of Hooters.
12-23-2006, 08:50 PM
#12
Man am I jealous! I have driven all of those bridges with the wife and daughters while on vacation. All I remember is it was as close as I have been to the perfect place to live in the winter months.
12-25-2006, 08:18 PM
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Man, I wish I could be there. I miss Tampa alot. I bought my '89 there and was always cruising the thong beaches at the end of the bridges 
. Course there probably won't be much of that in Jan.
. Course there probably won't be much of that in Jan.
