How to fill time in retirement

I have visited six new restaurants in the past few weeks. Three were local and three were on my short trip to St Petersburg. Here is my impressions of each. I am way ahead of schedule for 26 new places this year. I should be at 13 (makes sense since year is half gone) but I have done 18. Island Time Marina & Restaurant - Cocoa Beach  Not sure of the history of this place but it was my first visit. The place is located on 520 just pass the Sunset Waterfront Grill and right before Long Doggers. It is on the south side of the road. Parking lot was confusing but I think they have parking out back. The place is huge. There is an inside bar, an outback bar, and a upper deck bar. I sat under the hanging shark in the bar out back. I ordered the lobster bisque to start. It was very tasty but the spoon was too small. I ended up drinking the soup like I do my miso at Japanese places. It was good though... My lunch entree was the Island Time tacos with shrimp. There were l...

It was a last minute thing, but my friend Teresa who lives in Saint Petersburg, had invited me to an unusual double header. In the past, Teresa was a partial season ticket holder to the Tampa Bay Rays. I have written about past visits to see the Yankees and Red Sox. This year, she gave up these tickets, as I have given up my Magic Season tickets. She emailed mean opportunity, to see both a Rays baseball game and a Rowdies soccer game, for $30 per ticket. The baseball game was scheduled for 1:10 pm at Tropicana Field versus the Los Angeles Angels. She had only purchased the tickets Friday night so we had to go and pick them up at the "Will Call". We entered from the city side and had to walk to the other side. We went through the security check, back out, saw a black snake, and then stood in line next to the people that had players leaving them tickets. Tropican is big on the inside, but even bigger on the outside... We went to our seats first in Section 215. Raymond the...