Mykonos is the favorite of the locals – still run by the founder well up in age!
I visit a tooling vendor about every Saturday to make certain everything is on track. I then take the coastal route through Tarpon Springs, Palm Harbor and Dunedin into Clearwater. All these places are distant memories to me, as I lived here for a time back in 2004.
Tarpon Springs is the most colorful of all these communities, as it still has a strong Greek heritage and its roots in sponge diving. Sponges today are mostly for the tourist to buy, as they no longer play a role in what they did best before plastics were invented. Yet the tradition lives on and this is a great little pocket of culture on the gulf coast of Florida.
Sponge divers still dive for sponges – likely not with the old diving gear of the past!
An associate (who happens to be of Greek heritage) recommended Mykonos as the best place to eat, but I failed to ask what to order. Given Greek food is Greek to me, I ordered that combo plate. It was likely wrong choice, but is was good, and so large that I made two meals of it.
When in doubt, just ask the waitress what to order – I doubt she would recommend a combo – it was good never-the-less!
I love these little pockets of culture, and of course they exist all over the planet in so many manifestations as to be incomprehensible In spite of the somewhat heavy lunch, I love this place. The next time I will know what to order. The last time that I was here, my mom and one of my sisters were visiting. I have a record of that on the old blog that I have yet to republish. Now this day, and that day are all recorded as a visual memory.
In two weeks I will make the long journey to California. I’m preparing my BMW for the trip and bring what I can fit in. I will likely get a rooftop carrier and drag along the essential gear. It should be fun, but there is much to do before I leave.
