Comments on: Hilton

By: Sinyee

Sinyee — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:43:54 +0000

I just stumbled on your blog from urbanspoon.com. I love it that you showcase local restaurants. I’m going to try some of your recommendations.

By: Newt

Newt — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:38:56 +0000

Hilton, I just stumbled on your blog while looking for breakfast (so – am heading for Jo-El’s). I love the insights and will be sampling more of your recommendations. I blog from a different perspective – exploring the merits of retiring early to Florida from some less eccentric part of the world – but it’s clear that I have found some “living room” here. Your blog helps with the furnishings. Thanks.

Newt

By: chip neville

chip neville — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:07:50 +0000

Hilton! INKWATU is super groovie. What a great article you wrote about Oktoberfest. Thanks for the props. (to all; 2 of those are my young kids dancing with the Gulf Coast Enzianer Schuhplattler) And yes Café Vienna…uhuh jaaaah….ser gut!

chipneville

By: Hilton Kean Jones

Hilton Kean Jones — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:35:28 +0000

Thanks for the great comment, Sue!

By: Sue DelSasso

Sue DelSasso — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:23:21 +0000

This long pier is so much fun!! I fly down from Chicago every year in October. The weather is like 82 degrees everyday and the fish are biting. I love fishing on a wooded pier, it’s easy on your feet if you want to fish for 8 hours. The birds will entertain you or beg from you. Keep your lunch closed up tightly. This pier is a real working pier, it can be smelly at times, some bird poop about, but it is a natural setting. People from many nations on vacation visit this pier, I just wish they brought their fishing poles with them! They would have a blast!
I bring my freshwater tackle, 20 lb test line, with a wire leader…No. 6 hooks with fresh frozen shrimp. You can catch almost anything with that. Even a smaller hook, is just as good.
Good luck in fishing, Sue

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:58:49 +0000

Thank you for your site.
I was born in St.Petersburg and never fully appreciated it. I couldn’t wait to go to college out-of-state, move up here to New England and conquer the world. It has only recently dawned on me how truly beautiful St.Pete is, and how much I’ve missed being there. (My theory is that this year’s seemingly endless winter caused an epiphany, and I have now realized that I have been dreadfully homesick for years). Like Dorothy, I now know that I need not have looked past my own back yard for my heart’s desire.

Until I can click the heals however, reading sites such as yours are a nice temporary substitute.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:07:43 +0000

Thank you for sharing the story of your “handle.” and again, thank you for sharing your experiences; it truly has helped me find MY Tampa Bay!! -Elaine

By: Hilton Kean Jones

Hilton Kean Jones — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:47:11 +0000

Hi Elaine

I’m very glad you’ve enjoyed the posts. I enjoy writing them and taking the pictures for them.

You’re the first person to ask, on the site, what Inkwatu means. It’s just a made up word I came up with about eight years ago. There was an internet company–I think it was Yahoo, but I don’t remember for sure–that, instead of the term, “username,” that most companies use now–used the word “alias.” I think it was because the company allowed the user to have several different identities, they called aliases. I was never very good at devising clever usernames that didn’t sound too dumb or obvious. I sighed and said to myself, “I never know what alias to use!”

Now, composers have a peculiar affinity for codes and things kind of mathematical so it occurred to me that the first letter of each of the words in that sentence created a collection of consonants and vowels that, linguistically, somehow made it sound like a “real” word in some unknown language. So…I adopted that as my username. Later, it became my email address, and then eventually, the name of my blog.

I’ve heard many guesses as to what language it might come from, what it might mean, how it was pronounced. I’m pleased to share that it’s just a made up word because I never knew what alias to use.

Hilton

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:56:49 +0000

May I ask what INKWATU means? I have been enjoying your posts immensely since stumbling onto them during a web search for things to entertain my out-of-town guests. Thank you!

By: Sheryl Ross

Sheryl Ross — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:46:03 +0000

Aloha! Here is the very beginnings of my blog-boy do I need advice-yours is so vibrant and alive. I want to do that with education like you do with food and travel. Any advise is welcomed. I have been ill-but well now-so I hope we can “talk” often. Mahalo Nui Loa! Sheryl Ross