Day 28: February 17, 2010

Our second day in Tampa started with a tour of A Brighter Community, Inc. , a preschool and early education center. This organization, founded in 1925, has served four generations of Tampa's kids, is nationally accredited, serves 400 meals a day and has the fourth highest prekindergarten readiness scores of any in the state. What a program and what a partnership with United Way and the City of Tampa.

After touring A Brighter Community, fifty kids from the program walked with me to the Library where I had the chance to read to them. After finishing up, the kids returned to their preschool and I headed out to Ybor City, logging an additional six miles as I walked on through.