We drive to Tampa on Tuesday arriving late in the day so straight to the hotel.

Wednesday 4AM
Yes, it is early! We must be in place and ready to go for security sweeps at the St. Pete Times Forum where the Senator will be speaking at. Alreaady at about 6AM people were lineing up and hoping to get a good seat. Shirts, buttons, and stickers litter a sea of people wraping around the building.

7AM
Security sweep and we have to leave by the order of Secret Service. We head to a small coffee shop near downtown Tampa.

9:30AM
We arrive back and prepare to film the event. The energy is unlike any of seen before in a Presidential candidate rally I've been to before. Not even Al Gore generated this kind of energy and it seemed as though everyone was one unit. No colors, no genders, no ethnicity. Wow.

11AM
Barack arrives and begins his speech. We had a hard time getting the laptop computer connected with the little camera I brought so we had to crash a package and feed in the video via satellite. What a pain in the ass.

3pm
Off to Orlando via bus. We now get to see what it's like in a motorcade with cops shutting down the route as we traveled. Blowing through red lights and not stopping for anything. Sort of fun actually. Ha.

Arriving in Orlando now abour 4:30PM, we prepare to go live from inside where Obama is speaking to a group at a town hall meeting setting. We crash a package and head to dinner.

We come back to the Orlando stop and cut another story then it's live at ten and eleven...finally after 18 hours, we head to the hotel and lights out! Finally.

Thursday Morning
We climb onto the buses and then it's off to the airport fo jump aboard the press express to FLL and another bus ride to Boca where Obama is speaking to a group of Jewish voters and to address the comments he made about Israel.

More stories for the early shows and then our day was done. A wrap to a trip filled with fast timelines, stress, and some chit chat with the folks who follow the Senator everyday. Just an amazing experience. Here is my press credential. Great way to remember this trip.