On the Road With...
Indiana’s Tamika Whitmore

Indiana Fever forward Tamika Whitmore has played for three WNBA teams and has had the opportunity to play in various basketball leagues around the world during WNBA offseasons. But the 2006 All-Star is still looking for her first vacation in seven years! Whitmore, who has a love for cars and racing, did, however, find some time to visit the Indianapolis 500.

Q. What are some countries you've gotten to travel to for basketball or personal reasons?
Whitmore: "I’ve been to Israel, Korea, Taiwan, France, Spain, I played in Spain for three years, I really liked it there, and it’s more Americanized than any other country I’ve been to. This year I had the opportunity to go to Poland."

Tamika Whitmore has traveled the world, but is still looking for a vacation.
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Q. What is one place you haven't been that you would like to see?
Whitmore: "Cancun, I’d love to get down there because I haven’t had a vacation in seven years."

Q. What is your favorite place to go on vacation?
Whitmore: "Haven’t had one, actually my sister lives in Hawaii, so I’m planning to visit there soon to see my nieces and nephews who I haven’t seen in about two years."

Q. What are your favorite WNBA cities to visit?
Whitmore: "I like to visit the two main cities that I’ve played in, New York and L.A., just there’s stuff to do, LA has the great weather, New York has I guess the hustle and bustle, and there’s always something to do."

Q. What is the best WNBA city to go out shopping
Whitmore: "New York has more variety, but I also think Seattle has a nice shopping district.".

Q. What is the best WNBA city to dine out?
Whitmore: "New York, it’s just the variety of restaurants that they have and the variety of food and culture, so you get to experience just about anything you want."

Q. What are the best places to shop and dine out in your city - neighborhoods, specifically?
Whitmore: "Well we have that mall downtown, we have a variety of stuff to choose from, a couple of malls, we have one mall in particular, that’s shall we say, bourgeoisie, and I don’t think I make enough money to afford to shop their."

Q. Cars?
Whitmore: "Mainly cars period, racing, fixing them, restorations, whatever, actually I did get an opportunity to visit the Indianapolis 500, I didn’t get to go to the race because we had practice, but I got to see the cars. I wanted to meet Danica Patrick, but I heard she isn’t really a big sports fan, she’s mainly into racing, but I wish her all the best because she’s a woman in a man’s world."
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