Florida, Tampa Bay Area, Pinellas County, St. Pete/Clearwater/Palm Harbor-- Hiking the Pinellas Trail?

I'm looking for people who have done this without driving from section to section... walking the entire trail over the span of a week or so.

My family & I were thinking of a little "stay-cation" hiking trip. We live near the St. Pete end of the trail & were thinking it might be cool to backpack the entire trail from Tarpon Springs. Only planning on walking 5-6 miles per day, maybe stopping at some parks & museums along the way

We would stop of course in the evening for lodgings... we'd actually rather just pop a pup tent & rough it, inner-city camping lol, but there are only a couple of places we can do that (Sherwood Forest in Palm Harbor & KOA in Bay Pines, plus we have a friend that lives in Gulfport & we can probably pop a tent in their fenced-in yard if we wanted for a night.

Can't find anywhere to camp near the trail in Clearwater so we would have to probably do a small motel.

I'm looking for people who've actually done it. I find plenty of info on biking the whole trail, and plenty on going over just a part of it, but I can't seem to find people-- families in particular-- who've walked the whole trail so I can get their input.

Thanks...