Follow us on Facebook! Here are some additional pictures of our Wild Florida visit. Our guide Will revs up the engines! A flock of birds takes flight as we approach. Large cypress tree up Dead Man’s Creek A haunting wilderness – the swamps of the upper Everglades – Dead Man’s Creek at Cypress Lake A giant…
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Kennedy Space Center: The Space Shuttle Atlantis
Follow us on Facebook! This is the second of two parts on the Kennedy Space Center. Part 1 looked at the bus tour which takes you to the Apollo-Saturn V Center. Today we continue with a tour of the Visitor Complex. The handy map of the Visitor Complex at the Kennedy Space Center notes some twenty attractions and lists…
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Photo Gallery: The Apollo Moon Missions
Follow us on Facebook! Here are some more pictures from the first half of our tour of the Kennedy Space Center. The giant doors on the Vehicle Assembly Building. It is the largest one story building in the world. The Crawler-Transporter hauls ass at an impressive one mile per hour. It consumes 296 liters of fuel…
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Kennedy Space Center: The Apollo Moon Missions
Follow us on Facebook! While the closest attractions to Orlando are Disney World and Universal Studios, the most interesting attractions we visited were an hour’s drive away. One of them was the Kennedy Space Center. In fact, it was the main reason I wanted to visit Orlando. So on a sunny Sunday afternoon we headed…
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Photo Gallery: The Kinsol Trestle
Follow us on Facebook! Here are some additional photos of the Kinsol Trestle. The Kinsol Trestle spans a salmon spawning river in rural Vancouver Island. Looking down at the river below from the top of the bridge The Koksilah River The Kinsol Trestle The trestle is a truly massive structure, one of the largest trestles in…
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The Historic Kinsol Trestle
Follow us on Facebook! If you’re a railroad buff and visiting Vancouver Island, you might want to check out the historic Kinsol Trestle. It is a restored railroad trestle on the old abandoned CN Rail line and now part of the Trans Canada Trail. The trestle is truly a marvel to see. The largest railroad trestle in…
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Photo Gallery: The Dali Museum
Follow us on Facebook! Here are some additional photos from our visit to the Dali Museum in 2009. The town square at Figueres, across the street from the railroad station. Yes, that’s a Spanish-English Dictionary Janis is holding. Many tents were set up as artisans and merchants displayed their wares for the May Day celebrations. The…
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Hello Dali!
Follow us on Facebook! “I want my museum to be like a single block, a labyrinth, a great surrealist object. It will be a totally theatrical museum. The people who come to see it will leave with the sensation of having had a theatrical dream.” – Salvador Dali Figueres is the birthplace of noted surrealist painter…
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Gaudi’s Masterpiece: The Church of the Sagrada Familia
Follow us on Facebook! Our 2009 trans-Atlantic cruise ended in Barcelona. We stayed three extra days there before flying back to Canada and covered a lot of ground in those three days. Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain and the capital of Catalonia. Its history goes back to Roman times. Situated on the Mediterranean…
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Photo Gallery: The Sagrada Familia
Follow us on Facebook! We took about a hundred photos at the Sagrada Familia. Here are some of them. The Nativity Facade with its four towers We were able to go up to the walkway between the two central towers. A crowd admires the sculptures on the Nativity Facade. Construction continues on the church which was…
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