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…
Read MorePhoto 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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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…
Read MorePhoto 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…
Read MoreWhere Kangaroos Come Alive
Follow us on Facebook! The other day at family dinner we were talking about the upcoming visit of my wife’s sister and brother and his wife. We were discussing all the places in Western Australia we planned to take them – Margaret River, Rottnest Island, Fremantle, and the Caversham Wildlife Park to see kangaroos. “Oh,” piped…
Read MorePhoto Gallery: Temple of 10,000 Buddhas, Penang, Malaysia
Follow us on Facebook! Here are some additional photos of the Kek Lok Si Temple in Penang. The Kek Lok Si Temple with its many buildings and structures. The turtle pond. Every Buddhist temple has a turtle pond. People donate turtles to the temple to bless themselves with long life. Unfortunately, many of these ponds are…
Read MoreSandsurfing in Lancelin
129 kilometers north of Perth lies the seaside town of Lancelin (about an hour and a half drive). It’s a sleepy little town of 600 whose population swells to 2500 in the summer months (December, January and February in Australia). We took a day trip out from our daughter’s place in Ocean Reef in early January….
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