Follow us on Facebook! Here are some more pictures from our last day in Barcelona. Riding the Hop On Hop Off bus A neat old building we passed on the tour. But I don’t know what the building is. If you know, please let me know. Another close-up view of Casa Mila – La Pedrera Cable…
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Follow us on Facebook! After visiting the Parc Güell, the four of us split paths with the wives opting for shopping and Chris and I deciding to take the Hop On Hop Off and get an overview of the city before meeting the girls later to wander up La Rambla. The Barcelona Bus Turistic has three different routes…
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Follow us on Facebook! Here are some additional photos of our visit to Parc Güell. From the metro station we took some narrow side streets to the park, including this very steep one. There is a large natural park behind the terrace. Gaudi wanted to preserve a lot of wilderness in the original plans for Güell’s ambitious…
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Follow us on Facebook! On our last full day in Barcelona we wanted to see everything we had missed so far. A tall order. On our first day we had explored the fabulous Sagrada Familia. On our second day we took a side trip to Figueres to check out the Dali Museum. So we started our third day…
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Follow us on Facebook! Here are some additional pictures of our Wild Florida visit. Follow us on Facebook!
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Alligators! When you think of Florida wilderness, you think alligators. Florida is famous for its Everglades, a vast tract of wetland at the southern tip of the state. It is an area heavily populated with alligators. But the whole state is dotted with lakes and swamps and you can find alligators in all 67 counties. There…
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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…
Read MoreKennedy 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…
Read MoreKennedy 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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