Archives for 2005

Wash Day Didn’t do much today … slept in, got up after midday, had some breakfast (?), then jumped in the car to find somewhere to get our photos processed. Found a place quite close by that did genuine Kodak PictureCDs (many other places these days that claim to do PictureCD actually do their own … [Read More »]

Florida Keys We spent the day today driving along the Florida Keys – a beautiful archipelago of 40 islands that stretches south from the tip of Florida, dividing the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Connecting many of the islands is the 126 mile Overseas Highway, which includes 42 bridges – of which the … [Read More »]

Everglades National Park We got up reasonably early today, jumped in the car, and headed out along the SR-41 to the Shark Valley Visitor Center at the northern end of the Everglades National Park. Despite the name, there were no sharks there – the name for the area comes from the “Shark River Slough”, part … [Read More »]

Miami and Miami Beach We slept in. I think it was 10:30am by the time I got up, and it was after 11:30am by the time Leanne crawled out of bed. We blame the 3 hour time difference between Miami and Los Angeles. Eventually we got down to the lobby and had a muffin, bagel … [Read More »]

LAX – FLL, Ft. Lauderdale to Miami The day started very early for us today, up at 4am, finish packing and out the door soon after 5am, drive around to the Hertz office, drop off the car, negotiate with the manager a US$200 discount on our car rental for nearly killing us during the “incident … [Read More »]