Walt Disney World – Disney’s Animal Kingdom Our first full day at Walt Disney World today … started fairly early, jumped in the car and drove around to the Animal Kingdom. The first thing we noticed once we arrived was the carpark. It was huge. I mean huge. So huge, it took several minutes to … [Read More »]

Miami to Orlando (via Tampa) Got up relatively early this morning, finished packing the bags, checked out of the Hyatt Regency Miami, and hit the road to Orlando. Actually, we were not quite heading to Orlando, but to the Walt Disney World Resort area, a few dozen miles to the west of Orlando. Rather than … [Read More »]

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 »]