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Last week in 2014 - Exploring Florida

This year around Christ's birthday we decided to visit the opposite coast.   Being California residents it is a hard sell but we wanted to enjoy it with our daughter who had never been to the Sunshine state.

So we spent a week doing the usual - cover as much terrain on land or water - and soak it in along with the abundant sun.  So we began a loop around the state by starting out at the eastern shore in Fort Lauderdale just north of Miami.   It is not as busy as Miami in terms of the population or the variety of food or sand under your feet.   But offers some beachfront cruising opportunities to gawk at spendy (an informal term I use to describe items that are priced purely based on intangible worth which is mostly anything that is not-functional) items and people.

Sampled some very interesting chewy biscotti and a sort of French sounding pastry that was quite alright.  Food in any shape and form to me is not spendy - it is just nutrition in a bouquet of flavors and textures.  I say so and so it must be right.

Next day we decided to drive up north and visit the Orlando metro area.   About an hour east of the city is Cape Canaveral - home of NASA's Kennedy Space center and the only place where men (Amerians) have left this planet to roam on an extra terrestrial body aka the Moon.  It is odd that other planets have named moons while the Earth just has a Moon - kinda like calling your dog by yelling 'DOG'.  But that is okay - we were interested in refreshing some of what I had learned back in the day about achieving terminal velocity to escape the planet's pull.

While I am nowhere close to achieving it anytime soon - it was a brief respite to sit in a simulator and feel like I had left other mortals behind.  Rides were fun as was the viewing of the Space Shuttle Atlantis.  It is very big and by all means very SPENDY.

While the shuttle program as we knew it has been shut down being Spendy and all - there are private companies vying to take a slice of the space travel business (outer space).

More insights and deep thoughts from Florida in another follow up blog..including a visit to Disney's Epcot center.
STS 135 Atlantis was the last mission for this reusable aircraft - now on display at the KSC near Orlando FL
 

Couple of Herons trying to be Heroes (notice one on either side of the culvert)
 
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  1. RajendraJanuary 2, 2015 at 6:07 AM

    California is majority Mexican and Florida, majority Cuban.

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  2. Diamond HeadJanuary 2, 2015 at 8:15 AM

    And it has been fascinating for an Indian American to discover both....lol...while the Spaniards discovered and conquered either coast the American wars like many later annexed both to the Union.

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