Florida after the Shuttle Launch

I see I never posted about our Florida trip back in July, as I promised, so here goes:

After seeing the launch Friday morning, we went for seafood by the bay, and then we headed north on the coast route, Hwy A1A.

We stayed in a cute beachside condo in Daytona Beach that night, where Dennis and Wendy made us drive on the beach. To Californians, that's an odd, even sacrilegious, thing to do. But we did do it and it was fun.


We also climbed the stairs to the top of Ponce Inlet lighthouse, and ate more seafood.

Further north, we stopped at Fort Matanzas, an old Spanish fort near St Augustine, which is a National Monument. We rode the boat out to the fort and took a quick tour just before a thunderstorm hit. The park rangers set off the cannon just in time; any later and the lightning would have been too close to safely set off explosives.


We did a swing through historic St. Augustine and kept going.

The one time we decided to stop at the beach to get a swim, another storm blew in and thunder sent us running back to the car.

Chuck and I remembered taking a tiny river ferry many years ago, from Jacksonville to Amelia Island. We had some trouble finding it, but we eventually did, and we crossed the river at dusk. More rain pelted us as we found a motel Saturday night, and as we ran across the street for another seafood dinner.

Sunday we headed for Savannah at Wendy's request. We all enjoyed roaming the streets, admiring the architecture, and sweating profusely in the humidity.

Back to Atlanta Sunday night.