Hello to all of our faithful followers. We traveled to Daytona Beach and had a wonderful visit with our friends.We made the river trip down to the Gulf of Mexico with them. We traveled off and on with these two couples from the first of September 2010 to December 2010. It was such fun to catch up with both of them. We did have a few glitches along the way. We were late for one of the dates we had set up because there just happened to be an event in Daytona that you have heard about. It is called "bike week". There were about 200,000 visitors to the city and many of them were on their Harley motorcycles. Well needless to say it does make for a lot of interesting folks and the traffic can be a hassle. Of course, we had no camera on us at the time, so we just have our memories. Here are the folks we got to get together with.
This is Woody and Judy Post from Rockland, Maine.
This is Larry and Dorothy Rand from Harbor Heights, Florida.
We hated to part company with all of these great people, but we have built lifelong friendships with all of them and know that we will be seeing them again. Each of these couples has already completed the Great Loop. They totally understood that we had to take off and push North back to Michigan.
This boat was just north of Daytona. It may have suffered from a high tide or it may be the result of a hurricane, either of which is never good.
We traveled a long day, but were able to make it to St. Augustine. This city was settled in the 1500's and has so much history. We did our own walking tour through the city. These are some of the sites that we thought were interesting.
These are of one of several churches in the downtown area.
These next photos are an important part of the history.
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This is one of several clock towers in the city.
These are several pics of the fort that is located at the harbor and also a part of the downtown.
We also walked through the old hotel which was built by Henry Flagler (he also built a railroad here in Florida) It was very extravagant and was designed like much of Europe. The stain glass and elaborate wood carvings were especially pretty. We could only see a portion of the hotel as it is now Flagler College. I can not imagine attending school in such an interesting historical building.
The many stained glass windows are all Tiffany Glass.
There is also a famous bridge called the bridge of lions. These statues are located by the bridge and here is the bridge itself.
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