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27 April 2007
Today we visit Kennedy Space Centre before continuing to Daytona Beach. The drive from Kissimmee to Kennedy took less than an hour. The Kennedy Space Centre is NASA’s primary launch station for space flight. Some exhibits were accessible by foot from the entrance area but three by bus. Overall, we got to see some of […]
26 April 2007
We decided to revisit Celebration today and take some photos. It’s a lovely place, even though it is rather contrived. Text continues after this gallery. From here, we drove to north Orlando, to Winter Park. This is a resort community founded in the 1880s. The homes here were very nice as well but […]
25 April 2007
Above: Nice home in Celebration. Visiting Celebration Flying east, I have trouble waking in the morning. This time it was a little more complicated. I woke at 0230 and couldn’t sleep till 0530. And when I did, I woke up around 1030. We had a light breakfast and went out at 1200 for our 1230 […]
24 April 2007
Yesterday Yesterday was a “spare” day which we kinda “filled-in”. As we were flying on standby from Auckland to Los Angeles, it’s best to have a spare day before continuing on to Florida. So, we filled in the day with seeing crew friends that were overnighting here and eating at Kim’s favourite places. We also […]
22 April 2007
We landed at Los Angeles in the early afternoon. Because Air New Zealand uses Terminal 2, the manouvering and parking for the large jet was tight, so it is normal to have the aircraft towed to its final position. But it seemed strange that the aircraft was being towed with its engine roaring. Once we […]
26 May 2005
Mini sightseeing I woke around 0600 and managed to get ourselves downstairs for breakfast at 0700. Kim organised a rental car by phone with Lucky Cars located at the Howard Johnson Hotel. They have some very beaten up cars that wouldn’t be legal in some countries. Kim s is a regular customer of theirs on […]
29 April 2004
We checked out after breakfast. A voucher was required for payment to the Daytona Beach hotel but we hadn’t received it. But the lady at reception said she would sort it out. It was nearly 4h driving south to Fort Lauderdale. We stopped for fuel and a Subway lunch in the city of Jupiter about […]
25 October 2003
Today is our second (of two) full day in Los Angeles. Yesterday, we got a rental car and went to some of the places that Kim likes. He’s here once or twice a month as crew and knows the various places well. We did a little bit of shopping and eating. But being carless today, […]