2014 Vacation - Day 6

Eureka! 

 

Daytona Beach!

 

The Fountain of Youth!

 

No.  Not.  It is not the Fountain of Youth . . . but it is that exciting for us!  Himself had not been to Florida before and I hadn't been since a child.  We are enjoying this vacation.  Five days of constant travel in a car was beginning to take it's toll.  That and irregular eating times.  You girls know how that is : )  We were glad to get here.  

 

We left Panama City this morning about 8 am.  Himself was in no hurry but I said "I'm Ready!" so we loaded up and started East.  We drove pretty continually all day.  We didn't stop to sight see really, anywhere.  We drove, we munched, we took in all the green.  Mid Florida is actually rural and farm like.  We left the tourist area of Florida, the coast, the Gulf of Mexico with hotels and businesses standing shoulder-to-shoulder and cars and people every where and drove almost 300 miles through trees and National Forest and pines and cows and parks and not so many people.  Then we reached the coast and once again found large hotels, city streets, restaurants galore and traffic and tourism. 

 

With the aid of the GPS, our maps and the laptop computer, we cruised right into Daytona Beach, got groceries, rode the elevator up to the 14th floor beach-front 2-bedroom modern condo.  Rode down the elevator.  Rode up the elevator.  Rode down . . . lol.  Okay, so we basically have moved in here . . . will it take 30 days for authorities to evict us?  We are hoping so! 

 

 

 



 

 

This photo represents mid American.  Working folks. 

Right here in the middle of Florida.

 

 

These flowers are Dianthus . . .gone wild.

They seem to have naturalized in the ditches of mid-Florida.

The travel today was pretty and fragrant. 

 

Florida

 

 

 

 

Florida bog or swamp.

 

Daytona Beach from the 14th floor of Wyndham. 

 

three of the four swimming pools and there are 3 hot tubs.

 

Himself on Bikini Watch

He volunteered : )