Summer Part III - July and August

This is Summer Part III, where we show you what we have been up to for the second half of the summer.


At the beginning of July, we went to the Duluth Air Show.

A Mig 17

The prop of a Navy plane

An F-15

The Red Baron Squadron - yes, the pizza guys really do fly! Too bad they don't deliver

The USAF Thunderbirds

In mid July, we met up with Pat's parents for a trip to the Keweenaw & western U.P.

No trip to the Keweenaw is complete without a trip up Brockway Mountain

or Great Sand Bay

The next three photos are of a beautiful sunset from an Ontonagon beach

On the way home, we stopped at Lake Gogebic

Back to Jay Cooke for a bike ride to a great view

The St. Louis River valley

A nice birch tree along the way

A few weeks later it was back to the UP - we can't stay away!

The Misery River - the least miserable river we know!

Misery Bay beach with just the right number of other visitors

Look what the waves brought in!

At the end of August, Sara's Dad came to visit

We had to take him to the ususal sights including Gooseberry Falls (a little dry this time of year)

Split Rock light - never a bad view here

and of course over to Jay Cooke

Sara and her dad on the swinging bridge

then to Wisconsin to see Big Manitou falls

A great view and the end to a fun visit

Summer Part II - Florida!

For 4th of July weekend we went down to Florida to visit friends Brett & Lyn who live in the Daytona Beach area.

Of course you can't go to Daytona without going to a race! Lucky for us, we were able to go to the Pepsi 400!

The Goodyear Blimp

Air Force 2 at the Daytona Beach Airport right next to the track

A beautiful evening for a race

Dick Cheney says a few words before the race

No race could start without the F-16 fly by

The main grandstand with the Goodyear blimp

The pace car

Here comes the field in Turn 2

The field in Turn 2 again

A wreck on the Superstretch

A happy fan

Tony Stewart wins the race

Fireworks round out a great evening

The next day we went back to Daytona USA to the museum

The track is actually banked a little more than it looks on TV

One of Dale Earhardt's cars

Jimmie Johnson's car with which he won the '06 Daytona 500

The Nextel Cup

Next we were on to the historic St. Augustine

Castillo de San Marcos - one of the oldest forts in the U.S.

Canon balls away!

One of the fort towers

The fort walls & the ocean

An ornate canon

A view of the harbor from the fort

A church tower in old town St. Augustine

An ornate building

A cute street

No cute coastal town would be complete without a lighthouse!

The entrance to the tower

The 'few' stairs leading to the top of the tower

The keepers quarters

The view from the top

A peek at the 4th order Fresnel lens

Brett & Lyn

Later we went to Daytona Beach

A relatively calm evening

The sun sets on a great trip