Sunday, September 03, 2006

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

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