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Our trip to Florida last week was sick, both literally and figuratively. It was figuratively sick in that it was a great time. It was literally sick in that Jen and I both came home with head colds. No Covid this time. We did that on a Florida trip back in September 2023. This time it is just a persistent, annoying, bad cold.

That’s two Disney World trips in a row where we were sick on the drive home. Well, last time I got sick on the day we got home. I was okay for the rest of the drive. Jen was really sick the whole way home.

I have to pause to acknowledge the fact that a Red Tail Hawk just attacked something at our bird feeder. I don’t think it got anything, but it swooped out of the sky and landed on our little patio. I saw it there for a second before it bolted into the woods. Hawks are freaking cool.

Okay, back to the subject at hand. Travel. Now that we are home from Florida it is time to tentatively plan not only the next vacation, but the next two vacations.

Tentatively, we’re looking at Southern California in the fall. Maybe September. If we do it, we will split the time between San Diego and Disneyland in Anaheim. After that it will be Orlando again at some time around Jen’s birthday. She has a milestone birthday in 2025 so we are going to want to do something epic. We’ll see if the kids can join us for this one. Maybe Jen’s mother and step father too. It’s all hypothetical at this point. For us though, half the fun of a big vacation is planning the big vacation. We’re well into that process already.

In closing, here are a few pics from our drive down to Florida. We stopped at Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine, FL and just spent a few minutes wandering around the fort and the neighborhood around it.

That’s way more pictures than I was planning to use for this post. It doesn’t include any of the film shots either. I still need to send those out for developing. Woah!

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/04/sick-travel/

#CastilloDeSanMarcos #florida #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #stAugustine #theGreat2024FloridaRoadTrip #Travel #z5

Our trip to Florida last week was sick, both literally and figuratively. It was figuratively sick in that it was a great time. It was literally sick in that Jen and I both came home with head colds. No Covid this time. We did that on a Florida trip back in September 2023. This time it is just a persistent, annoying, bad cold.

That’s two Disney World trips in a row where we were sick on the drive home. Well, last time I got sick on the day we got home. I was okay for the rest of the drive. Jen was really sick the whole way home.

I have to pause to acknowledge the fact that a Red Tail Hawk just attacked something at our bird feeder. I don’t think it got anything, but it swooped out of the sky and landed on our little patio. I saw it there for a second before it bolted into the woods. Hawks are freaking cool.

Okay, back to the subject at hand. Travel. Now that we are home from Florida it is time to tentatively plan not only the next vacation, but the next two vacations.

Tentatively, we’re looking at Southern California in the fall. Maybe September. If we do it, we will split the time between San Diego and Disneyland in Anaheim. After that it will be Orlando again at some time around Jen’s birthday. She has a milestone birthday in 2025 so we are going to want to do something epic. We’ll see if the kids can join us for this one. Maybe Jen’s mother and step father too. It’s all hypothetical at this point. For us though, half the fun of a big vacation is planning the big vacation. We’re well into that process already.

In closing, here are a few pics from our drive down to Florida. We stopped at Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine, FL and just spent a few minutes wandering around the fort and the neighborhood around it.

That’s way more pictures than I was planning to use for this post. It doesn’t include any of the film shots either. I still need to send those out for developing. Woah!

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/04/sick-travel/

#CastilloDeSanMarcos #florida #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #stAugustine #theGreat2024FloridaRoadTrip #Travel #z5

Our trip to Florida last week was sick, both literally and figuratively. It was figuratively sick in that it was a great time. It was literally sick in that Jen and I both came home with head colds. No Covid this time. We did that on a Florida trip back in September 2023. This time it is just a persistent, annoying, bad cold.

That’s two Disney World trips in a row where we were sick on the drive home. Well, last time I got sick on the day we got home. I was okay for the rest of the drive. Jen was really sick the whole way home.

I have to pause to acknowledge the fact that a Red Tail Hawk just attacked something at our bird feeder. I don’t think it got anything, but it swooped out of the sky and landed on our little patio. I saw it there for a second before it bolted into the woods. Hawks are freaking cool.

Okay, back to the subject at hand. Travel. Now that we are home from Florida it is time to tentatively plan not only the next vacation, but the next two vacations.

Tentatively, we’re looking at Southern California in the fall. Maybe September. If we do it, we will split the time between San Diego and Disneyland in Anaheim. After that it will be Orlando again at some time around Jen’s birthday. She has a milestone birthday in 2025 so we are going to want to do something epic. We’ll see if the kids can join us for this one. Maybe Jen’s mother and step father too. It’s all hypothetical at this point. For us though, half the fun of a big vacation is planning the big vacation. We’re well into that process already.

In closing, here are a few pics from our drive down to Florida. We stopped at Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine, FL and just spent a few minutes wandering around the fort and the neighborhood around it.

That’s way more pictures than I was planning to use for this post. It doesn’t include any of the film shots either. I still need to send those out for developing. Woah!

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/04/sick-travel/

#CastilloDeSanMarcos #florida #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #stAugustine #theGreat2024FloridaRoadTrip #Travel #z5

Our trip to Florida last week was sick, both literally and figuratively. It was figuratively sick in that it was a great time. It was literally sick in that Jen and I both came home with head colds. No Covid this time. We did that on a Florida trip back in September 2023. This time it is just a persistent, annoying, bad cold.

That’s two Disney World trips in a row where we were sick on the drive home. Well, last time I got sick on the day we got home. I was okay for the rest of the drive. Jen was really sick the whole way home.

I have to pause to acknowledge the fact that a Red Tail Hawk just attacked something at our bird feeder. I don’t think it got anything, but it swooped out of the sky and landed on our little patio. I saw it there for a second before it bolted into the woods. Hawks are freaking cool.

Okay, back to the subject at hand. Travel. Now that we are home from Florida it is time to tentatively plan not only the next vacation, but the next two vacations.

Tentatively, we’re looking at Southern California in the fall. Maybe September. If we do it, we will split the time between San Diego and Disneyland in Anaheim. After that it will be Orlando again at some time around Jen’s birthday. She has a milestone birthday in 2025 so we are going to want to do something epic. We’ll see if the kids can join us for this one. Maybe Jen’s mother and step father too. It’s all hypothetical at this point. For us though, half the fun of a big vacation is planning the big vacation. We’re well into that process already.

In closing, here are a few pics from our drive down to Florida. We stopped at Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine, FL and just spent a few minutes wandering around the fort and the neighborhood around it.

That’s way more pictures than I was planning to use for this post. It doesn’t include any of the film shots either. I still need to send those out for developing. Woah!

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/04/sick-travel/

#CastilloDeSanMarcos #florida #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #stAugustine #theGreat2024FloridaRoadTrip #Travel #z5

Our trip to Florida last week was sick, both literally and figuratively. It was figuratively sick in that it was a great time. It was literally sick in that Jen and I both came home with head colds. No Covid this time. We did that on a Florida trip back in September 2023. This time it is just a persistent, annoying, bad cold.

That’s two Disney World trips in a row where we were sick on the drive home. Well, last time I got sick on the day we got home. I was okay for the rest of the drive. Jen was really sick the whole way home.

I have to pause to acknowledge the fact that a Red Tail Hawk just attacked something at our bird feeder. I don’t think it got anything, but it swooped out of the sky and landed on our little patio. I saw it there for a second before it bolted into the woods. Hawks are freaking cool.

Okay, back to the subject at hand. Travel. Now that we are home from Florida it is time to tentatively plan not only the next vacation, but the next two vacations.

Tentatively, we’re looking at Southern California in the fall. Maybe September. If we do it, we will split the time between San Diego and Disneyland in Anaheim. After that it will be Orlando again at some time around Jen’s birthday. She has a milestone birthday in 2025 so we are going to want to do something epic. We’ll see if the kids can join us for this one. Maybe Jen’s mother and step father too. It’s all hypothetical at this point. For us though, half the fun of a big vacation is planning the big vacation. We’re well into that process already.

In closing, here are a few pics from our drive down to Florida. We stopped at Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine, FL and just spent a few minutes wandering around the fort and the neighborhood around it.

That’s way more pictures than I was planning to use for this post. It doesn’t include any of the film shots either. I still need to send those out for developing. Woah!

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/04/sick-travel/

#CastilloDeSanMarcos #florida #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #stAugustine #theGreat2024FloridaRoadTrip #Travel #z5

The Spanish colonists of #Florida needed protection from attacks by hostile nations during war and pirate attacks. Older, wooden forts had failed, so the #Castillo de San Marcos was constructed out of #coquina #stone quarried from Anastasia Island.
This #photograph shows one of the #turrets on the #fort’s corners.

Get a print of this image, or other items, at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/turret-of-the-castillo-de-san-marcos-heron-and-fox.html

#CastilloDeSanMarcos, #StAugustine, #ArchitecturalPhotography, #History,

The Spanish colonists of #Florida needed protection from attacks by hostile nations during war and pirate attacks. Older, wooden forts had failed, so the #Castillo de San Marcos was constructed out of #coquina #stone quarried from Anastasia Island.
This #photograph shows one of the #turrets on the #fort’s corners.

Get a print of this image, or other items, at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/turret-of-the-castillo-de-san-marcos-heron-and-fox.html

#CastilloDeSanMarcos, #StAugustine, #ArchitecturalPhotography, #History,

The Spanish colonists of #Florida needed protection from attacks by hostile nations during war and pirate attacks. Older, wooden forts had failed, so the #Castillo de San Marcos was constructed out of #coquina #stone quarried from Anastasia Island.
This #photograph shows one of the #turrets on the #fort’s corners.

Get a print of this image, or other items, at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/turret-of-the-castillo-de-san-marcos-heron-and-fox.html

#CastilloDeSanMarcos, #StAugustine, #ArchitecturalPhotography, #History,

The Spanish colonists of #Florida needed protection from attacks by hostile nations during war and pirate attacks. Older, wooden forts had failed, so the #Castillo de San Marcos was constructed out of #coquina #stone quarried from Anastasia Island.
This #photograph shows one of the #turrets on the #fort’s corners.

Get a print of this image, or other items, at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/turret-of-the-castillo-de-san-marcos-heron-and-fox.html

#CastilloDeSanMarcos, #StAugustine, #ArchitecturalPhotography, #History,

The #Castillo de San Marcos (#Castle of St Mark) was originally built by the #Spanish when #Florida was their colony.
The Castillo was built of local #coquina #stone, which made the wall much more resistant to cannon fire than other forts of the day, as the coquina was just a cement of sand and shells and gives in on impact with something like a cannonball, preventing wider damage.
The #fort never fell in battle, but flew under the flags of 5 governments.
#CastilloDeSanMarcos, #StAugustine, #StoneWall, #PalmTree, #FloridaHistory, #Photography, #Photo
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/side-of-castillo-de-san-marcos-heron-and-fox.html

The #Castillo de San Marcos (#Castle of St Mark) was originally built by the #Spanish when #Florida was their colony.
The Castillo was built of local #coquina #stone, which made the wall much more resistant to cannon fire than other forts of the day, as the coquina was just a cement of sand and shells and gives in on impact with something like a cannonball, preventing wider damage.
The #fort never fell in battle, but flew under the flags of 5 governments.
#CastilloDeSanMarcos, #StAugustine, #StoneWall, #PalmTree, #FloridaHistory, #Photography, #Photo
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/side-of-castillo-de-san-marcos-heron-and-fox.html

The #Castillo de San Marcos (#Castle of St Mark) was originally built by the #Spanish when #Florida was their colony.
The Castillo was built of local #coquina #stone, which made the wall much more resistant to cannon fire than other forts of the day, as the coquina was just a cement of sand and shells and gives in on impact with something like a cannonball, preventing wider damage.
The #fort never fell in battle, but flew under the flags of 5 governments.
#CastilloDeSanMarcos, #StAugustine, #StoneWall, #PalmTree, #FloridaHistory, #Photography, #Photo
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/side-of-castillo-de-san-marcos-heron-and-fox.html

The #Castillo de San Marcos (#Castle of St Mark) was originally built by the #Spanish when #Florida was their colony.
The Castillo was built of local #coquina #stone, which made the wall much more resistant to cannon fire than other forts of the day, as the coquina was just a cement of sand and shells and gives in on impact with something like a cannonball, preventing wider damage.
The #fort never fell in battle, but flew under the flags of 5 governments.
#CastilloDeSanMarcos, #StAugustine, #StoneWall, #PalmTree, #FloridaHistory, #Photography, #Photo
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/side-of-castillo-de-san-marcos-heron-and-fox.html

The #Castillo de San Marcos (#Castle of St Mark) was originally built by the #Spanish when #Florida was their colony.
The Castillo was built of local #coquina #stone, which made the wall much more resistant to cannon fire than other forts of the day, as the coquina was just a cement of sand and shells and gives in on impact with something like a cannonball, preventing wider damage.
The #fort never fell in battle, but flew under the flags of 5 governments.
#CastilloDeSanMarcos, #StAugustine, #StoneWall, #PalmTree, #FloridaHistory, #Photography, #Photo
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/side-of-castillo-de-san-marcos-heron-and-fox.html