Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

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Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby Hagar » Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:08 am

Back in 1996 my brother & I planned our grand adventure. He wanted to visit two friends in the US of A, one in North Carolina & the other in NYC. I needed a break & asked if he wanted some company. He jumped at the idea & we decided to combine this with a fortnight's holiday. (For our US viewers - a fortnight is two weeks. Don't ask why cos I don't know. ???)
The idea was to fly to Florida & stay there for a few days to soak up the sun & do a few things we'd never done on previous visits. We then planned on driving up the Eastern seaboard of the USA, diverting inland to Greensboro, NC, to visit one of his friends. Then on via Washington DC & NYC before flying home from there. This was a tad ambitious as both of us tend to get lost easily. ??? This does have the advantage of making things interesting. Here's a few memories of our grand mystery tour. :D

This is our car. A big old gas-guzzling Oldsmobile. Perfect for the trip. We had to pay a little extra to take it out of the state.
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As we knew exactly what we wanted to see we decided to do Disney all in one day. By a bit of luck we purchased cut-price tickets for all the attractions from the nice lady in the booth across the road from our hotel. They looked a bit dodgy but much to our surprise they worked with no problems. ;)
This is one of the attractions I wanted to try. I had to bully my brother into accompanying me as he's not quite so adventurous as me. I'm not sure he enjoyed the experience.
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Here's the big ball in the Epcot Center.
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We both wanted a trip on an air-boat, Never done that before so ......
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That's my brother - he's the slim one with our driver or pilot whatever they call him. ;)

The next day we set out for Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Flight. Very interesting. It had recently been opened & there's much more there now.
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All too soon our 4 days was up so we set out for Savannah, Georgia where we planned on spending the night. We called into Daytona on the way. This is the famous Daytona Beach.
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To be continued .................
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby C » Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:13 am

Nice Doug, look forwrd to part 2... :)
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby Fly2e » Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:36 am

Great Stuff Doug! Interesting to see shots of the US from somebody who does no live here.

Let's see all of them!  ;D

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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby Rifleman » Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:46 am

Hey ! >:(....whats wrong with an Olds Cutlass Ciera ?..... ;)  ;D

.........can you tell, I owned one ?   ::)

.......looks like a great time was had by the post so far..........bring on more !  ;D   ;D   ;D
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby ATI_7500 » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:08 pm

Cars on the beach?????
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby flyboy 28 » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:11 pm

Cars on the beach?????


New to this whole concept of driving? ::)
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby Hagar » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:25 pm

Thanks for the comments chaps. It was Sarah's topic on holidays in the US that gave me the idea. Thought I'd show what's possible without going on one of those dreadful package tours. We planned all this out in one evening with the aid of an old Rand McNally map of the US. After that it was a matter of chance. It all worked out splendidly & was probably the best holiday I've ever had. ;)

Cars on the beach?????

This is Daytona Beach. You can drive from one end to the other but I don't advise it as the car gets full up with fine sand. This is where the speed records were broken in the old days.
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby Ben_M_K » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:33 pm

Sweet! Looks like you had a sweet time!! I'd really like to come visit your neck of the woods someday Doug! :)
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby Craig. » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:34 pm

Nice shots Doug. If you want cars on the beach come to weston super-mare. Nothing but a big car park:) Pleanty of beach at least. I really need to visit Florida. Its definatly a beautiful looking place, i guess when i do get to college i will take a weekend driving trip down there.
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby ozzy72 » Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:17 pm

Epcot, proud owners of the worlds biggest silver golf ball ;D Nice photos Doug ;)
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby beaky » Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:13 pm

How 'bout that- you've done two things in the USA that I've never done.
-airboat
-Fantasy of Flight
More! More? OK...
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby Hagar » Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:05 am

[quote]Hey ! >:(....whats wrong with an Olds Cutlass Ciera ?..... ;)
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Re: Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure

Postby ATI_7500 » Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:31 am

New to this whole concept of driving? ::)


The last thing you should park on a beach is a car.
Lazy Americans... ::)
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