Grumpy's tours - or my grand adventure
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:08 amBack 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. 
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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. 
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.
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.
Here's the big ball in the Epcot Center.
We both wanted a trip on an air-boat, Never done that before so ......
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.
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.
To be continued .................
) 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. 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.
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.
Here's the big ball in the Epcot Center.
We both wanted a trip on an air-boat, Never done that before so ......
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.
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.
To be continued .................
....whats wrong with an Olds Cutlass Ciera ?..... 
