Manhattan shows in best wheather on departure from Newark

Statue of Liberty

Verrazano Narrows Bridge

Approaching Atlanta

Approaching Orlando

Orlando greats with crazy things

The birth place of American space travel. Wonderful park. We needed a complete day from 9 in the morning to 7 in the evening. There are so many things to see. Most things are history but there are active parts as well. Unfortunately no "real" Space Shuttle was there.

NASA logo at the entrance

In Rocket Garden you find old rockets from Mercury, Gemini, and Saturn/Apollo era including the capsules.

View over Cape Canaveral, an upstream island where the launch facilities for unmanned flights are located

Launch Complex 39 (LC39) contains the two Space Shuttle launch pads 39a and 39b. The photograph shows launch pad 39a

Vehicle Assembly Building - this is where the Space Shuttles get prepared for their flights. The get mounted onto a mobile launch platform and will then be dragged to the launch pad. The building is huge and according to the guide the second biggest building in the world with regards to the volume.

Launch Control for the manned Apollo missions to moon

A left-over Saturn V rocket. This is really big.

Another left-over: a moon landing vehicle

The European module Columbus

A  Japanese Module

Explorer never made it into space. Now you can have a look into it

Cargo Bay

A thunder storm shower comes down on the Explorer

We decide to append a trip to Daytona Beach. The city is very calm and dead backwater.

Beach Street

Nice evening mood on the water

A posing squirrel

The atlantic beach. You may drive a car here during the day

Even the trucks have wings in Daytona Beach. The City is home of the Daytona 500, a very popular NASCAR race

The Epcot Center is a must go but quite disappointing. The rides are not very thrilling and the exhibitions are somewhere between silly and outmoded.

First impression

World Showcase Germany - Oktoberfest, of course

Siemens presents the history of communication in Spaceship Earth. This is rather irritating

Fishes on display in The Seas with Nemo and Friends

Numerous Nemos

Mine!

We were there

Nice bird

Fireworks in the evening

Another must go and worthwile. Nice animals in nice enclosures and some nice rides

Pelicans

Dophins

Manatees

Björn grants himself the Journey to Atlantis. It is too wet for me.

Barracuda

A shark above our heads in the shark tunnel

A ray

Sea Lions

Bird fight at the sea lions bassin

The winner

Shamu Show with killer whales (Orcas) - very worth seeing. A great show of about half an hour. Dont go to the lower audience area.

The audience in the lower area gets a lot of water

The flight back is delayed. We see several 4th of July fire works from the air plane. But prior this we see other things

Fernandina Beach at the border between Florida and Georgia

Savannah, Georgia

Interstate 77

Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte