June 23: Fort Myers, FL: Thomas Edison's winter home
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Edison's huge Banyan tree
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Edison's friend Henry Ford bought a winter home next door
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Tampa Bay: Outside Todd Gould's condo in Indian Rocks Beach
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June 24: Sunshine Skyway Bridge across Tampa Bay
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Tampa Bay Hotel, built by railroad magnate Henry Plant; now home of the University of Tampa
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Ybor City, built in Tampa by the Key West cigar factory owners to escape the strikes and be close to the railroad; now a bohemian district
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St. Petersburg Pier
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June 26: Port Canaveral, FL: With Marcela from São Paulo, who works on a Disney cruise ship
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Kennedy Space Center, looking toward the space shuttle Discovery waiting on the launch pad
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Vehicle Assembly Building
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The actual Apollo control room
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Ocala, FL: Backing up to take a picture, I again nearly ran into, not one, but a whole colony of two and a half inch long Golden Orb Weaver spiders, but this time I had read up on how to focus manually
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June 28: Pensacola, FL: Naval Aviation Museum
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Airship gondola mounted on the ceiling
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Catalina
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