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| Garden Theatre in Winter Garden FL |
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VTOL - Vertical Take Off and Landing
Florida Air Museum |
Lulu's cousin Cathy owns a town house in Davenport FL. It is about 10 miles west of Disneyworld. There is a dramatic difference in the weather - among other things - between Tallahassee and Disney. We came down the west coast of Tallahassee driving our electric car. About 150 miles from home is Crystal River. We stop there often because the Wawa Market has 8 superchargers. We can be topped up in 15 minutes. Our car has a range of 350 miles - but I do not like to run it low - so the 150 mile stop is perfect. We could make it to Disney without charging - but I get uneasy. Also - Wawa Markets are based in Philadelphia - and they carry many of the foods from back home in Pennsylvania. I love the soft pretzels and the chicken soups.
Thursday - while the cousins spent the day at the pool - I went touring to Bartow Airbase and the Florida Air Museum near Lakeland. I had both places to myself - I even had a free expert guide in the museum. It was $12 admission - I spent 3 hours there. I charged the car at the Gibsonia Wawa.
Gibsonia is famous because the freaks of the circus settled here. Ringling Brothers Circus used to spend the winter in this area of Florida. They would travel north in giant circus trains - following the good weather north and back. There were many cases of towns being burned out for racial reasons in this area - and the circus people were also discriminated against - thus they formed their own communities.
I had to be back home by 5 pm - because we had dinner reservations and theatre tickets. We drove to Winter Garden to see "Rock of Ages." What a lovely downtown and theatre area. It is a perfect place for an evening stroll - to shop - eat - and see a show.
11 pm is late for me - but we managed - we feel like night clubbers!
Today the cousins are thrift store shopping - and I am typing this story.
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| Bartow Air Base - Free |
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| Bartow |
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Bartow - it is also
an executive airport now. |
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Bartow - they finish cop cars here.
These trucks are for Palm Beach School Cops. |
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| My car at Florida Air Museum |
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| Florida Air Museum |
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This is the BD-5 world's smallest jet.
It is a kit plane. |
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| Tiny little chain saw engines |
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This guy went from Detroit to
Jamaica and back - nonstop |
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| Bravest American Woman |
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Piper Cub was made in Pennsylvania -
then moved to Florida. |
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Painting this F14 Top Gun Tomcat.
It is really big. |
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Russian Mig 21.
Very small and low jet. |
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