I have to beat it back to Southwest Florida this afternoon. Going to sample some food from the kiosks at the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival before I go. Lets go taste stuff!
Tag Archives: On The Road
See ya real soon
Might come back at end of month when my brother is here. See ya real soon!
I have arrived in Walt Disney World
I took a side trip to Banana Republic, where I got a FREE dress to wear to my niece’s Sweet 16. Now I am finally on property at Walt Disney World – wheeee!
Road trip? Guess where I’m going?
There’s a hint in the photo….
Kris Krossing the Sanibel Island Causeway
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On Friday, I took a run out to Sanibel Island to celebrate my birthday. As I came through the toll, a really OLD song came on the radio, so I decided to “roll tape” for the perilous crossing. Join me for a ride in the “happy lane” 🙂
Wildlife crossing
Your first clue that you’re in a refuge – a sign that warns of slithering, scampering, and sauntering critters. Please do not run them down in your hasty zeal to be one with nature. Thank you!
Today’s adventure: Cape Coral’s Four Mile Cove Eco park
I was in Cape Coral this morning, working on a photo project with a fellow nature geek. On the way over the Midpoint Bridge from Fort Myers, I decided it was high time I’d visited an attraction I’ve passed a dozen times but never stopped. Let’s go!
Panther crossing!
Had to drive though the Florida Panther Refuge to get here. Didn’t see any panthers, but it was still exciting just to be there 🙂
Today’s Adventure: I’m Everglades-bound!
I’m headed dian to the Everglades for the very first time! I’ll be doing a birding tour this afternoon. Will try to send some pictures as we go along. Let’s go! 🙂
See Ya Real Soon, the finale
I just can’t resist this point and pray shot.
See ya real soon!
See ya real soon, part 1
Always sorry to leave, but I know I will be happy to get home to my own bed.
Monorail it is!
I think I’m about two loads back in the queue.
Guess where I am?
The conference is over and now it’s time to play! Going to meet my brother and family for lunch. Guess where? Here’s a clue…..
“You have arrived…”
That’s what the GPS lady always says, but I don’t need GPS to get to The happiest Place on Earth. I had not been here more than 2 minutes and already had three great CM encounters.
1. The security dude doing bag check looked deep into my eyes and said, "Have fun, Princess."
2. The CM at the turnstiles took note of the fact that Goofy is on my AP and said, "hey there, no goofin’ around now haw haw haw!" just like Goofy
3. I’ll tell you the third one in a minute…
You see the strangest things on the road
Heading north on I-75 this morning – there, I’ve given you a clue as to where I am headed – I noticed John Boy Walton’s truck being flat-bedded to somewhere.
Today’s Adventure: ROAD TRIP!
Guess where I’m off to? You’ll never guess LOL 😉
Citrus cargo on Immokolee Road
For part of the way down to Immokolee and the Wildflower Festival, I followed a citrus truck which showered the road with fluttering foliage. It lost exactly ONE orange the whole way I followed it.
Thanks for a great hike
I was able to take a bunch of photos with my Canon, which I will post in the future. Had a great afternoon overall – want to do it again soon!
Restitution to my readers: it’s a do-over!
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This is the first in a series of “do-over” posts that are being created to make up for the mobile blogging errors that occurred during my last trip to Orlando.
Intrepid readers, especially those who read this blog via RSS feed or email subscription, may have noticed that during my last trip to Orlando, there were some issues with the pictures that we’ve never had here before. For those reading via RSS reader or via email, my most recent mobile blogging efforts from Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando Resort didn’t display photos – just links or else nothing at all. This wasn’t random – there’s a reason.
This was the first time I used the WordPress app for iPhone to mobile blog an adventure. The photos are stored in a different spot than they were when I was using Flickr to mobile blog here, and I believe the anti-hotlinking settings caused the problem. My bad – didn’t know subscribers were going to be interpreted that way!
I feel terrible that people had to jump through hoops to see the photos, so guess what? Do-over! 🙂 That’s right. We’re going to relive the trip, the good old fashioned way, using Flickr to host the photos. I’ll spread it out in posts over several days, to simulate an actual mobile blogging adventure. LOL, there’s something about that idea that just makes me laugh 😀 Laughter is good for us. So here we go…
The first thing one needs to do when embarking on a 3 hour drive from Fort Myers to Orlando is obtain sufficient fuel for the journey. That’s a grande-no-whip-mocha, purchased at 8:27 AM on Monday February 13th, if the time stamp on the original photo is to be believed. There’s a large heart logo on the cup which can be scanned with your phone using the Starbucks “Cup Magic” app. I’m not going to tell you what happens when you scan it, but it’s cute 🙂

Mickey Ears On I-4 This is one of my famous “point and pray” shots; eyes on the road at all times, aim camera in general direction of target, hope for the best! I usually try to get this structure both coming and going. It’s on I-4, just west of the first exit for Walt Disney World (there are four exits, I believe).

Characters In Flight BONUS: another point and pray shot. I happened to get lucky and see Characters In Flight was aloft as I passed between exits 67 and 68. I was headed for exit 75A, Universal Blvd.

Room With A (Hogwarts) View This was the view from my room at the Four Points by Sheraton, Orlando Studio City. I am an SPG member (Starwood Preferred Guest) and I usually seem to score a Hogwarts view when I stay at this hotel, which I like a lot. It is pretty much always reasonably priced, it’s clean and comfortable and was redecorated fairly recently – maybe within a year and a half or thereabouts. Plus it is right outside the gates of Universal Orlando Resort, and I can stay there free using Starwood points. If you are interested in the Starwood program, click here to read more about it.

Just a stroll across the parking lot of the hotel is an International House of Pancakes. I happened to have a gift card left over from Christmas, and I was ravenously hungry, so it seemed hike a harmonic convergence. Off I went to have one of their “smart” meals before hitting the parks to meet up with friends.

I emerged from the iHop apparently in the nick of time, for an egret had already besmirched the windshield next to mine and had that look in his eye, like he wanted to leave his mark on a Toyota. Um, no. You go ‘way now, ok? 😉

By 1:52 PM, this is where I was standing, waiting for the tram to take me into Disney’s Hollywood Studios. I was about to have some fun and frolic with a pair of old and dear friends (when I say “old”, I do not mean that we are ancient; I mean that we were all once young together 😉 )
Stay tuned, there will be more – we are only just beginning!
See ya real soon, Mickey!
C’mon get HAPPY
Here in Maples,Florida to see HAPPY, an offering at the Naples Film Festival. Should be awesome 🙂
Through the raindrops – see ya real soon!
Price of gas in Walt Disney World today
Frequent guests to the World might recognize this iconic gas station signage. What’s the price where you live?
Just passing through
Decisions, decisions!
See ya real soon
Bye bye Old Key West
Tried to drive to Magic Kingdom to meet Chez Bro and SIL but there was heavy traffic due to triathlon. Came back and dumped car at Old Key West again and took the looooong bus ride the round-about way. Finally in the park!
Fabulous blue skies over Walt Disney World
We’ll be paying a visit to Epcot just as soon as I get gasoline – don’t go away!
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Hey there, hi there, ho there!
Pretty good for a "point and pray" shot, huh? I’m at a traffic light waiting to pull into my hotel’s parking lot.
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Fuel for the running of errands and the purging of closets

Fuel for the running of errands and the purging of closets, originally uploaded by Erin aka Tink*~*~*.
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See ya real, REAL soon!
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Driving onto Disney property is always a thrill
Now with new and improved happiness – The Pearly Gates on Osceola Parkway
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Why yes. Yes it is :)
Pulled over to send these last two "point & pray" shots.
SEE YA REAL SOON!
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Is this a promise?
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Pearly Gates for the last time
Until next month, that is. Another niece is coming to visit so of course, we need to visit Mouse Mecca 🙂
The family is having lunch in EPCOT and then proceeding to the Studios before heading out to MCO. I have just arrived at Studios and I am on the tram, trundling toward the gates.
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Guess which park we’re in today!
Shhhh! Don’t tell Mickey lol
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Parked in Minnie
It loks REALLY crowded in the Magic Kingdom this morning. The family is already inside
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Pearly Gates Jr. At Hotel Plaza Blvd
Got my Starbucks fix and now I’m going to cruise Buena Vista Blvd up to Magic Kingdom
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Someone remind me later where I parked
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Nothing like the sight of the “pearly gates”
I still get a thrill no matter how manytimes I drive onto Disney property 🙂
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One more hour till Disney
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Gasoline, Ft Myers – will post Orlando when I get there
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Bye-bye… SEE YA REAL SOON!
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Ready for the drive home!
If you buy a pound of Starbucks today for get a free $5 gift card!
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One more time, with feeling
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Now to find food and friends, in that order
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Passing the POP
Taken at the red light ouside Disney’s Pop Century resort
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Red light at Pearly Gates Jr.
Because I need something to amuse myself at red lights LOL
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Parked in th boondocks of EPCOT
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Pitstop at the Poly
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magic Kingdom, here I come
Pearly gates to the Magic Kingdom. No longer referring to it as "late" start – it’s now "leisurely" 😉
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If only it were true…
Those ankle-biting, shin-splitting… strollers! What? You thought I meant the children? 🙂 LOL
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EPCOT and some @badelves for dinner
Ok that doesn’t sound quite right, does it? Ha ha ha
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Hopeful sign…
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Journey so far – no, I’m STILL not in Disney World yet!
It stared last night when I could not get to sleep. The last time I looked to the clock, it was after 4:00 am. Naturally, there was no getting up at 8 as planned. Did not leave house until after 10, when I determined I needed gas. Got gas, went about a mile on I-75 and came to a stand-still at exit 136. Crawled a while. Fellow travelers and I were dumped unceremoniously off the interstate at exit 139. Had to pull over and fire up GPS on my phone to figure out how to get to somewhere I knew. Wove in and out the streets until I found US highway 41 ("Lord, I was born a ramblin’ man…"). Crossed the Caloosahatchee via the Edison Bridge and started looking for a road, any road, that I knew to be an exit off I-75. Bayshore Road it is. Now I’ve gotten as far as Ellenton and needed to pee and walk around a bit. I still have an hour and a half to go before I hit Disney Property. Lord, have mercy and spare me further travel agony!
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On my way to WDW
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Explosion in Fort Myers on Colonial
UPDATE: At least one local news agency is saying that a backhoe hit a gas line, one person injured.
Not sure what’s on fire in the westbound lane of Colinial just west of SR 82. This has been an election year construction zone for a while now.
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But then, you get a smile
It’s like Disney knows you’re sad and wants you to come back. So they give you something to smile about.
SEE YA REAL SOON!
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One more time through the Pearly Gates
Meeting da fam on proprty for lunch – looks like it might rain!
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Now we know where all the Pleasure Island peeps ended up

Now we know where all the Pleasure Island peeps ended up, originally uploaded by Erin aka Tink*~*~*.
People have been thronging into the Universal resort for a couple of hours now.
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We’re now entering Disney’s Animal Kingdom
I will be coming back to the hotel early to do more studying. In the meantime, I want to destress at Disney’s most beautiful park.
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Wow – doors on the trams!
I’d heard about this but didn’t realize it had already been implemented. Now a CM is walking up and down making kids sit on the inside. What happened – did someone fall out of a tram and sue?
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Mickey on a truck! #lakebuenavista
Love this Mickey head made of soap bubbles – guess this truck delivers clean towels and such to the resorts
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Grim grinning hitchhikers! on Palm Parkway #orlando
Look at the col bumper art on this car! Had to obliterate this guy’s license plate with a little clip art from the phone.
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changed my mind – going back to EPCOT tonight
i see storm clouds and would rather be in EPCOT if it rains.
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Familiar sign at #Disney’s Boardwalk
Had to valetthe car, for the sooper seekrit lot is full. heading into EPCOT where Chez Bro and SIL are already in progress.
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Hess station near #Disney’s Boardwalk
After three hours on the interstate, a little dead bug control is called for. Fortunately, the Hess station near Disney’s Boardwalk has a car wash. by the way, gasoline is $2.739/gal here today and it took 8.97 gallons to get here.
Now I am done in the car wash and off to see if I can check in…
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I have entered the pearly gates! #disney #wdw
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Getting closer to #Disney
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Bio-break on the way to #Disney World
This is my favorite rest stop along I-75. It’s the McDonald’s in Ellenton, Florida. The bathroom is pretty clean and there’s a Walgreen’s on one side and a gas station on the other side . By the way, gas is $2.72 here – I paid $2.76 two days ago in Fort Myers. Ok break’s over – time to move out!
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On the road – I’m going to #Disney World
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Day trippin’ on Sanibel Island
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Last Friday, just before the three-day weekend festivities here in the United States, I took myself over to Sanibel Island for the day. I am very lucky to live within easy driving distance of the island (half an hour from driveway to causeway), and I really should do this more often.
As I approached the causeway, I encountered this truck on Summerlin Road. Considering all the “Mickey Mouse In The Wild” encounters I’d already experienced that week, I thought the “Don’t Mess With The Mouse!” slogan on the back of the truck was apropos 😉 click photo to see it bigger








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Beautiful SW Florida day – coming over the Sanibel Causeway
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Late start – see ya real soon!
The storm woke me several times last night so I was late gettting my *bux on. I’ll be back at Disney in a few weeks to see family. See ya real
Soon 🙂
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On my way
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Crossing the Peace River, Port Charlotte Florida
i.m on my way to Tampa for some business meetings. after work, I’ll head to Orlando for the weekend.
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See ya real soon :o)
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On the way back to the hotel, saw this big yellow thing in the sky

On the way back to the hotel, saw this big yellow thing in the sky, originally uploaded by Tink*~*~*.
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See ya real soon :o)
See ya real soon
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Approaching the Sunshine Skyway, St. Petersburg, Florida
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🙂 Looks like the sails of
a tall ship in the distance;
when will it set sail?
My obsession with the Sunshine Skyway continues. If I can find a place to pull over and shoot, I do. Otherwise I just keep my eyes on the road, point the lens in the general direction and pray 😉 Not bad, huh? Have a happy and productive Friday, everyone!
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Gateway to Walt Disney World
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🙂 The very first time I drove from my house in Southwest Florida to Walt Disney World, I was on the phone with Lisa, a good friend from Long Island. As I got closer to Disney property, I saw this structure – Lisa calls it “the pearly gates” 😉 – and I let out a scream for joy. “OW!” Lisa exclaimed. “That was my EAR!”.
Ever since that incident, I still call Lisa to pass the time during the 3-hour drive to Disney – but she always asks, “Are we getting close to the pearly gates? Cause if we are, I have to hang up now!”
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Sanibel sad lane sideview
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YELLOW line down the center of the road? check
SunSHINE on the water? check!
We have trifecta 🙂
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Exit to Disney World
W00t!
Walt Disney World adventure begins
Decided to sleep in, so leaving an hour later than planned – should arrive around 1PM
It’s a beautiful day

It’s a beautiful day, originally uploaded by Tink*~*~*. 27 Nov ’08, 12.16pm EST PST
It’s a blie sky Thanksgiving Day on San Carlos Bay
No windsurfers today

No windsurfers today, originally uploaded by Tink*~*~*. 27 Nov ’08, 11.52am EST PST
Moooo!
Rent-a-cows keep ur property taxes low
Glory, Halleluija
Highway signage
Funky solar panel highway lights
Everglades Rest Stop Signage
Almost there!
Map at the Alligator Alley rest stop
Signage at the Alligator Alley rest stop
Yep, it’s the Everglades!
Rest stop in the Everglades
Big Cypress Reservation, Alligator Alley
Big Cypress Reservation (again)
Six Mile Cypress
Good Morning! I’m making the turn south on Six Mile Cypress because I’m on my way to Sanibel! WOOT! I hope to come home with two forms of booty – some cruise-wear, and some shells.