Walt Disney World – Lotusphere day 1, Epcot Very early start for me today, had my first staff responsibilities for the pre-conference day at Lotusphere. The main conference starts tomorrow, but they had some special sessions for business partners, and some optional technical “jumpstart” sessions to allow people to catch up on areas they might … [Read More »]

Walt Disney World – Disney’s Animal Kingdom Our first full day at Walt Disney World today … started fairly early, jumped in the car and drove around to the Animal Kingdom. The first thing we noticed once we arrived was the carpark. It was huge. I mean huge. So huge, it took several minutes to … [Read More »]

Miami to Orlando (via Tampa) Got up relatively early this morning, finished packing the bags, checked out of the Hyatt Regency Miami, and hit the road to Orlando. Actually, we were not quite heading to Orlando, but to the Walt Disney World Resort area, a few dozen miles to the west of Orlando. Rather than … [Read More »]

Wash Day Didn’t do much today … slept in, got up after midday, had some breakfast (?), then jumped in the car to find somewhere to get our photos processed. Found a place quite close by that did genuine Kodak PictureCDs (many other places these days that claim to do PictureCD actually do their own … [Read More »]

Florida Keys We spent the day today driving along the Florida Keys – a beautiful archipelago of 40 islands that stretches south from the tip of Florida, dividing the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Connecting many of the islands is the 126 mile Overseas Highway, which includes 42 bridges – of which the … [Read More »]