Spring Break 2004
Fort Myers Beach, Florida

[How about a week in Florida?  How about a 22 hour trip to Florida?  How about a 21 hour trip back to Pennsylvania?  Say "yeeas" to each of those questions?  Right, so we did.  YET, we had a blast.  Okay, so good thing I haven't put the pictures up sooner.  Give me a break.  I do have a life.  And this is definitely a highlight.  I'll try to do my best to storybook it, but mostly you'll get the pictures themselves.  There was 3 parts of our trip, I mean pretty self-explanatory:  The trip down, the FLORIDA, and the trip up.  Take them in order and you'll get the story.  If you jump around looking for the hot pictures, well, Florida was hot, kinda.  Okay, so you got the instructions, now enjoy the pictures.] -tim

[Characters: Who made the courageous trip?]

Andrew Miller
  • Aka "Bam"
  • 19 years 
  • Residence: Sandusky, OH
  • Good at making up time, known for saying "yeas," takes many random pictures, got some sun
  • 585-9691
Tim Benedict
  • 20 years
  • Residence: This is my home
  • Drove many long hours, acts like the daddy, the connection to Florida, enjoys the movie Serendipity very much, bowled first turkey over break
  • 585-9693
John Amos
  • 19 years
  • Residence: Clarks Summit, PA
  • Misses a lot of calls on his cell phone, beat his friends score on his cell phone, has a cell phone, doesn't have a plan.  if he didn't like country, he had headphones.  

 

 

[The Pictures]
pretty self-explanatory, but the pictures are divided up in 3 segments:  The Trip Down (this page), FLORIDA, and the Trip Up (See the final page for Media Downloads)

PICK ONE:
[ trip down------FLORIDA!------trip up ]

Day of Departure: snow.   Wide awake at 4 am, without a friend in......oh well plenty of those.  But it is 4 am and it's time to go. through the worst snowstorm of the year, and pushing even still.  pilot-instinct in me: just keep an eye on the instruments.
How do you cope with one guy loving country and the other not minding it?  A typical sight.   Keep busy, keep busy, keep busy.   Yep, we're still driving.  
Bam vowed to take his shirt off as soon as it was warm.  South Carolina was good to him this is not Tim, all you parents who see this.  Mine would definitely be faster (right guys?) dreaming of tomorrow and someone else too
3rd leg of the journey, John takes the wheel and Bam takes the back.  unfortunately we brought a ton of stuff home, but he still managed to sleep soundly. Ah, GA sunsets and we're almost home.  The camera goes off as we go on

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