Checked out about 11am and started heading up to Cape Canaveral. On the way out of town we went over another of the drawbridges but unlike the day we arrived when the big one was open and we had to wait for a ship this one was firmly down.  We left the 6 lanes each way highway to get some lunch and fill up with petrol. Deciding it was all a bit boring on the highway we headed for the coast at Juno Beach and kept pointing north. Entering Juno beach we went over...

It was a very slow start this morning after last nights excesses lol We managed to get to the last bit of Julian Baggios talk re collecting in Oz, mostly due to all the speakers getting pushed back an hour otherwise we would've completely missed it. We then went to hear Matt Wandell and finally Joe Yaiullo speak. After joe's presentation we spoke to him at some length and told him we were heading his way so now have a standing invitation to let him know when we...

Another day of listening to some awesome speakers. We went to: Chingchai Uckrongtham, Craig Bingman, Kevin Kohen, Dana Riddle and John Coppolino. Whew, big day lol We spoke for some time with Chingchai and all he wanted to know is when we were going to be in Bangkok again. Having seen the full start to finish of his awesome tank it might have to be sooner rather than later. We took another cruise round the vendors and before we knew it it was time to get ready...

Whew what a day! We had breakfast in our room before heading off to face day one proper of the MACNA conference. First up we went to hear Tony Vargas do the welcome speech, after which we spoke to him finally after some year or more of Pete interacting with him on FB., nice bloke :-) We took our first peek around the displays, so much here and so many freebies thrown at all of us. We went to hear talks by Matt Wittenrich, Sanjay Joshi, Vincent Chalias and Terr...

We woke to another beautiful sunny day despite the gloomy, rain laden forecasts. We drove the 100 plus miles of the keys, past calm waterways, over bridges, past multi million dollar mansions, smaller more modest homes, fleets of fishing boats, modest pleasure craft and millionaires ocean going yachts. In many places there were old bridges left for fishing, many with little space between them and power lines so all along there were lines caught over the power l...