Happy Holidays from Ft Pierce.  Have been here for a week and enjoying the warm weather. Have a few pictures and will add more over the next 3 weeks.

We arrived in Key Largo at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.  Beautiful state park with beaches, scuba, snorkeling, trails.

Spent our first morning at Starbucks and then went for groceries and were serenaded by local kids band....

Explored the park, walking trails, beaches and birds....

Off to Ft Pierce......thanks for "tagging" along.

We arrived in Tampa and are enjoying some warmer weather.

Made a quick trip to Minnesota for a family funeral....weather was a little different....

Spent some time with grandchildren.....

Michele selected her Christmas hat.......

Back to Tampa and our campground.....

Off to Key Largo......

During our stop in Tallahassee we visited Florida State University where Gordon went to Graduate School.  The School of Social Work is now located adjacent to the football stadium.....

Had a great conversation at the School of Social Work with the Director of the MSW Program who introduced us to the Dean, Dr Mazza....

We then toured the campus and had lunch at a student dining hall where we were asked "how is your freshman year going?"

Now we are off to Tampa via Ocala.....

Moved a "whoppin" 5 miles down the road to Topsail State Park on Santa Rosa Beach.  Stayed here last Spring and thought we would come back on our way down to South Florida.  Recently went to the National Museum of Naval Aviation on the airbase in Pensacola.

Presidential Helicopter used during the Nixon administration

Applied to fly with the Blue Angels.....still waiting to hear

Hanging out on Miramar Beach in Destin, FL, watching the sunsets.  More to follow.

Montgomery, AL....."birthplace of Civil Rights" and the first Capitol of the Confederacy.  Martin Luther King Jr moved from Atlanta to become pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church from 1954 through 1960.  In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus which launched the Montgomery bus boycott which lasted 18 months until the Supreme Court struck down laws segregating public transportation. King led the boycott and organized the Southern Leadership Conference while in Montgomery.

Alabama State Capitol

First White House of the Confederacy

The Civil Rights Memorial Center is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation.

Dexter Avenue Parsonage where the King family lived

Park located by the Rosa Parks bus stop

Court Square Fountain built on the site of slave trading

Home of F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Attended the Montgomery Symphony season opening concert

Off to Florida Panhandle beaches.....