{"id":1942,"date":"2015-09-07T13:25:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T18:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2015-09-07T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T18:25:05","slug":"day-72-part-2-southern-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"Day 72 Part 2: Southern Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make better time, we had to give a few things a miss that we would have normally done, like going to NASA, but I am sure we will be back to Florida even if we don&#8217;t move here, so we will go later. Here are some shots from Florida&#8217;s &#8220;Space Coast&#8221;:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-13.58.29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1582 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-13.58.29-e1440200739959-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-18 13.58.29\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-13.58.29-e1440200739959-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-13.58.29-e1440200739959-1024x443.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1583\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-14.25.04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1583\" class=\"wp-image-1583 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-14.25.04-e1440183803734-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-18 14.25.04\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-14.25.04-e1440183803734-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-14.25.04-e1440183803734-1012x1024.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-14.25.04-e1440183803734-300x303.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris and a Large Bird<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-13.50.04-e1440200763923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-13.50.04-e1440200763923-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-18 13.50.04\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-13.50.04-e1440200763923-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-13.50.04-e1440200763923-1024x939.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next we headed into the beginning of the absolutely huge <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miami-Dade_County,_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Miami-Fort Lauderdale<\/a>\u00a0area. We had a look at West Palm Beach, which wasn&#8217;t very nice, and then <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palm_Beach,_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Palm Beach<\/a>, which was lovely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-17.02.56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1585 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-17.02.56-e1440183914627-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-18 17.02.56\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-17.02.56-e1440183914627-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-17.02.56-e1440183914627-1024x562.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We stayed in a small suburb near <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Palm_Beach,_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">West Palm Beach<\/a> called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lantana,_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Lantana<\/a>. There were all these lovely little things that I think might be geckos. Once again, if you are more knowledgeable of nature than\u00a0we are, do let us know:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-18.43.57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1586 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-18.43.57-e1441554365734-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-18 18.43.57\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-18.43.57-e1441554365734-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-18.43.57-e1441554365734.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> The area itself was quite nice:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-18.52.22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-18.52.22-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-18 18.52.22\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-18.52.22-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-18.52.22-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> The hotel, on the other hand, was a bit weird really. It had an ancient 600 watt microwave, so dinner prep was a challenge. It was generally a bit of a dump. Despite the cool name (The Barefoot Mailman Motel), we cannot recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-19.57.03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-19.57.03-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-18 19.57.03\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-19.57.03-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-18-19.57.03-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_97147\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZEthKqOwIHM?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make better time, we had to give a few things a miss that we would have normally done, like going to NASA, but I am sure we will be back to Florida even if we don&#8217;t move here, so&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,203,4,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida","category-lantana","category-video","category-west-palm-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}