Delorean World Tour - Travel Blog

Day 203

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2016/03/25 Cocoa - Kennedy Space Center - Orlando (USA)

Today we travelled, starting from Cocoa, to the Kennedy Space Center / Cape Canaveral - the spaceport of the USA.

After a sightseeing tour through the Rocket Garden, followed an Imax movie, a Mars exploration center and the new “Space Shuttle Atlantis”-complex, we started for a special interest tour by bus over the whole area of the Space Center.

Here we were visiting the Vehicle Assembly Building, which is over 160 metres high. Afterwards we visited the starting ramps 39A and 39B of the Apollo and of the Shuttle programs. Additionally, we could see the gigantic Crawler transporters which are capable of carrying the rockets to the starting ramp. We were lucky enough to see one of the transporters moving today.

Finally, the tour led us to the Saturn V building with an original Saturn rocket from the Apollo program inside.

On our way back to the visitor complex there was suddenly heavy rain falling from the skies. Just then one of the rear tires of our bus burst. Although another bus arrived quickly we got soaking wet by changing there.

After we had arrived at our Deloreans at the parking lot,

we drove 90 minutes to Orlando to the Hapimag-Resort where we will stay the next three days. For dinner we had an appointment with the guys from the DeLorean Club of Florida. We also met Delorean-owner Jordan Rubin again. Jordan is an old (Delorean-)friend of us. He used to live in Germany for a long time and moved with his wife and Delo to Orlando a couple of years ago.

Again there was a nice V8-modification to admire.

Day 202

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03/24/2016 Key West - Cocoa (USA)

This morning Wolfgang got up early to take some beautiful photos from the Delorean in front of the Southernmost Point. During the day this is impossible, because there is always a queue of tourists for photos.

At 8:30 am we went on and drove back the same 125 mi. that we came on yesterday, because there is only one road to and from Key West. In these three hours we experienced every possible weather, from bright sun to heavy rain with visibility below 60 ft.

From Miami over the Florida Turnpike and the I95, traffic and weather were moderately better, so we arrived on schedule at 3:30 pm at the Hotel in Cocoa.

We drove past close to Jupiter and Melbourne...

Traffic supervision from the air.

Our restaurant for dinner with delicious seafood!

Day 201

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03/23/2016 Miami - Key West (USA)

Key West, the southernmost point of the USA, was our destination of the day.

The highway US1, also called 'Overseas Highway', runs straight about 120 miles from Miami over the Keys and was because of the Easter holidays and the American spring breaks heavily frequented.
Also the hotel prices in Key West were on 'High Season', the overnight stay here was the most expensive hotel so far on our whole World Tour.

The 7-Mile-Bridge, with almost 7 miles the longest bridge on the Overseas Highway.

The entrance to Key West

Ouick photos (because parking forbidden) at the 'Southernmost Point' of the United States.

Day 200

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Day two hundred (!) of the Delorean World Tour led us from Naples to the east over the US 41 to Miami. We stopped in Everglades City and there we made an Airboat Tour through mangrove forest, swamp- and marshland. All three Delorean drivers were excited by the tour, very recommend !

Mr. Croco

Racoons (tree monkeys)

On the further way to Miami parts of the Everglades were burning , but the fire department was only watching , obviously there was no imminent danger.

Tomorrow we go to Key West, and because the price for gas is higher at the Keys, we filled up today.

A little bit of fun must be.

Day 199

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03/21/2016 Gainesville - Naples (USA)

Today we drove from Gainesville over Tampa, St. Petersburg, Longboat Key and Sarasota along the Gulf Coast to Naples.

The Tampa Bay Bridge and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge

In Bonita Springs we visited the Delorean Motor Company Florida, where we were welcomed by Manager Mike Fiore and Tom Huckleberry. The World Tour DeLoreans were again immediately inspected and marveled by the mechanics.

Then Tom showed us Proto1, the first built Delorean prototype, which still is very different from the later production models. The car was restored a few years ago at DMC Florida, then sold, later bought back and now it is on display in the saleroom.