{"id":443,"date":"2010-09-09T19:28:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/"},"modified":"2010-11-23T09:54:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T09:54:26","slug":"1990-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/1990s\/1990-2\/","title":{"rendered":"1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Orlando, Florida<\/strong>, USA<br \/>\nIt had taken Angus fifteen years to persuade Marg to go to America.\u00a0 His time in New York included a stay in Lake Wales, Florida and visit to Disnyworld in 1973 as recorded in <a title=\"Atlantic Airmail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/geo-story\/atlantic-airmail\/\" target=\"_blank\">Altantic Airmail<\/a>. Once there, we visited EPCOT, MGM Studios, Sea World and, of course, we found our inner-child in the Magic Kingdom where we &#8216;stood in line&#8217; with families with young children to get a signature from Mini Mouse.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/florida100-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-444\" title=\"Mini Mouse and Marg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/florida100-26.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Mouse and Marg\" width=\"290\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mini Mouse and Marg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/florida100-30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-445\" title=\"Rain capes appear like magic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/florida100-30.jpg\" alt=\"Rain capes appear like magic\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/florida100-30.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/florida100-30-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rain capes appear like magic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We went to the Kennedy Space Centre and layer stood on Cocoa Beach in anticipation of a night-time shuttle launch which was aborted with nine seconds to spare. Our disappointment was softened by seeing newly hatched turtles on the beach heading out to the sea.<br \/>\nIt was a two centre holiday and we went on to stay at Hotel Cesar, <strong>St Pete Beach<\/strong> on the Gulf of Mexico near St Petersburg. One driving-song set the soundtrack to the I4 journey and takes us back whenever we hear it: Alannah Miles &#8216;Black Velvet&#8217; (Alannah Miles, 1989) [<a href=\"http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/36OhWMoZxyTgjUWw3T98Cy Alannah Myles \u2013 Black Velvet\">Spotify link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>We loved our holiday in the United States so much we went back, later in the year, to <strong>Los Angeles<\/strong>, California, <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong>, Nevada and <strong>Grand Canyon<\/strong>, Arizona.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/california102-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-446\" title=\"Queen Mary and the Spruce Goose\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/california102-7.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Mary and the Spruce Goose\" width=\"290\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Mary and the Spruce Goose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-447\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grandcanyon102-41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-447\" title=\"Grand Canyon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grandcanyon102-41.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Canyon\" width=\"290\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Canyon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Eurotunnel Exhibition Centre, Folkestone, Kent &#8211; Channel Tunnel Breakthrough<\/strong>,<br \/>\n1 December 1990<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-795\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mum-Sarah-Marg-1Dec90.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-795\" title=\"Lorna, Sarah Craig, Marg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mum-Sarah-Marg-1Dec90-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Lorna, Sarah Craig, Marg\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mum-Sarah-Marg-1Dec90-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Mum-Sarah-Marg-1Dec90-1024x703.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorna, Sarah Craig, Marg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando, Florida, USA It had taken Angus fifteen years to persuade Marg to go to America.\u00a0 His time in New York included a stay in Lake Wales, Florida and visit to Disnyworld in 1973 as recorded in Altantic Airmail. Once there, we visited EPCOT, MGM Studios, Sea World and, of course, we found our inner-child &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/1990s\/1990-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1990&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-443","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P210ys-79","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions\/794"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pannage.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}