Florida Day 4

We left Clearwater this morning and traveled toward Ft. Myers. First stop, the Edison and Ford winter estates. We were able to tour the homes, gardens, laboratory and museum. If you know Justin and I, we greatly enjoy things such as this and soaked up the info and the surroundings. One thing we learned is that the two men became good friends and each year, Ford wanted to give Edison a new car. Edison, however, did not like to drive (his son most often drove him). So instead, Ford would update Edison's vehicle each year. This "updated version" is now in the museum. A few pictures follow from the tour. After the museum tour, we drove to Sanibel Island. Our hotel is pictured below as well as some of its colorful surroundings. The beach access from our hotel. After getting settled in at the hotel, we rented some bikes to take a mini tour of the island. It truly has an island feel-not congested, beautiful flowering trees, great bike paths (about 22 miles, we've read). It is truly something. We even biked to dinner at "The Island Cow!" Gerben and Julie-we were thinking of you! We finished our evening with a walk along the beach, joining many others in collecting sea shells. Sanibel Island is known as the sea shell capital of North America. Hammocks...a great end to the evening! Signing off from Sanibel.