Cars On Fifth

 One of my best fun driving road buddies was in Florida for a couple of weeks so we did some biking, wildlife viewing and attended the Cars on Fifth show in Naples. For two cars guys it was several hours of "I want that one, and one of those and...". Basically every dream car on our wish lists.

The show had a little of everything but mostly high-end exotics.

Maryland Tim, one of my fun driving friends.

It was very crowded and almost impossible to get good photos of cars without people in the way, or shadows or reflections of people.

There were people everywhere. The show's gotten so big they are talking about canceling it or moving it to another location in the future.

Mclaren had a huge collection of very cool cars.

It was just a couple of month before that I saw my first LFA in person, at Cars & Coffee Boca and here they had 2 of them.

There were Porsche's of every model and color, it was like the old Sears christmas catalog from when I was a kid, what dreams were made of. 

The Ford GTs had their own parking lot for both 05-06 generations and several of the latest generation.

There were so many Ferrari's they had their own street and it was full of every color and model up to include a La Ferrari.

Christmas at Tapoco Lodge

 Christmas 25 was in the 60's in North Carolina where we go for fun driving. One of my driving buddies Bama Dave suggested a last minute trip with our wives, so sightseeing and good food and NO fast driving since both our wives hate that. It was perfect top down driving and the day we headed home it dropped to the 30's so we timed it perfect.

Christmas in North Carolina and the weather was beautiful, warm and sunny and perfect for top down driving.

Bridal Veil Falls on route 64 between Franklin and Highlands NC.

One of the overlooks on Foothills Parkway just south of Gatlinburg TN.

Bald River Falls just off the Cherohala Skyway. They rebuilt the bridge over the river a couple of summers about and it's a perfect spot for photos of the falls.

Christmas golf cart and boat parade

 During Christmas everyone in our development in Florida decorates their golf carts and boats and has parades for both.

Boca cars & coffee

 After years behind I finally got up to date with my blog then promptly ignored it for almost a year so I'm way behind again. In the fall of 25 we drove across the state for the Boca Raton cars & coffee. We met up with a bunch of other LC500 owners, about 15 in total and had a blast.

My favorite LC500 color, Structural Blue which was only available for one year on the inspiration series and only with a white/blue interior which I would get dirty way to fast for me to own.

The entire group of LCs lined up.

There were some other interesting things to photograph besides cars.

My absolute dream car, a V10/9k redline Lexus LFA. Unfortunately it costs as much as a nice house so I'll never get to drive, let alone own one. We did do a short drive behind it and it sounds amazing, like an F1 car.

This was my wife's favorite car in this color, she said she would like to get one except they are about 300k.

I can't afford the LFA but R33 and R34 GT-R are now old enough to be imported to the US, I might look at one of these, see if I could handle right hand drive and left hand shifting.

After the cars & coffee a group of LC owners took a group drive along the ocean and it was a blast to see so many together. I'm lucky if I see 1 or 2 a month.

Ducks

 As we were closing up the house to head south for the winter 2 pairs of Mallard Ducks showed up on our pond. We have tons of geese most of the year but ducks not so often. 

The males have the bright green heads.

The females are a mottled brown all over.

One of the males was busy cleaning his feathers, he'd dunk himself in the water than flap his wings to dry off.

With this post I'm finally up to date. I got behind in posts maybe 5 or 6 years ago and finally just caught up. Guess it's time to go out and take some more photos.