Oakland Car Stroll

Posted on by Ian C.

“Long ago” Winter Garden had a downtown car show every few months; the last event was just before covid hit in January 2020 and with downtown still with lots of outdoor seating rather than parking spaces, there’s no longer space for that type of car show.

There have been some car shows in Hamlin but they’re not really the same (mostly more modern cars in a parking lot); there’s also a regular car show at the Margaritaville Resort on US 192 but it’s far enough that we’ve only been twice.

But today we had a nearby “car stroll under the oaks” in Oakland sponsored by Shannon Till; the cars were parked along the West Orange Trail and on the grass (there’s not a lot of space in Oakland!) and we enjoyed our “stroll” …

Tupelo Buffalo Park

Posted on by Ian C.

We had such a fun time at this zoo and drive through wildlife park where it’s allowed – encouraged! – to feed the animals!

First we explored the walk-through zoo area; it’s only ok to feed hoofed animals here, and there were only a few that were interested, but it nice to see the sloth, giraffe and goats …

Then we switched to driving through the Safari area – here it’s ok to feed any animal that comes up to the car windows and WOW did we do that a lot! Camel, Zebra, Buffalo, Ostrich and more – absolute fun and hilarity, we had to drive round again and were very pleased to have purchased four feed containers so we didn’t run out! This is a must do event (though the buffalo got a bit keen to rub against my car, no damage but maybe someone would be less lucky another day) …