This past Sunday we headed 30 miles north to visit the Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers which included 20 acres of historical buildings, historic gardens, the Edison Botanic Research Lab and the Estates Museum. The best part, we got in free thanks to our Naples Botanical membership. Yep, we have only been members for 2 months and have already used two of our reciprocal admissions.

The Estates have a really cool self-guided audio tour which Mason even enjoyed.



This building, the Edison Botanic Research Lab, is under construction but we were able to step in and step back in time to imagine Thomas Edison working on an actual invention.