Saturday, 21 May 2022
I pulled into the driveway around 1 pm this afternoon after 2, 117 miles and 13 days of travel. It was a great trip.
I left Jacksonville around 7:30 this morning after a few starts and stops. I parked in the public garage next to the hotel where the first floor is reserved for guests of the hotel. No one said anything when I checked out but I asked at the desk how to get out of the parking garage.
Unbeknownst to me, you were to keep one of your room key cards and use that to to open the gate. It didn’t work. I even tried my credit card and it wouldn’t accept it. I re-parked and went to the front desk where they took my key card and re-coded it for the city code. It finally worked.
On the way out I filled up with diesel and also aired up the left front tire. It seems to be leaking more and more these days. I guess I’ll start looking into tires this week. I still need to see about getting the driver’s head rest repaired or replaced.
Ever since fudging my response to a question about unpacking from a camping trip during my Boy Scout days, I’ve always unpacked as soon as I got home. I don’t like doing it at the time but it makes life a lot easier the next day. I even wash clothes and put everything away.
Tomorrow is grocery shopping and sometime this week I need to wash and clean the jeep. Love bugs were out but not as bad as I had been expecting. It’ll still take some scrubbing to clean the bumper and grill. Fortunately, it rained several times during my trip so I washed away most of the dirt road episodes.
I admit to being tired. It seems the last leg of the trip – coming back home – is the most tedious. Instead of the usual slow down in Palm Beach (they have apparently finished construction on all the exits) I slowed to a crawl on Commercial Blvd. There was no reason other than the right hand lane ended and everyone was frantically trying to get over. There was the usual mess at Broward Blvd.
Tonight I intend to relax, have a glass or two of wine, and go to bed early!