Today's travel was easy, we had to go from Tallahassee to home (Tampa Bay) the majority of which was traveled on US 19 through rural areas. There is a town on this route called Perry FL, it isn't much as towns go, as you will see from the pics.
The odd thing is there are signs where we live that reference this nothing of a place. We live in Pinellas County which has about 1 million population and road signs that show 3 miles to this, 6 miles to that, 10 miles to the other and 168 miles to Perry! As if anyone would ever care or much less go there. The only reason to go to Perry is to get to whatever is on the other side.
Around 12:30 we decide to pull of in Homasassa to get some lunch. The Homasassa river is really cool, very secluded and as much like old FL as you will find that still has some restaurants. No luck though since no dogs were allowed and it may have been too hot to enjoy anyway.
We arrive home a little after 2 pm, the trip home was about 27 hours and 1597 miles. In total we traveled about 4277 miles with Pig Pen in tow. We had no breakdowns on the road and got about 17 MPG, less than the last NAC trip when we got about 19 MPG.
To confirm the foolishness of this trip we received the award for traveling the furthest to the regatta!
We had an awesome trip and owe thanks to Harry and Karen Carpenter for putting us up in Deep Creek. Deep Creek is a great place to get away so if you ever get the chance go see it. Likewise thanks to Ryan Malmgren for sharing his cabin near Ephraim YC, it was great to get to know Ryan, Carrie, Frank and Maryann Gerry.
Back to reality;
The AC in the house cannot get the temperature below 83 f, called the AC repair guy.
The icemaker isn't working.
The washing machine washes but won't spin/drain whatever the heck, the appliance repair guy should be here tomorrow am.
The grass and bushes are huge, I guess it rained while we were gone.
It was also really nice to go 3 weeks w/o really seeing any news and politics.
Thanks to all of you who have been checking in with us and for the comments and emails. The End.
11 comments:
I've really enjoyed reading your amusing daily updates. Congrats on your NAC performance (and surviving the drive). Your blog entries will undoubtedly give you fond memories for years to come.
On the washer: our LG front loader has a little panel on the front (bottom left) that was clogged from a "color catcher". Mine was super easy to DIY...can provide more details if interested.
Regards
Chris
Dave & Kim,
Thanks for the updates.. we would have loved to make it but situation did not allow. You made us miss it more (except for the no wind part). Then again it would have sucked for you to drive that far and not get the trophy!
Hope to see you on the water here soon and get the extended verion on a few stories. Time to get fired up for the FL series..
J&S
ps.. is Wifye what them new eye-phones run on?
pss.. my GPS blames you for her new name
Thank You for you blog - mtt
Thanks for the encouraging comments. We had fun with the Blog aside from some trouble uploading photos and intermittant wifi.
The GPS name is really fitting.
The washer is working!!
Glad to see you guys home safe. Looks like the trip was a good one. TTYL
Awesome trip, wish we were still "out there" ...
Hey J&S nice catch on the "Wifye"
forgot to mention that before
Hey J&S nice catch on the "Wifye"
forgot to mention that before
Great trip. Thanks mucho for sharing the adventure. Sounds like you overcame some very dicey moments. (No beer) Looking forward to seeing you this fall.
B & B, We are looking forward to the fall sailing as well, the highlite is, of course, visiting Sarasota.
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