Tuesday, March 31st
Not only is this the last day of March, but it was our
last full day in Florida. We had a couple of errands to run this morning. When
we took our car through the car wash, we saw a rainbow. I took this to be a
good sign.
We have thoroughly enjoyed looking for geocaches for the
past three months and have actually found 374 of them. Cordell, the retired
accountant, has calculated that we have found caches on 63% of our days. Even
so, on this day he wanted to take time to find just one more geocache.
Back at the condo for lunch and then I went for one last
visit to the community swimming pool. I’m not sure how Cordell filled in his
time, but since he had been packed since yesterday, I feel pretty sure whatever
he did it involved a nap.
Wednesday, April 1st
April Fool’s Day and the birthday of my youngest son who
played the biggest April Fools' joke on me when he decided to make his
appearance 19 days late.
We had packed up all our things last night and Cordell
put most of them in the car before we went to bed. Since we both work up early,
we decided to hit the road and get some breakfast later.
When we left at 6:30 a.m., it was still dark since the
sun rises later in Southwest Florida than it does at home. I think it was
easier for me to leave at that time when I was hardly able to see the green
grass, trees and flowers which I have enjoyed so very much for the past three
months.
There was also some fog which became much heavier once we
left the developed areas. That continued for a good amount of time and it
reduced my visibility of the vegetation. It was pretty when the sun finally
arose.
After driving for 1 ½ hours, we stopped in Arcadia for a
McBreakfast. I noticed that most of the cars had Florida tags which was a huge
difference from the parking lots and roads in Fort Myers.
We were not the only ones leaving Florida today. Seems
like a big part of the United States was at one of the rest stops where we saw
vehicle license plates from lots of different states and Canada.
We always see semi trucks hauling huge loads of oranges
this time of the year.
It was cloudy almost the entire morning and I felt like
we had left the Florida sunshine behind. We even drove through some rain for a
brief period of time.
When we crossed into Georgia at 1:30 p.m., it was 85°
which was a lot warmer than the same time last year.
We saw a pick-up truck from Pennsylvania that had a large
plant visible in the back window. Cordell surmised that the owner carries it
along with him so that he doesn’t have to worry about finding someone to water
it while he is away from home.
We skipped lunch and kept driving until we got to
Brunswick where we are spending the night. Tomorrow we plan to stay in North
Carolina and then on to home by Friday.
It has been a wonderful three months and I know
that the sunshine and warm temperature have spoiled me. We have great memories
to carry us through until January when we plan to become snow birds again.
Hopefully, we have brought some of that wonderful Florida weather with us.
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