Tuesday, April 1st – Goodbye Florida!

 

They say all good things must come to an end and that was true for me today. We loaded up the car and by 8:30 this morning we had started our trip back home. It has been a fantastic 3 months for us and we remain thankful that we received this blessing to stay in such a warm climate.

Cordell was ready to come home. As for me, I have truly left a part of my heart in Fort Myers. On our way out of town, we stopped and checked out my tin heart geocache that I placed on Valentine’s Day. It is named “I Left My Heart In Fort Myers” and 13 people have already found it.

Once we were out of the Fort Myers area, we drove on some singe lane roads in hopes that traffic would not be as heavy as we have experienced on the major interstates in the past.

 

We passed through some towns that we have seen in our travels to the Orlando area. In one of them, there is a citrus processing center and every time we have been here, we have seen semi-trailers fully loaded with citrus. We think that they must be destined to be made into juice because the fruit on the bottom is surely being squashed by the ones loaded above them.

As we were merging onto Route 4 at Davenport, we had to yield to 3 large sized RVs that were travelling north also. I suppose the exodus from Florida has begun. One of them displayed a license plate from Ontario. I was glad that we don’t have to drive that far.

 

We made a stop a Burger King for a quick lunch. There was a note affixed to the mirror in the ladies room that I thought was a good idea to encourage girls and women.

When we crossed the state line into Georgia, we made stopped to stretch our legs at the Visitors Center and of course, we found a nearby geocache.

 

 

 

 

 We are spending this night in Brunswick, GA. Our hotel has a restaurant attached to it. We enjoyed delicious steak dinners and then took a walk around the complex. So we are now about 1/3^rd of the way home.