Lake City to Winter Park and Home to Naples

Oct 27th Oct 2^8th  

This is our last drive in the motor home. We’re delivering it to the same place we bought it from – American RV Online (www.americanrvonline.com). We got under way bty9:00 AM and made the trip in just under three hours due to light traffic and being on freeways for the entire trip. No hassles on the drive.

Arriving in Winter Park, we pulled the rig into the lot and went to lunch at the Fairbanks Diner. The Owner got back just after we did so we worked out our arrangements then Tina and I went to get the U-Haul truck. We picked up a 14’ truck even though we didn’t need one that big, but needed it because we were towing the car and the ten footer wasn’t certified for towing.

It took us almost three and a half hours to box up everything in the RV, load the truck, hook up the car and sign a contract. By then it was nearly 4:15 PM so we fueled up the truck and struggled our way through Orlando commuter traffic. The roads finally cleared about thirty miles south of Orlando then it was on to Naples. I drove the first 125 miles then Tina drove the final 100 in the dark arriving at the condo around 9:30 PM.

We were fortunate to have a spot where we could get close to the door of the condo and we moved enough essentials in to let us go to bed. After closing and locking the truck, I moved it out of the way and being exhausted we called it a night.

No photos today unfortunately.

Miles to Winter Park, 153 and an additional 236 to Naples.

Total for the trip, 4,411 miles.

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Oct 28^th

First Day in the Condo

We spent all day today unloading the truck, organizing the contents, storing stuff and putting stuff all the RV related stuff in the truck for delivery to U-Haul Storage for next spring, in case we get a new RV. If not we’ll sell or donate it all. By the end of the day we were once again exhausted but happy for all we had accomplished.

Signing off for now….

Mike and Tina