Florida Bound 2012--Day 11

Another moving day.

My week in Navarre, visiting with my cousins, has come to a close. Had a good time with Bob & Yvonne and hated to leave but it was time to move on. Bob and I made several excursions out during the week but Yvonne was pretty much house bound. She cares for her neighbors infant son while both of these neighbors work on weekdays. (Both are in the US Air Force and stationed at the nearby base.) Also, during the week their dog, Toby, experienced some medical problems and had to be taken back and forth to the Vet three separate days. Yvonne was able to join us on Friday afternoon when we drove to Foley, Alabama, for lunch/dinner. On Saturday morning the three of us went up Highway 98 to a local Flea Market. We spent about three hours browsing the booths and did wind up picking up a few items at bargain prices.

Since I knew I'd be going from the Central Time Zone to the Eastern Time Zone this morning I had set the clocks ahead an hour last night before going to bed. So when I pulled out at 8:00 AM on the clock it was actually 7:00 AM local time. As I was pulling the coach around to hook up the car I noticed the sun was rising over the bay. I take a lot of sunset pictures but am seldom up when the sun comes up. So here is a very rare, and probably the only, sunrise picture anyone will see that I have taken. This is from the back of the campground over the bay in Navarre.

The drive to Daytona Beach, according to my computer mapping program, was to be about 445 miles. That is more than I normally like to do in one sitting. Usually around 300 miles in a day is about right. Also, I knew Ron & Kay Rivioli, the folks I came to visit, would not be home until late in the day. They have worked all week at the Tampa RV Supershow this week and could not leave over there until they had completed their performance this morning and then loaded all their equipment into the van they tow behind their motor home. After driving across the top of Florida to Jacksonville we dropped south on Interstate 95 to Daytona Beach. We arrived around 5:00 PM, about two hours before Ron & Kay made it in. While waiting I walked down to the end of their street to take a sunset picture out over the intercoastal waterway. (Their house is located on an island between the intercoastal waterway and the Atlantic Ocean.) Also while waiting I snapped a picture of their winter house here in Daytona Beach. It's a neat house with many outdoor beach type decorations. They are currently in the process of completely remodeling the interior to make it more livable for them. (They just completed another house at the other end of the block that they now have ready to rent, fully furnished, to anyone who would like to spend time at Daytona Beach.) And, speaking of remodeling, Ron is also redoing that vintage VW Bus that is sitting in the driveway. Anyway, I am now parked in their driveway, next to the VW, for the night. Tomorrow, in the daylight, we'll move the coach over to the side of their house so it is not so conspicuous to the local authorities that someone is actually living in their yard. After working all week doing the lighting and sound for the entertainment acts at the RV Show, plus performing the last two days themselves, they were really tired. We went to a nearby Italian restaurant for a wonderful dinner and then all adjourned to our respective "houses" for the night.