Saturday, March 1, 2014

More coasts than coats

GL-  The First Coast, Palm Coast, Space Coast, Treasure Coast, Gold Coast, The Keys, Lee Island Coast, Cultural Coast, Sun Coast, Nature Coast, Emerald Coast, and not to be forgotten, The Forgotten Coast. If you knew all those then you probably drive a 1998 Lincoln Town Car with 560 miles on it. 
Georgia, not on my mind. 

We had a pretty good run down to the Treasure Coast. This is where we will leave our vehicle while we head south from Oriental in the boat. NC named all their coasts The Banks. Pretty full of themselves. 

Trailer tire to the tender torn to tatters 

Somewhere along the Space Coast we had a tire explode on the dinghy trailer which was pretty cool. For a second I thought we were in Miami until my wife said Sweetheart we lost a tire. 

One great thing about Florida is the minimum freeway speed is 80 mph.  We were in the far left lane passing everyone when the tire blew with the report of a canon. We slowed down to the minimum speed and crossed the 4 lanes over to the berm,proceeding to drive on the rim to the next exit. One hour later we had the tire replaced and were back on the road. 

Jenny reacts to the loss of the tire. 

Anyway we arrived here in the Moonshine State.  In about a week we should be taking our first trip down the ditch in this boat. 

Best cow sandwich this side of the Mason Dixon 


 

1 comment:

  1. You should be a travel writer Gunar. Glad you guys made it safely.

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