Sunday May 4th Georgia 11 am 28C
Econolodge Motel Room... GROSS!
Harvey's Supermarket had some really cheap produce... collard greens, kale, mustard adn sweet potatoes. All on trays with saran wrap. Potatoes were expensive. Meat by the pound. Finally found Lactose Free Milk.
At 1:30 am, you don't always make good choices. While I did check for bed bugs, we missed some other signs in our room until after we had already checked in. I placed some pillows strategically to cover up some mysterious-stuff-that-looked-a lot-like-throw-up so Mei could sleep unaware. The Econolodge in Brunswick GA for $61 was not worth the $61. The floor and walls were sticky with what looked like someone had shaken a pop bottle and let it explode. Tiles were falling off. Vomit down the side of the bed. Dirt on the floor, as well as someone's hair elastics. Hope they managed to have a good hair day even without them. Looked like the maid had not even been in the room.
Brunswick Flash Foods Fuel $75 ~ our Credit Card was denied here. She said Georgia is quite bad for that. When I phoned our company, they had flagged it, then noticed we had called in earlier to say we were traveling and had "unflagged" it. When, nice to know that they noticed?
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| EEEEWWWW |
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| Gross! Thankful I had covered it up so no one saw it until the morning. |
The Econolodge did have the continental breakfast, which was not too bad. We met some nice folks traveling back "north" to Carolina from Florida... snow birds :) We were also introduced to GRITS by Quaker Oats. Same type of package as instant oatmeal. Some eat it like oatmeal with sugar, some with butter and salt and pepper.
We slept for 6 hours and then just wanted to "get outta dodge!"...
Now onto other things, like "find food" as we are getting close to our Florida destination and the townhouse rental. On the plus side ~ we've seen our first palm trees in Georgia ~ small but palms !
Went for a grocery shop at Harvey's Supermarket. They were having a big sale, so that was a pleasant experience. You also don't need a quarter or a loonie to take a shopping cart!
Harvey's Supermarket had some really cheap produce... collard greens, kale, mustard and sweet potatoes. All on trays with saran wrap. Potatoes were expensive. Meat by the pound. Finally found Lactose Free Milk. Most employees and even managers didn't know about Lactose Free. We did find a sign advertising "GLUTEN FREE" and when we looked ~ it was ~ Iceberg Lettuce! HA
Gregg's being called Sugar, Baby a lot... not that he minds...We have also noticed that we are often the minority when we have been stopping for fuel. Accents are wonderful music to our ears!
Florida has Agricultural Inspection Stations.
1:30 pm 31C or 87F
Free Florida grapefruit juice or orange juice... hit the spot! Yes, free. We like this place already!
Also FREE, a Shutterfly photo book that you can do online...oh yea, let's grab one of those for memory making.
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| Mei found a flower on the ground and I got to wear it |
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| More bridges over their wide rivers |
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| Believe it or Not museum we drove by |
Saint Augustine Florida ~ quirky town that we wished we could stop and explore. Lots of pirate theme and Believe it or Not and tour buses, etc.
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| A pirate ship in the dock! |
"It's 1 pm and 30C and we're trying to decide which beach to go to. We were just going to have a picnic... then we decided we should go for a swim. We couldn't find anywhere to change, so we just snuck around in the Yukon with towels. We all caught a wave but Mom. Mom didn't go swimming. We found some shells for souvenirs."
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| Look girls ! The Atlantic ocean! |
There was a man using a big fan motor to fly around in his kite and do loop-d-loo's.
Flagler Beach, north of Daytona Beach.
First dip in the Atlantic Ocean
Gregg just couldn't resist buying some boogie boards. One made it through the afternoon !
Takes awhile longer to drive along the beach, but it was so enjoyable for us prairie folk.
We took the A1A after detouring around Jacksonville.
"We went to the ocean and it was awesome ~ there were waves and sand! We surfed the waves! Daddy broke the big boogie board and we collected shells. There were some very small shells and they were alive. They burrowed back into the sand when the waves went back and the little birds would try to eat them. They were the size of my fingernail. This is so much fun. "
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| Flagler Beach |
An empty luncheon meat container made nice sand bricks.
" I caught a wave Mom!"
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| Comparing our shells and which ones were different from the Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean |
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| We have arrived! |
We're all anxious to check into our townhouse!
If we can peel ourselves off this beach, we'd get going!
