Well, we made it to Florida. Tonight we are staying in a little town in the panhandle called Marianna. It took us five days, at about 500 miles a day, to get this far. If all goes well, we will be in Venice by tomorrow afternoon where we'll stay briefly before going to Ft. Lauderdale then Costa Rica for about three weeks. After that we'll return to Venice where we plan to stay for the rest of the summer.
The drive went pretty well. We only had a couple of fights, regretted only one too-close-to-the-freeway-to-get-a-good-night's-sleep motel and ate at only one really bad restaurant. We did have to battle our cheap ass GPS from time to time but it still works. That's something. And we realized something about the South that never occurred to either of us before. Louisiana and Florida have hogged a helluva lot of coastline from Mississippi and Alabama.
Language itself is a barrier.
4 comments:
Glad you arrived! What a long trip.
I learned some stuff. It is the same distance, (almost) to go to Florida via Omaha as it is to go through Texas. Geographically, not psychologically. The other thing was it is nearly the same just to drive to Guatemala. That's a long drive. The other thing, apparently Google Maps does not want to explain how to get all the way to Costa Rica, and makes you stop at the southern tip of Mexico.
Have fun!
Yes, thanks. Whew. But we leave again tomorrow.
Texas sucks! Even Omaha is better than that rat hole.
We drove from Nevada to the Guatemala border a few years ago but we did not average 500 miles a day. However, I would NOT want to drive in Central America. There is a limit even to our insanity.
Let me just say driving in Central America can be very, very trying at times and although the distance might be the same the speed bumps, policia, military road blocks and cattle sure makes things slow moving at times. We crossed into Guatemala only to be stopped for 3 hrs by a worker's protest. Fortunately little girls were selling fried bananas to the motorists and since then I've always been a sucker for a good fried banana - whoa that was a tangent!
Glad to hear you made it!
Kimberlee, you guys are my heroes. Your Canada to Chili odyssey road trip in Paris was truly one for the books. Didn't donkeys pull her over a mountain pass in Peru after she broke down? Our road trips through Mexico will always be very sweet, very special memories, even with all the military road blocks, speed bumps and animals on the road, but by the time we met you and Ricardo in Guatemala, we had tossed in the towel and switched to public transportation.
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