Devall Travels

After a trip we always like to have a rest day or maybe just a local day. Today we got up later and breakfasted before deciding to go to Fort Lauderdale beach. In the end we decided on a river boat trip from Las Olas. The trip is 90 minutes up the New River and as far a Port Everglades and then back looking at the expensive river side houses of the likes of Wendy of burger fame, Sunglass Hut, Alamo car rental to name a few. And Leonard Nimoy's house behind the Hyatt 66 hotel. The hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. After the boat trip we had lunch in an Oirish pub right on the riverfront. You can sit in the shaded front and watch the boats go by and through the draw bridge nearby. It was on the return boat trip that Claire's camera started to play up. Taking pix but showing an error. We used the wifi to locate a Walmart and we set off.  I thought if we could buy a cheap micro SD card and adapter we could save the 600 plus pix she...

We were up early. Most of the packing was the night before and so it was a quick job to load the car. The Mustang trunk was able to take one big case and the little hand luggage one. So where was Air Canada delayed case going? Back seat. Problem. How? Roof down and then hump it over the side onto the back seat. Then roof back up!! Sorted. It was just before ten when we set off. First stop in TomTom was the Triumph dealers on US41 South of Fort Myers.  A bit of a cold atmosphere once they realised we weren't buying. Friendly on entry but no time to chat with a foreigner and Triumph owner. Sally was down to about 114 miles to empty and I wanted to fill it up. Once again the pump refused to accept a zip code. Then it was over to the cashier and  guess how much gas I could squeeze in. I guessed $50. Pre-pay and then go and fill. Click. Click. With only $40 to fill it to the clicks I had to go back and get my $10 refunded. In the UK most petr...