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Bob and Ted have started their great adventure.
Bob has an album on Webshots.com for photos:
http://community.webshots.com/album/571160860rrxbTe I have collected his notes to me. The date and time is when I received them in my inbox.
You can see more at his website:
http://buffalobobcasale.com/ Pat (Koziuk) Driscoll 4/13/09 –
8:23 am ...it's Monday morning and Ted and I are in
Montgomery, Alabama.
4/13/09 –
3:40 pm ...we just arrived in Niceville a little while ago.
It took about four hours and rained the entire time plus all of last
night and it's still raining. 4/15/09 -
8:47 am I went online this morning and my new little Eee PC
had a keyboard that was typing oddball characters on both the computer
and my wireless keyboard. I went to Best Buy and the Geek Squad fixed
the keyboard on the computer, something about I hit control numbers lock
and corrupted the keyboard. 4/16/09 – 7:32 am ...it's early Saturday morning, the 11th of April.
Masters has hit Augusta this past week and the traffic was horrendous.
Ted and I picked up and loaded the motor home on Thursday, April 9th,
then took off for a campground in South Carolina...Hickory Knob State
Resort Park...what a beautiful location. I let Ted back the fifth wheel
into the spot...I'm still a nervous wreck but will get better as we go
along. 4/14/09 –
7:50 pm Ted and I arrived at the Keys around 3:30 this
afternoon and set the motor home up for the overnight. Our mileage to
date is about 1,300 miles. Actually, we will be here two nights...Thursday and Friday night. We had to park around 40 miles from the Keys because they had no openings for motor homes in that area. Tomorrow, Ted will be driven to Key West and will start his ride. He will return to the site where we parked and then Saturday we are off to the next Key. We are dedicating this excursion to the VetDogs website, a project of Guide Dog Foundation (GDF) that provides Guide Dogs and Service Dogs to veterans. We have been asking the foundation to set up a donation page that can be accessed directly. Please wait with your donation until I find out something from GDF. Check out the following http://buffalobobcasale.com/ and The systems in the motor home are becoming more familiar...I'm still anxious hooking up and dropping the trailer from the truck. It's getting better. Gonna try to blog another blog, then watch a movie with Ted... When Worlds
Collide; an oldie but goodie. 4/19/09 –
7:17 pm Pat... Don't know where I left off. We stayed in Niceville on Monday....Gainesville on Tuesday....Vero Beach on Wednesday....then got to Big Pine Key on Thursday and laid over for two nights. Reason for staying at Big Pine Key was because we couldn't get any accommodations in the Keys. Friday, we drove to Key West...about 40 miles...early because we wanted to look around. We went to Fort Zachary Taylor and ate lunch in the original Jimmy Buffet Restaurant in the early afternoon. Ted wanted to get some carbs before he started his initial bike excursion. He got back to Big Pine Key and we relaxed for the evening. Ted started early Saturday morning from Big Pine Key heading to our next campground in Key Largo. It was the worst trip he's ever made...there were wind gusts of 25 to 30 knots blowing directly into his face and this trip was about 60 miles. He couldn't get much acceleration and the trip took about 8 hours. This morning, Sunday, Ted left for Florida City around 7:30. I had to wait until 10am for the office to open and when I got to Florida City, Ted was already there. His trip this morning, because there was no wind, took about three hours or so. Tomorrow, Monday, we are heading to Hollywood...that's about another 40 Miles. So far Ted has logged about 140 miles. I've logged
9 miles on my treadmill...that should count for something. 4/20/09 –
4:28 pm Ted is in great shape for 63 years old. He works out every day. He's been on the road today since 8am and it's past 4pm. He's close because he just called and said he is entering Hollywood. We are staying tonight at TY Park (Topeekeegee Yugnee Park). It's really very pretty and there's lots to do...but we are off tomorrow for a new site; to be determined later. 4/29/09 – 8:39 pm I had a real catastrophe today... Setting up in Yulee, Florida, the bolt on the front landing gear sheared off and my leg was stuck in the down position. We finally got it to release, but I cannot use the truck as we are attached with no way to detach. Have to find a Brunswick dealer locally that can do the repair. Keep your fingers crossed. love da buff
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