Heading North

We left Sarasota on March 4 and headed north. We stopped at Lazy Days again to meet with our salesman, look at our intended RV, and while there we attended a lecture on a Caravan to Mexico. We signed up with Fantasy RV Tours and are looking forward to our Mexican trip next January. We spent the night at a friend's house in Melbourne e, FL and used her clothes washing machine. We then headed north to Jacksonville where we spent the night at a Walmart and had dinner with friends and watched the Academy Awards.

Getting ready to leave on Monday, I noticed that the magnetic lights that I had on the car were not working reliably. These are the lights that attach to the roof so that people behind can tell if we are stopping or turning. So we stopped at an RV place near Jacksonville where they found that one of the bulbs was burned out. They had a replacement.

When I ran the cable from the back of the car through the SUV and under the hood, I must have made the slack too short. As a result it pulled out of the RV and at some point it was dragging on the road and broke off. We knew it because a tractor trailer kept signaling us.

We called Good Sams Club and got the name of another dealer, this time in Brunswick, GA. They were able to replace the entire light arrangement with permanent lights. There is now a separate circuit in the SUV with a receptacle at the front of the car that connects to a wire that connects to the receptacle in the RV. And we paid another $500. The delay made us too late to have dinner with a friend in Charleston, SC so we pulled into a campsite in Georgia.

The next morning we left late and drove to a consulting assignment north of Charleston, SC. We unhooked the car and Helen drove to Myrtle Beach, SC where my brother lives. I did my work and followed with the dog. We stayed in Myrtle Beach for three nights, right on the beach. We stopped at Camping World to get an oil change and then headed north on I-95.

We got as far as Emporia and found a Walmart. We stayed there along with about 10 other RVs. Near us was an RV from Quebec. The family could only speak French.
We left on our last day, March 10.