An early start as we have a two hour drive to Indian Shores and pick up the Hertz Rental car from Clearwater Beach area. The car collection was quick and we arrived at Adrians place at about 1100 in time for a cup of tea and some pancakes as its Shrove Tuesday yesterday, so one day late. We could not find the sackcloth and ashes for Ash Wednesday and pancakes seemed like a much better bet.
We left Indian Shores about 1230 and with a couple of stops en route for lunch and a comfort break we arrived on the outskirts of Miami just as the traffic was building and without our electronic Sat/Nav we relied on google maps but as usual they are not reliable and you cannot find the roads they say are there which delayed us by about 45 minutes. In the last twenty miles of arriving in to Miami we saw three serious car crashes with some upside down and inside out and more accidents than the rest of our seven weeks in the USA.
The Hotel is in Coconut Grove and is close to most places of interest but tonight we will have a quiet night with some food we purchased earlier.
So tomorrow we will have a light breakfast and finish our packing and head to a nice steak house for a longish lunch before hitting the Airport around 5 pm in time for our flight which leaves just before 8pm, we hope, presuming it hasn't got stuck in the snow in London ,that it.
So this is the last BLOG from this trip as tomorrow we shall be busy, see earlier comments, and when we get home we rush of to help our daughter move house.
We shall probably write in two weeks or so our thoughts on this last trip and so I say to all our readers.Have fun!!
