Head Southwest for the west Coast of Florida

The usual start for the day with breakfast provided by the Hotel, a limited choice, but more than sufficient. We left the Hotel around 10.30 and picked up some fuel with the usual issues about the machines not accepting Credit Cards without a USA Zip Code and so the lady said how much do u want to spend , and I said I am not sure but knowing that fuel is so much cheaper here I said $25.00. Actually the car was full with $ 23.75  which is amazing as we have driven several hundred miles all for about £ 18.00, would cost three times that in UK.
We took took the main roads which was planned as avoiding the Motorways takes a long time but still it took us nearly 5.5 hours to arrive in Sarasota after brief stop for a burger in Wendy's, which was rubbish and will not be repeated. As usual when you arrive at the Hotel its always the other side of a main dual carriageway and so working around the roads and then two U turns when everybody is in a hurry to get home was not so easy.

Homewood Suites Sarasota

We checked in to the Hotel and had a nice cup of tea and although the ‘social’ was on that night the food was pizza which is a bit of a no no for Noel and so we had a glass of wine in the room and a very nice smoked salmon salad and then watched TV for a while.
The photos we had purchased were included in a PowerPoint presentation and so not the easiest to extract just the photos and so many hours have already been spent getting them ready for upload.
And so to bed .