There was no need to leave the Hotel to early as with a ,say 4 hour drive, we still are unable to access the house until after 1600 hrs and so after breakfast we stayed in our comfortable Hotel room until final check-out time at 11.00.
The car loaded we left the Hotel and plans to use the slower non toll and main highways and use quieter roads where we could stop as required. The trip took initially West and then North followed by West again and about an hour from Punta Gorda we stopped for lunch having pulled of the road on to a farm field entrance and sitting there with both front doors open when along came a ‘Sherriff’ who had slowed down to see if we were OK, nice of him. Eating our lunch we were watched for what seemed like a long time the cows in the field opposite clearly were interested in us and stood and watched for at least twenty minutes before moving on.
We finally arrived around 3pm at the Publix Supermarket where we stopped to by basic rations, bagels, crisps a bottle of wine etc and also two large rib eye steaks and also two even larger pork chops and finally a bag full of shrimp as an appetiser. We arrived at the house at 4pm and pleased to see that there had not been any new houses built on either side of ours which ensures our complete privacy which enables us to swim without distracting swimwear. The electronic door lock had broken and so we had to get the key from the lock box which is also not in good shape but finally we made it in to the house just as the maintenance guy came to change the lock which shortly after he left started to make strange noses which went on for about 3 hours before finally stopping around 8pm after I complained to the agents.
The state of the BBQ last time we arrived in 2020 was poor and so I advised and reminded the agents that it needed to be really clean when we arrived ,only it was not, and so another bollacking and the next day they sent somebody round whilst we were out shopping and did a proper job ( as they say in Zummerset) .
Anyway as I had no BBQ cleaning stuff I took a risk and cooked up the steaks which were excellent as it got dark around 7pm and so in the half light I cooked which was not the easiset to do. To end the evening we watched the final episode of ‘inventing Ana’ on Netflix, worth a watch.
And so to bed
