530 miles via FL 80, FL 29, US 27, I-4, I-95, US 17 and I-526 with refueling stops in LaBelle FL and Kingsland GA and lunch in Sanford FL. Cumulative miles: 530.
My previous trips all originated in Ft Myers FL, my home. But this time I closed up the RV on Tuesday and stayed with Marlene until Friday morning, so the trip originated from her home in Lehigh Acres FL.
The trip was uneventful through Florida but it started raining when I reached GA and rained on-and-off the rest of the way. At times the rain was heavy and that slowed me down. And, as usual, traffic through Orlando was very heavy. The worst delay, however, was about 20 miles short of my destination in Charleston when I was stopped by an accident on US 17. The road was closed for about 30 minutes while the fire department doused a burning overturned car.
The Toyota ran well but one side of the front end again came loose – a problem which I will now have to wait until October to correct. And I traveled without two hubcaps. The replacement hubcaps that I had ordered did not fit and I had to return them and the replacements did not arrive in time. I will try to find two used hubcaps, but will travel without them unless I can find good, cheap used ones.
Speaking of replacing hubcaps… I ordered them through Amazon and returned them via Kohls which serves as agent for Amazon returns. I was initially impressed with the efficiency of that operation – I simply handed them the package, showed the clerk the QR code that Amazon had emailed to me authorizing the return and was handed a receipt. But 3 days later the very same package was delivered to my RV. Yes, my “return” was returned to me! For the first time in my life I had to return a package twice. Apparently the Kohls clerk was so efficient that she skipped the step where a return address was afixed to the package.