Friday, January 6, 2012

Three down, Four to Go

We have three long days of driving behind us, having put in 600 miles per day on average.  Four more such days should out us in Stuart, Florida just in time for a final inspection of repairs made prior to closing the purchase, now scheduled for Thursday, January 12. 

Yesterday we left Palm Springs early, realizing we’d lose an hour crossing a time zone, and arrived in Yuma, Arizona where we filled up the gas tank for $3.19/gallon instead of the $4.00/gallon price in California. Our travel friends Gene and Joyce (who we met via the blog 2 years ago, then met in person in Alaska and again in Seattle) are spending this winter in Yuma Foothills, so they joined us at a restaurant right off the freeway and treated us to lunch. It was great to catch up with them again.

We arrived at our friend Hobie’s home just outside Tucson in time for cocktails and dinner, and will spend two nights here so we can have a non-driving day today to take care of business.  We need to print out insurance applications and a variety of other papers, sign documents, and scan/PDF or fax them to various folks in Florida in order to make this all come together – not things we can do while on the road in the truck. It’s wonderful to spend time at Hobie’s lovely desert casita again, to get all our business taken care of, and to have a “down” day from the grueling driving.

Tomorrow we’ll leave early again and head into Texas!

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