We had a great week with Janice, Charlie, Tom and Anne. Delicious meals, both eaten out and eaten in, a couple of fun road trips including a St. Augustine trolley tour, an Ormond Beach art festival (complete with food trucks) and a wonderful afternoon spent in the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona.
The museum had an extensive collection of Cuban art and artifacts donated by (deposed) Cuban president Battista and a mind boggling collection of Coca Cola items given by the Root family whose factories supplied the bottles Coke came in. In addition to bottles of all shapes, sizes and colors there were Coke signs, vending machines through the ages, delivery trucks starting with a modified Ford Model T – everything and anything related the the soft drink. Various family members donated other things as well – a collection of over 1,000 teddy bears, a Lincoln town car and two railroad cars used to ride between summer and winter homes. We spent most of the afternoon at the museum and could probably have spent longer if the staff hadn’t been ready to close up promptly at 5.
Turns out the van actually needs the new radio and it will take a day or two to get. We picked it up from the dealer today since are leaving the condo tomorrow (Sunday) and will need to sleep somewhere. We’ll check into Tomoka State Park in the early afternoon and use that as our “headquarters” until this is finally resolved and we can head west.
The Ultimate Road Trip 