Sunday through Wednesday morning was spent at Janes cousins, being wined and dined and generally beinglooked after, breakfast being taken directly fron the tree next door, Grapefruit in abundance.
Two lovely days at Oscar Scherer, just outside Osprey, chilling out after the shakedown run, which was interesting in as much as the GPS decided to takeus on a scenic route rather than the direct one. Will have to find out how to change the parameters on the beastie. The site was
smashing (even expected Ant & Dec to appear at any time) ", the first BBQ pretty damn good! but unfortunately for us it seemed
that every mosquito in Florida lived there. I only got one bite the first night but Jane got millions. I shouldn't have
laughed, it was my turn last night, must have left my legs out of bed, hundreds of the damn things made a meal of me, never had so
many, not even in the Far East!
So there we were cruising down route 41 from Oscar Scherer to the next camp site at Fort Myers Beach, when the engine died, no
warning just died, and before anyone mutters "out of fuel", that it aint. We couldn't have picked a better place to break down,
only two lanes, plenty of traffic, and workmen on the third outer lane. Nothing we could do but ring Allstate Breakdown, they
said they would be with us in 60 to 75 minutes, bloody hell!! In the mean time a very nice bobby in a patrol car covered our rig
from a rear end shunt, and stayed with us until a kindly guy with a lorry and chain pulled us to safety - into the roadworks.
Allstate finally arrived after 2 hours 10 minutes and towed us to a garage, where we waited another 2 hours for the guy to begin
looking for the fault.
warning just died, and before anyone mutters "out of fuel", that it aint. We couldn't have picked a better place to break down,
only two lanes, plenty of traffic, and workmen on the third outer lane. Nothing we could do but ring Allstate Breakdown, they
said they would be with us in 60 to 75 minutes, bloody hell!! In the mean time a very nice bobby in a patrol car covered our rig
from a rear end shunt, and stayed with us until a kindly guy with a lorry and chain pulled us to safety - into the roadworks.
Allstate finally arrived after 2 hours 10 minutes and towed us to a garage, where we waited another 2 hours for the guy to begin
looking for the fault.
Luckily the garage had "a city hookup" (free electricity) - so we had power for the fridge,
tv and computer. It turned out to be the distributor rotor arm, which I thought would have given some warning before it died,
anyways by now it was 18.30, and dark, so we decided to stay the night in his parking area, Judds Autos, highly recommended. When I asked what the damage was, he said "I will write it up in the morning, see you about 08.30". Talk about trusting, can anyone imagine that happening in the UK, we could so easily have driven off without paying.
tv and computer. It turned out to be the distributor rotor arm, which I thought would have given some warning before it died,
anyways by now it was 18.30, and dark, so we decided to stay the night in his parking area, Judds Autos, highly recommended. When I asked what the damage was, he said "I will write it up in the morning, see you about 08.30". Talk about trusting, can anyone imagine that happening in the UK, we could so easily have driven off without paying.
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