No work today, RV is still in the shop. Finally a before noon I called the shop, they should get it in this after noon.

We only had the first rental car reserved for one day so we drove down to near Tampa and got a second rental car. Near Tampa, I've spent hours tonight trying to find out what city it was in and can't. The address it uses is Tampa.

Before we picked up the car we stopped at Sweet Tomatoe's Salad Buffet. Interesting, you come in and grab a tray and make your salad, then you pay, then you can go and get other items. Five kinds of lettuce, two sides, 20-30 foot salad bar. Six kinds of soup, three pasta's, two kinds of baked potatoes, breads, more than enough.

No issues with picking up the rental, fueled and returned the original car. Then drove up to the shop to check on it. Still not ready, they hoped it would be yet today. Usually dispatch pulls us off after an hour down time, now it's been over a day. No down time, we just don't want to head back to the snow in MN.

With a couple hours to kill, we went to the Circle B Bar Ranch, it's a nature park. The guy at the desk said if I didn't see an alligator I could get my money back ... (it's a free park.)

I did see my first alligator ... it was mostly in the water but I guessed it to be about 2-3 feet long. Lots of birds, a few turtles. But we did not go out prepared. No water, no cap, no food. After we were a ways out we realized what we had done and took the 'shortest' route, about 2-1/2 miles. Someone stopped and told us there were lots of alligators out today ... on the trail we had planned on going on, but didn't.

Just as well, it took us most of two hours with stops and I wanted to call the shop before close of business today. As we got to the car they called me. More or less a fluke warning ... but they still want to be paid. Email didn't work, fax was busy. I finally stopped and picked up a copy of the bill and we 'tiny scanned' it and sent it to dispatch. Dispatch still doesn't understand why they can't just charge warranty. Neither do I.

Hopefully it does not take more than a couple of hours tomorrow AM so we can finally get it delivered.

Website for the motel wasn't working, kept saying the rooms we wanted were no longer available. They shouldn't show if they aren't available. Price went from $47 to $62 before we finally got it to work. Back at the same place we were last night, Sleep Inn.

When we were going to leave to eat the door wouldn't latch, until we had all our stuff out. Then it latched ... until we brought our stuff back in and were going to leave. We ended up switching rooms.

Meal was at Five Guys a mile or so away.

Saw on the map that there is a Safari Wilderness Ranch about 10 miles away. $90 each so we likely won't go, but it looks interesting. Oh, it is $180 each if you want to ride a camel through the safari instead of riding in the bus.

Some work has come and gone on our board, but we aren't going to take anything until this one is delivered. One going to ND that was on and gone a few days ago is back. Not sure if it wasn't ready or the driver was a no show.