No alarm clock this AM. Mid-morning we got a call that the shop should have been paid. So we give them about a half hour and then head over and pickup the RV. It is ready, nothing to sign.


About two hours drive to my drop. I had put in plenty of fuel to get to my drop but the shop drove the RV about 20 miles and now it is showing I will only have 20 miles to spare. I don't like only having a gallon to spare, so I back my speed down to 60 mph and I get to my fuel spot with 45 miles to spare.


On coming traffic had a back up a few miles long, that could have easily any spare fuel I had.


Directions to my wash were not clear, but I did finally find the one they were likely talking about. I had a different one pegged, but that one didn't have enough clearance and I had to back out of the area. Once I got to the right one, I had a foot extra clearance, but climbed up on top to make sure. (It's a long way up to that first rung on the latter.)


At the drop it took about a half hour to get inspected and we were done. Almost two hours to spare.


By now it is 2 pm local and we haven't eaten yet. We find a little diner a few miles away. Joseph's Diner. BB had a chicken wrap and I had a Philly, both were really good ... water, not so good. I just can't get used to the water, the smell, the taste or the feel.


We talked about going out to the beach there but didn't have any place in mind. We ended up going to a cemetery for ancestry. This is the first time I have been across the Tampa-St Pete bridge since they made pier's out of the old bridge. The old bridge was hit by a ship in 1980. I'm guessing it was in 1988 that we drove across the new bridge and the remains of the old one was still standing. Also been across it a few times since.


Didn't have the address for the cemetery quite right and ended up in a park. One street too soon, but it's easier down here to take a right and then a U-turn than to cross two lanes of traffic.


All the markers in this cemetery are flat and the markers are close enough together that everyone here must have been cremated. There is a computer at the main building that searches where anyone is buried, and then prints a map of cemetery listing the sections. We found both graves we were looking for and then walked.


We still haven't found work that we want ... or we don't want to leave FL.


We were going to find a place near the rental car place but I found one in Clearwater Beach for a good price. (Didn't know there would be an $18 valet parking charge added) We missed the sunset, but we are right on the beach, with a deck over looking the pool and 'the band.' (It's free)


After sitting down at the bar and grill we went across the street to an Italian place. I had lasagna and was able to eat it all. Both dishes were really good. BB brought her's home and put it in the fridge. Not likely there is a free breakfast tomorrow. But there is an IHOP in the same building.


Not sure what our plans are for tomorrow. Need to have this rental back by noon, then we will likely head north. Maybe to Atlanta or Savannah. By Friday we either need to have work or be heading home. No pairs of work at home either which is one of the reasons we are in no rush to go back. Right now everything is short and would keep us sitting over the weekend so the math doesn't work. The math doesn't work to sit either, but at least there is no damage risk in sitting.