By now you will have gathered that there is something about this car, this journey etc, that fate is clearly playing a part.
Well it played another card today. Before departing Bonita Springs, I went with my friend to try and purchase something from Best Buy, although out of luck, as we drove back, I spotted a car park full of Vettes, so having said my goodbyes to my friends, I returned to find the largest Corvette show I have ever attended!
There were around 180 cars, with perhaps 80% being Corvettes. This was the annual Vette Together charity show and I strolled around in awe as
there were many models I'd never even seen before and some I didn't know existed!
Naturally my eye spotted an Atomic in the pack and I wandered over to talk to the owner of the Z06. Randy was very interested to hear my story and was keen to see my car and compare notes. It transpired, his was the only AO in the area,
so we made a promise, I'll not bring mine back to the Fort Myers area, if he doesn't bring his to England, so they can both remain unique!
I met many other wonderful people, who if any are reading this, it was great to
meet you and share stories and thank you for making me so welcome!
Naturally I had to purchase some C6 & 'Jake' items from Jim & Jan at Custom
Corvette Accessories, who again made me very welcome and we made plans to meet at Laguna Seca in 2008 when the Driving Adventures tour visits the
ALMS race - already looking forward to that!
With a 5-hour drive ahead, I had to make an exit earlier than I would have liked,
but I hope the rest of the show went of well and raised a lot of money for a
great cause.
So off I set down 41. Two bizarre things occurred. Firstly my wife called from England to tell me we'd had 2 inches of snow which
is rare and was unpredicted...and there was I cruising with an air temp of 85!
We are all used to animals in the road, back home we have the odd fox or badger as a rare sight, but today I came across something I guarantee I'd
never see back home, an Alligator crossing the road!
I wish I'd had the chance to take a photo, but I was too concerned it may get hit and was busy alerting the on coming traffic to its presence.
As I continued my journey I spotted another rare sight to me, two airships seemingly chasing each other around the sky. I pondered their activity for some time before it came to me, they were filming above the final NASCAR round in Homestead!
I failed to make Key West by sunset, but still managed to get some nice shots, before concluding today's 300 miles with a cruise down Duval.
In a little over 24 hours, I am already just shy of equalling the car's previous six
month total mileage, quite simply, it's the perfect way to bond with something that is much more than just a car to me.
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