Monday April 4th 2016

Today was a travel day. I got up as soon as I woke this morning; no watching TV in bed today. I made steady progress with all the remaining travel prep tasks and got underway about 11:30. I didn’t want to get to early a start since I couldn’t check in until 2PM at the Daytona Beach Speedway KOA. It was a good day for traveling. There wasn’t a lot of wind and the sun was shining. The high temperature for the day was about 80.
Driving up Interstate 4 through Orlando is not fun. They are expanding large sections of the highway. When completed in a few years, the road will have a second set of lanes for through traffic. These new lanes will have variable toll collection. I’ve driven on similar systems in Baltimore and Washington DC. Depending on the volume of traffic you could pay a little or pay a lot. The whole Orlando area is turning into toll road city. Most of the east west highways and the loop roads are already toll roads. You really can not survive with out a toll transponder and a toll account. Right now the system is not compatible with the EZPass system in the northeast, so I had to get a SunPass transponder  for the SUV.
When I came down through Orlando in December, I don’t remember any of the sights along the way. All I remember is the traffic. The same thing happened today. I remember the road and the vehicles around me, but not any of the buildings or intersections. This isn’t my normal behavior. Usually, I am observant of the area. Driving through Orlando in the Motorhome is just to intense for sight seeing. I drove through the city in the car a couple of times this winter and didn’t have any problems seeing the sights. There’s nothing special to see.

Site 170 at Daytona Speedway KOA.

I checked in to the KOA a little after 2PM. I have a corner site in the middle of the park. The sites are laid out in an odd pattern. To get into this site you need to drive across the driveway to the one next to it. The campground is located about a mile from the Daytona Motor Speedway. The down side is that it is within hearing distance of Interstate 95.
I’ll be here for two nights. Tomorrow I’ll see what the area has to offer. If there are more things to see than I have time, I’ll stop in the area on a future trip. That’s the nice thing about this Rambling Road Trip; I know I can return.