Thursday August 31st 2023

My body is still on Eastern Time so I was up early according to local time. This is my last day in my safe escape zone forty five miles from Florida’s western state line. Hopefully the time zone issue will allow me to get up early tomorrow to prepare for travel. It was a sunny day with seasonal temperatures around 90, but with lots of humidity and little breeze.

I went out scouting for a place to buy gas tomorrow. My motorhome tank is down to about a quarter on the gauge. There are no fuel stations at this Interstate 10 exit. The next exit east has plenty of stations, but it also has lots of traffic and construction. None of the stations were ideal. The ones with easy access had very little room to maneuver at the actual pumps. The bigger stations had difficult access because of construction or would require a u-turn after filling up. The next exit east has a Loves truck stop that I’ve used before. It is over twenty five miles away. I’ll be doing a lot of gauge watching on my way.

While I was out I stopped at Walmart to top off my food supply. This was an older and slightly smaller Walmart. The grocery aisles were narrow and short. A couple of shopping carts or one employee picking an order into blue buckets completely jammed the aisle. Sometimes it was easier to go down a parallel aisle and enter from the other end. I managed to get a few things I needed and a few things I just wanted. It was another one of those shopping while hungry mistakes.

The inside of my RV home is pretty close to ready for travel. I only need to do a few things. The outside tasks I usually do a day ahead remain to be done in the morning. This is probably bad planning. The weather forecast calls for showers all day tomorrow in this area. I should drive out of them as I move east.