First Leg

Getting out of SRQ was just about as hellish as I could handle. I had decided last minute to buy a topper for the truck to keep everything dry, secure, and locked down. Jonathan made a good point about parking in New Orleans or any big city for that matter, and that is unsecured stuff is subject to theft. So I shopped around and the cheapest by far was a used aluminum one in Pinellas Park. I quickly unpacked everything from the truck, drove to Pinellas, bought the topper, drove back to SRQ and re-loaded everything. Not the most stress free day by far. But at lest now everything is much easier to just stuff into crevasses and is slightly more difficult to steal.

I made to Gainesville by 21:50 and had dinner at Jennifer and Ricks house and then shot over to Mike and Ian's house to sleep there. Now I am off to Tallahassee.