Driving a Car

Driving all the way from Port Charlotte to Plant City yesterday morning and then down to Hollywood last night was not really my idea of fun. On the other hand, since we don’t own a car and I don’t drive in Costa Rica, it’s kind of interesting to be on the road. Our incredible friends Gail and Tony, who live in Hollywood, actually lent us one of their cars to use for our entire 2 week trip! How great is that? What a huge savings not to have to rent a car this trip. Thanks Gail and Tony! Of course we always stay with them at their house when we’re there, too. Gail and I are the absolute best of friends and always have tons to catch up on, even though we talk regularly on Instant Messenger. There’s finally an airline with a flight from San Jose to Ft Lauderdale – Spirit – so for the first time we were able to fly there instead of going through all the crap at the Miami airport, which I hate. Gail picked us up at the airport and we visited with them for a couple days then took off for Port Charlotte. Now we’re back to visit some more before going home.