Road trip -- days 3 & 4

Sea grape growing along the beach.


The Atlantic Ocean/beach.

Left Gainsville and headed toward the Orlando area -- Sweetie's nephew lives in Apopka. We met with him and his sons for lunch and had a wonderful visit. Haven't seen the nephew in 20 years -- had never seen his sons.

After we left there we saw the first citrus groves -- expected to see more of the groves -- like what we've always seen in CA. We passed one grove where all the trees were pruned in squares.

That really looked strange.

We stopped several times to admire the ocean but finally made it to Vero Beach where we decided to spend the night. We had a lovely motel and they fixed us a great breakfast the next morning. Then we left for the last 1-1/2 hour of drive time before we reached our destination, West Palm Beach, Florida.