No Travel - Fort Pierce, Florida
We woke to foggy weather and a long to-do list.
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| Foggy Fort Pierce City Marina |
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| Ft. Pierce, FL - Christmas Tree |
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| Birds enjoying their morning meal |
The dock master told Clark where he could find a place to recycle the batteries, so we set off for that destination first thing to get rid of them asap. They pay for the lead, so we knew we could recoup some of the money we have been laying out by taking them in ourselves. We had a moment of worry when the man opened the car, saw three batteries, and said, "we can only take two - one for you (Clark) and one for her". What the heck were we supposed to do with the third one. He said, "Come back with the other one on Saturday when we are open again."
Since we planned to leave on Saturday and return the car today, that scenario did not sit well. Fortunately, the worker told his boss we had three, and the manager approved them taking all of the batteries. We got about $116 for all three, so that more than paid for our labor force from the night before. To recycle at this location, they took my name, address, eye color, etc from my driver's license as well as my phone number and a thumb print to add me to their database. They did the same for Clark. If we ever come back, we are now in the system for future recycling.
After saying farewell to the batteries, we decided to make good use of the car and headed over to West Marine then Harbor Freight and lastly Publix to do some shopping. We dropped our goodies off at the boat, grabbed lunch, and then returned the rental car just before the two o-clock deadline. What a busy day and it wasn't half over yet.
When we were home for the summer, we tried to connect with long-time friends, but we could not make it happen. Amazingly, they decided to visit Florida for the Thanksgiving holiday and came to Vero Beach to stay at the house where we had docked when we were there. Our mutual friend told us that Cathy and Franklin would be visiting, so we contacted them and scheduled to get together for dinner tonight.
They came to the boat to get a tour around 4:30 and afterwards drove us over to the restaurant Buoy 12-A for dinner.
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| Cathy and Ev |
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| Ev, Franklin, Cathy, and Clark (note neon "12A" in back) |
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