Homer Vs. Kidd

In South Carolina, we hit our first palm tree.

Next stop was Savannah, and Target to get some supplies. I’m not sure if this is just a “south” thing, but it seems that every Target has a Starbucks in it. Which is very cool. After that, we had an exciting adventure in St. Joseph’s emergency room in downtown Savannah (ear infection), but we were back on the road in a few short hours.

After a long day, crashing at a Red Roof Inn outside of Jacksonville was just the ticket.

The biggest problem with traveling with a dog is that it severely limits where you can stay. In terms of the chains, count on Motel 6, Red Roof Inn, and Super 8. You really have to be careful though.. some of these places are real dumps. We happened to luck out. All the places we stayed were actually pretty decent. (note: this is according to me, not Karen. Karen thinks every hotel on earth is a dump. And don’t even get her started on the Super 8 mystery pube, which almost forced us to check out early)

On our final travel day, we stopped and saw the Daytona Motor Speedway (it’s bike week!)

We even saw the Orange County Choppers bike trailer (no OCC celebs, though). And we took a quick stop and got a bite to eat..

And try on sunglasses..

A few hours later, and we arrived at our new home for the next month. The place is really nice, immaculately clean, and has everything we need.




And Evangeline loves drooling and puking all over the new carpet.
This weekend we’re going to try to hit the beach, and see some sites, and next weekend we’re going to a gator farm.
Boca is pretty much exactly what I expected. Everyone has lots of money, most everyone is extremely selfish and rude (with a few notable exceptions, and I should also mention that the people I’m working with are beyond awesome), and everyone wears lots of makeup and expensive looking clothes. In terms of city layout, at least in the area we are in, imagine taking the Berlin Tpke in Newington and making lots of copies of it, using the copies to form large city blocks that are about a mile square. Fill in any empty space with a golf course, and that’s Boca. Every chain in the northeast is represented (and then some), and throw in a few super-targets and super-walmarts into the mix. And TONS of enormous malls.
If you like to shop, this place is your mecca.

Weather is very good! It’s like a nice new england summer, with the exception of the thunderstorms, which we’ve had almost every day here.