We were up bright and early Sunday morning in order to get Sarah to Tampa International Airport for her return flight home. We left at 5 am and took Hwy 64 west over to I-75 and then onto I-275 and over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge to the airport. Traffic was very light so we made good time. Chris picked us both up a Starbucks coffee and muffin for the drive back to Wauchula. We were on our way home by 7 am and made it back in time for pickleball. Our thanks to Jim and Jane for kindly offering to look after Buddy for us overnight. It made the trip into Tampa much easier.
Chris and I spent almost four hours fossil hunting in Peace River yesterday afternoon. It was our best day so far. In the photos, the largest item you can see in the upper left corner is the tooth of an adult wooly mammoth. Next to it, in the centre, is what we suspect is the jaw bone of a baby wooly mammoth with one tooth still in place. Another partial mammoth tooth on the left below the large tooth. The remaining items are a variety of shark teeth, some fossilized turtle shell, as well as what I think is a claw, perhaps from a turtle. 
We had no idea exactly what we had until Jane had a good look at our haul this morning. We were really hoping to find a spear or arrow head but I think some wooly mammoth remains rank right up there as well! I'll have to do a little online research to confirm.
Pickleball for me this morning while Chris cleaned up the inside of the motorhome. She's so good to me! Then back to the RV to get things packed and ready for our drive into Lazydays. We were on the road out of Thousand Trails by noon and pulled into Lazydays at 2 pm. Our rig is ready for a 3 day stay to repair a superficial scratch on the driver's side which I caused last summer at Fanshawe Conservation in London, Ontario.
We plan to overnight at Lazydays tonight. Tomorrow, we will spend cycling and beachcombing at Fort Desoto, before heading back to Wauchula tomorrow afternoon. We will spend 3 days in a park model home while our Bounder is repaired.
We did a little shopping in Brandon this afternoon. Given the recent hard drive crash on my Toshiba laptop, I am a little more diligent about backing up our data. To this end, we purchased a Western Digital 250 GB USB hard drive. It is larger than we will need...for now. The nice thing about this USB hard drive is that it draws its power from the laptop, so there is no external power supply and therefore it takes up less space. Very important in an RV where space is limited.
When we got back to our RV, I cranked up the generator and fired up our two air conditioners. Looks like the rear a/c has gone out now. Front one works fine but the rear one won't come on. Breakers are all okay, so not sure if we lost the capacitor on it or not. Something else for Lazydays to check out while it is in the shop.
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