We got up early this morning, because we had to go and collect the car from Dollar Rental Car before driving down to Fort Lauderdale. We planned to set off as early as possible... yeah right!
At the Dollar rental desk, everything was going well - we were dealt with quite quickly and we'd been given a free upgrade from an economy car to a mini-van. We signed where we were told to sign and left. As we were leaving, Nikki said "Is it a work van we've been given?", thinking that a mini-van was going to be a Transit van (bless her).
When we got back to our hotel to collect our bags and check out, Nikki noticed that the rental agreement was in her name, but I was gonna be driving. D'oh! I went to ring Dollar, spoke to 3 different people... and got nowhere! So, we had to go back...
Back at Dollar, the lady was really rude. When she put my Drivers License number in wrong, and I mentioned it, she said "oh, close enough!" After Nikki got mad with the staff, we set off on our road-trip... over 3 hours after waking up!
About 2 hours into our road-trip, we decided to stop at Vero Beach, (which is about half way between Orlando and Fort Lauderdale), so we got out, had a wander on the beach then went to get some lunch in Taco Bell. I can't believe we've never been in there before - the food was lush, and the total price was less than $3 - bargain! On the way back to the I95, we stopped in Wal-Mart (they send their love Mum) to get some supplies. We bought some drinks, 2 bananas and a tub of Häagen Dazs. We also got a pair of flip-flops each (my Mum will be so proud!).
We got to Fort Lauderdale at about 6pm tonight, in the middle of a massive thunder storm. We found our hotel (the Flying Cloud), which had NO STAFF - our room key was left in an envelope by the pool. We dumped our bags and went out for a look around.
Fort Lauderdale seemed quite nice. We went and sat on the beach in the rain - and Nikki tried to take some pictures of the lightning. She took about 300 pictures and NOT ONE had any lightning in - brilliant!
I admit, for the first time, I felt like a traveller tonight. Our hotel is weird! Its quite a fair size but its grubby, a bit rough and looks like the motels you see in the movies. Nikki wasn't too keen, so i'm glad we're only here for one night.
We got in the car, drove to the supermarket and got ourselves some frozen meals and a six-pack of beers, before coming back to eat and then go to bed!
Road trips are cool!
2 comments:
Yeah, Hoorah for Wal-Mart my favourite USA store.
If I had known that you would be calling in there ( and even buying some shoes, well,2 pairs of flip flops against my 2 pairs of shoes and 5 t.shirts)then I would have given you a shopping list! M
Have you seen Hostel??????????
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