Vacation!

On Wednesday this past week we left for Palm Beach. And it wasn’t an uneventful trip.
Within 10 minutes of leaving home the Mercedes R350 started acting up, so we dropped it at the Mercedes dealer and went to the Hertz dealer, and got a Jeep Grand Cherokee. It was nice, but thank goodness it’s going back to Hertz today.
Anyway, we drove down to Palm Beach in about 3 hours, and stayed at a nice hotel along the beach. The beach was really rough and couldn’t really be swum (swimmed? Swam? I dunno) in, but there was a huge pool, so that worked out ok. Then on Friday we left for home, and had several stops along the way, first of which was a Reningers flea market (it’s almost a chain of flea markets, with a few here and there). While we were there I got a Technics SU-v75, along with the matching tuner (sounds pretty good on the Mission 770s!). Then we got lost and somehow ended up on Merritt island, so we visited some family while we were over there. Then, after 2 hours of visiting, we went on our way and found a manatee viewing point that still had tons of manatees out! We hung out there for half an hour, watching the manatees. Then, we got lost again and went on a nature drive, but we forgot that we needed gas so we almost got stuck out there. After that, it was a pretty uneventful drive home, and we got there around 9:30. We turned a 3 hour drive into a 9 hour adventure!
All in all, it was a nice trip, and we had a lot of fun, and brought some equipment back as well. And, if anyone is in the area, I recommend finding this place, called MRAM Engineering Plus. It is like a used electronics store, and I got the Technics at their flea market location. We are gonna try to go at some point in the future, and I am looking forward to it.
Micah