Day 12 Sunday Oct 23 Lake Mary to Crawfordville, FL

As the GatorMog ends we begin the third leg of our journey.  Leg one was from Ohio to Florida.  Leg two, the Florida segments: MogSouth gathering and Mirror Lake car show, then the GatorMog tour of Florida.  Finally leg three is our journey from Florida to Arizona and our winter accommodations.  The posts these next few days will be much shorter, but continue the record of our trip and the things we see and do. 

With final hugs and goodbyes in Lake Mary, FL, our friends, both old and new, from all over the east departed for home.  We pulled out about 8:30 to head west. 

It was a nice 90 minute run to The Villages to see an old friend we have not seen for, we estimate, some 40 years.  Jon and Becky Winfield.  Jon was a high school and college mate, and fellow broadcaster.  He worked at WJW-TV in Cleveland while I worked in small radio stations in northern Ohio.  It was great to see them both again, in good health and enjoying their retired life in Florida.  We enjoyed lunch and a couple of hours of reminiscing and catching up.  Sadly we needed to return to the highways to keep a schedule.  It certainly won't be 40 years before we see them again.

Gary, Sally, Becky and Jon.

Then it was an almost a five hour run to Crawfordville, FL, up in the big bend area of the Florida panhandle, and just south of Tallahassee.  From here we will head west. 

Our first order of business was to clean up the car a bit, after a thousand miles in Florida since the car show.  Then a pizza delivered to our room and another early night.