April 6, 2017 - Thursday

The 90 degree temperature's and humidity broke. (Thank goodness!) It rained in the morning and the temp dropped to the comfortable 80's. We decided to golf instead of the beach. We got a 2:30 tee time, so we decided to do some sight-seeing and shopping earlier. Well we missed the entrance to a CVS in a location we were not familiar with, so we saw an opening in the road & made a u-turn, which are legal in Florida. All of a sudden there is a State Tropper car behind us with the lights blinking for us to pull over....when he came to the window, Richard asked what the problem was (we thought maybe we had a light out), boy were we wrong...he said we made an illegal turn. We said we were told u-turns are legal in FL. He said not on that road...huh!!! But we knew not to argue with him. He asked for Richard's drivers license & proof of insurance. I realized the insurance card was back in the motorhome which we told him. Result....we got a $163.00 ticket for a "civil infraction" and a warning citation for not having the insurance card in the car! Welcome to Florida!!! Richard said he wasn't going to let this ruin his golf game. So we did have a good time golfing, but we still didn't think we should have got that ticket!!