Disembarkation & Drive Back to Bettendorf

             Monday, 29 Sep 2014 – We awoke to our alarm at 6:45 AM.  After breakfast, we vacated our cabin and waited in the Club Fusion with Jim and Kim until our group was called to disembark.  When that time came, we stood in the usual long line to get through customs, though it moved quickly and we were outside waiting for our shuttle by about 9:15.  Then, waiting was the bad part, standing in the hot Florida sun for what seemed like forever.

After finally being picked up and taken to our motel, we loaded our luggage and were



Waiting for Hotel Shuttle

on the road by about 10:10 AM.  We made a few pit stops before stopping for the night about 11:15 PM in Dalton, Georgia at the same motel where we had stayed on our way to Ft. Lauderdale.
          The following morning we were on the road by 9:20 AM.  We stopped in Chattanooga, TN, for breakfast and later in Clarksville, TN, to buy fruit at a Sam’s Club for the trip home.  Somehow, we missed an exit in Illinois and rather than make a U-turn as directed by our navigator, Miss Garmin, we took a two-lane highway to get back on our route.  Although the road was paved, for a few miles we followed a farm vehicle that was kicking up a lot of dust from the road shoulder.  The dust on the windows was so thick that Jesse and Jim spent several minutes cleaning off the accumulated gunk when we stopped for dinner at a Cracker Barrel in Lincoln, IL.  After dropping off Jim and Kim, we were home by 10:45 PM, tired from the long drive.

Signing off at the end of another lovely and relaxing cruise!