Well, no sightseeing again today! It has been raining since last night and most of today.
It occurred to us today that we hadn't taken any photos of our campsite since we got here, so Mike took some photos this afternoon after it had quit raining. The photos are NOT representative of what our campsite looked like our first few days here.
According to the local news we had almost 2" of rain yesterday and about 1½" today. The rain came so hard and fast, the ground couldn't absorb it fast enough. The ladies in the office said that the last time it was like this was in 2004 & 2005 when they had hurricanes come through the area.
Tinker has was NOT been very happy the last couple of days. The water is so deep, about 4"-5", and cold, Tinker doesn't like walking through it. So Mike has been carrying him from the RV up to the grass by the park office where the ground is higher and not under water.
We are leaving Fort Myers on Wednesday, so tomorrow will be our only day to go to the Edison & Ford estates. So we will be trying to get all of our sightseeing done in one day.
Just so that today wasn't a total waste, I went to the laundromat here today and did get our clothes washed.
This morning the guys from Blackfin Welding came to repair the crack in our RV steps. They removed the steps from the RV in order to repair the crack. They did a good job and it cost us $50.
This afternoon we drove back up to Camping World to buy new step covers and a sewer fitting. We got gas in the Vue at a Pilot station and paid $2.599 a gallon.
After leaving Camping World we drove over to the Tice area to try and find the area where Mike's grandparents lived in 1930. They lived in an area called Alabama Grove on Alabama Terrace. We found a brick and concrete marker for Alabama Grove, but we didn't find Alabama Terrace. According to the 1930 census they lived near New York Drive (which we found) in the Alabama Grove section.
We did see some nice houses in that area that dated back to the 1920's & 1930's.
Before going back to the RV, we drove through the historic downtown of Fort Myers. The streets in the historic are were paved with gray and red bricks. The street lights were reproductions of gas-lit street lights from the early 1900's.
Some of the buildings we saw dated back to the 1910's and were quite impressive.
One of the main roads that we have been traveling on has been McGregor Boulevard. It is a beautiful street that is line with very tall and stately royal palm trees. I took a photo of McGregor Blvd near the Thomas Edison & Henry Ford winter estates. It's been raining nearly every afternoon since we got here and hope to be able to tour the Edison & Ford estates tomorrow.
