Day 154 – Sunday 12/9/18

Tripometer –  16,128 mi

Gas Gauge –  1276.67 gal

Location – Long Point Park and Campground, Melbourne Beach, FL

Lodging – $35

Cans of OFF – 4

We woke this morning to a cold, windy and overcast day. The weather forecast calls for rain most of the afternoon and a high of about 68 degrees. While checking the weather forecast we noted that though we had intermittent rain in the forecast, the top end of the storm was dumping snow on a fair bit of the eastern seaboard. HA! With yesterday’s beautiful day behind us we decided that today we could with good conscience spend the afternoon inside watching the Ravens Game. Kelly made a few calls around Vero Beach to find a sports bar that would be showing the Ravens game and we headed off around noon leaving Ranger in the air conditioned trailer. (It’s high time this dog had a down day.)

Kelly hasn’t had intermittent queasiness in several days meaning there may be an end to the gastrointestinal trauma that we’ve been experiencing, but again Paul spent most of the day grumbling about his stomach. That made the choice of who was designated driver today very easy.

The Riverside Café turned out to be a really nice bar and restaurant located on the inland side of the island in Vero Beach. As we entered we noticed a fantastic, mostly seafood Sunday brunch laid out in the main portion of the restaurant. We were too late to partake of the buffet but noted it for next weekend. We’re coming back for that spread! After waiting no insignificant amount of time for a table, we spent the afternoon enjoying the truly excellent food and drinks while watching the Ravens ultimately lose in overtime.

While enjoying the game Kelly returned to the car to grab a dose of antacid and came back to the table with news that a car parked near the entrance had Maryland tags with a tag surround from Jones Junction in Bel Air. We must have spent the next half hour identifying the likely culprits in the bar. There was a group of three people seated right next to us who were cheering vigorously for the Ravens so we decided to ask them if they were the owners. They weren’t; however, after a quick back and forth it not only turns out that they were from Harford County but the gentleman of the party was the brother of a girl that Paul went all the way through grade and high schools with and had been to several of Paul’s birthday parties in early grade school. The world really is THAT SMALL.

Ranger was very well rested when we got home from the bar this evening and spared no expense telling us how happy he was to see us. He’s adapted quite well to being left alone in the trailer for a few hours and we no longer worry about leaving him when we go out for an afternoon. The rest of the evening was quiet as Paul continued the quest of getting caught up with the blog and Kelly watched some TV in the trailer.