Ft Lauderdale & Home- Nov 6th

Up very early again (05:10) as we went through yet another time change with us switching to Daylight Savings Time. Kelly made some hotel coffee and, after checking on some additional geocaches, we headed out for a walk on the "Broadwalk"... yes I thought it was Boardwalk..... I was very close:-)

Friend Update: The Orr's "Great Travel Adventure"... they finally made it to Toronto and are about to get on the flight to Vancouver.

For a Sunday morning at 06:30 the place was hopping with walkers,  joggers, runners, bikers in every shape & size. It was busier than last night! We managed to get a couple caches and some DNF's (did not find) and enjoyed the walk in the wind. The sun would pop out every now & then to really warm us up. We stopped for breakfast & another coffee at the Brocheterie along the broadwalk.

Busy place!!

Flowers still in bloom.

Nice little place right on the broadwalk.

The latest naval destroyer was doing sea trials the past few days right off the beach area. It is pretty funky looking compared to conventional ships and is called the USS Zumwalt. You can read about it here

Look a Zumwalt!!

We headed back to the hotel and sat on a nearby bench soaking up the rays and the ambiance of the broadwalk. We think it would be a great RV trip down here for an extended stay with quickie cruises thrown in! We will see.

We showered up and finished packed all our bags (a top up really) and then headed to the airport via a shuttle.  A quick drop of our bags at terminal 3 and we headed through security. It was strait forward and at 11:30 we were through and headed towards the gate.  Lots of time so we grabbed a spot at the very crowded bar and had a nice beverage.

I was watching sports on the big screen TV and it showed a time of 12:52... that's odd because the clocks went back an hour last night??? I asked the lady next to me and her watch said 12:52. What the heck?  Turns out the ship's last day of sailing was not a time change! We spent the day one hour off and checked in just in the nick of time! Sheesh.

We gulped the drinks as the flight boarded and away we went. The plane pushed out of the gate on time at 13:20!  Into DFW at 15:30 local after another one hour time change.  Transfer to our next flight at 17:00 and pushed on schedule for Vancouver. Adios Dallas!

Friend update: The Orr's reported that they made it home... and the Green's are now in Boise hunting down a cat:-)

The flight was pretty routine with some minor turbulence and we landed 10 minutes early @ 19:20.... after yet another two hour time change! My head is spinning as I am pretty sure the Harmony had one too many time changes... not sure what happened to the spare hour!

We left our American Airlines flight and headed down to pick up our bags. Nexus got us through customs immediately and we then watch the bags dispensed onto the carousel. It then stopped... uh oh! Kelly then said the American Airlines Bag tracker on the app showed the bags loaded in Florida but they were now in PHX (Phoenix, AZ).  We filled out the usual paperwork (yes this has happened before) and then cleared immigration.

We met up with our son Kris in the main concourse and got caught up on his world.  Next we headed down to the commuter gates and checked on flights. Our 22:55 departure was still on time so off to Milestones for one last vacation beverage.  The flight ended up being full as we are now traveling on a pass. So... we waited a little bit more until the next one went at 23:55.

On the flight and into Victoria on schedule. Baggage was easy as we had none! Grabbed the car and yep... dead battery. Luckily I flagged down our Flight Attendant and she gave us a jump start. We were finally homeward bound on the last leg of our journey. In the door at 00:35!

Another great trip in the history books.... er I mean Blog  😀

PS: We awoke the next morning and 15 minutes later had a knock on the door for baggage deliver. Now that worked out perfectly!