They spent a good night there. The girl asked the guest what was happening with the RV and he told her that Merrill Lynch was working on it and they would be able to come back later to retrieve it. The couple got into the SUV and headed to Florida. The girl had never been on a bridge so large before and was very excited as well as nervous. Everything was so green and beautiful.
The couple drove into Florida and made it to Defuniak Springs. They stayed overnight. Their money was again getting meager at this point. The girl wanted to keep driving and had made it past Pensacola where the guest had originally said he wanted to stay. He had fallen asleep in the back of the SUV and she thought if she kept driving they could drive the entire way to Saint Augustine. It wasn’t that far on the map and since she was doing all the driving she couldn’t think why it would matter to the guest if they kept driving.
When they got outside Defuniak Springs he told her to pull off because they could see motel/hotel signs. She knew the money was getting low and didn’t want to stay. She finally gave in and they stayed for the night.
This was the night she really experienced how humid it was in Florida. She washed their clothes in the sink and hung them to dry, something she had done a lot since the beginning of this trip. By the morning everything was still fairly wet. This made her realize how humid it really was.
The next morning they were back on the road and headed to Saint Augustine. They drove to Tallahassee and stopped at the Flying J there. The guest told the girl that he would try calling his friend to come pick them up. He said that they barely had the money to get to the island so it would be better to have PH come pick them up.
The girl was again starting to worry. She knew they didn’t have much money so she thought this was a good idea. The guest kept trying to call PH originally to no avail. Then he finally got in touch with him. He told them to stay there and he would come get them later in the evening because he was still at work. The guest convinced the girl that they should eat and spent most of their money on playing video games.
By nightfall they had not yet seen nor heard from PH. The girl knew this was a bleak situation. They didn’t have enough gas to head on and they also didn’t have money to eat or stay anywhere with.
The couple was again back to sleeping in the SUV in the parking lot of the Flying J. After 2 days of doing this, the couple got lucky. They met a man that needed to get to a doctor. He was a driver and needed to be cleared before he could move on. The couple offered to give him a ride into town to the doctor. In return the driver bought them lunch and gave them cash. The girl never did find out exactly what the guest had told the driver but it meant they could move on.
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