Florida Road Trip 2014 - Day 6: Monday, December 1st

Mat, Rick and I ate breakfast at Metro Diner.  Picked up Otis and went to Orange Park to look at train cars. 

Georgia 300:  This beauty is owned by Jack Heard from Fernandino, Florida.  It was used by Presidents Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama.  Rick and I got to ride on it in 2013 when we were on our way home from AAPRCO trip in Napa.  We got on at Reno and then walked back to our own sleeper car.

The Georgia 300 was at the end of the Consist for the Pine Tree Limited to Portland, ME for this fall's AAPRCO Conference.

Dearing undergoing window repair.  We rode on the Dearing from Washington, DC to Chattanooga for the 2012 AARPCO Conference.  It traveled with the sleeper Berlin. Here is Mat, Rick and Otis.

Georgia 300 and Silver Foot.  This Orange Park Station is a really nice and secure place to park your car - - and it is nice to be able to work on your car outside in nice weather.

Then home to watch the movie "No Time For Sergeants" which Rick said is the story of their Dad's military service....getting drug out of the hills of Georgia into the Air Force.  We ate some boiled peanuts 'Country Caviar' from Publix. 

Then, we got to meet Mandy Stone, Rick and Mat's niece (Bill's daughter) and her boyfriend Joey for supper at Cracker Barrel.  Mandy was in art school but got burned out on the drawing so it wasn't fun anymore. She'd like to get into cosemtology school. She's working as a stocker at Walmart now and looking for another job. Joey is working at Barcardi and has been there for three years.  Her is Otis, Joey, Mandy, Mat and Rick. Glad we got to rendezvous with them.

 We take off in the morning, leaving Mat, Macy and Melody to fend for themselves!