Haircut, and Another Beach

After lounging around most of the morning, we went for a drive to Marathon. Josie needed a haircut and there was a beach we were told about and wanted to check out. The first place we stopped for Josie's haircut had moved to a new location. The problem is that our GPS didn't have the new location. This is the 2nd hair salon that we have tried to find that has moved or gone out of business in this town. We had the name of another place that wasn't even in the GPS, so Josie called the woman at work that gave her the name to find out where it was located. On the way there, we passed a Beall's Outlet store that we went into. That was the end of any time to spend on the beach. While Josie walked around there, I went next door to an Office Depot and spent a lot of time going through that store. We escaped with just a bathing suit for Josie. We also stopped to eat lunch in town.

We continued on and found the salon - closed on Monday. That will have to be a return trip, probably today. Anyway, we found the nice beach that we were told about - Sombrero Beach - in Marathon. It was, we thought, much nicer than the beach we were on in Bahia Honda State Park - and this beach is free. It had a beautiful park area just behind the beach:

where there are picnic areas, bathhouses, brick walkways, etc.

The sandy beach wasn't bad either:

Although we didn't have a lot of time left in the day to sit and enjoy the sun and sand, Josie at least got her feet wet in the Atlantic:

This will definitely be the beach we visit next time as it is very nice and, again, it's free.

It has been pretty windy here the last couple days. There have been some serious storms north of us, but we have been lucky so far. The forecast calls for some possible storms today and tomorrow, so we'll wait and see. We still need to go back to Marathon for Josie's haircut, but there are chores to do here, like laundry, that preclude our going to the beach today.

It's the last day before work again which is not very exciting. New calculations with the current price of fuel have added a couple hundred dollars to our planned journey back to WY, so we are nervous about that. We're hoping for some stability in the prices. I'm also looking into towing the Jeep behind the fifth wheel, which is legal in most states. We'll have to see what the costs are for that. If it costs less to provide all the hookups and equipment required for that vs buying gas to drive it, we may consider it. That's about it for now...