Here's a quick rundown with lousy pictures (what can I say, Kay didn't take them):
First, on the way there I got lost in downtown JAX - so what else is new. I had a 20 minute tour of the river front area including a square block of homeless camps and a volunteer cleanup activity about a block away. It's evidently difficult for the GPS to simply say "cross the Acosta bridge" but somehow on about the 4th try I made it and met up with Eric and Dennis.
Dennis had a lovely back road tour laid out so off we went and enjoyed it immensely. Except...
About halfway along, Eric forgot to cancel his turn signal. So I gave him the open-close finger-thumb signal which I shortly realized I hadn't explained to him that this is the "forgot to cancel your turn signal" signal. Eric, thinking I was having a problem, got Dennis's attention and we all pulled over. After the explanation and apology for not telling him, we started our cars. Except for Eric, whose battery had gone dead in spite of the battery being nearly new and a new alternator having just been installed. So we jumped it (almost another story in itself) and proceeded to the restaurant in Lake City.
Dennis had his tools aboard so Eric was able to extract the battery which we delivered to a nearby auto parts store to be recharged, and went back to the Halpatter restaurant to have good food, good beer and lively discussions of all sorts of topics. Eric made it home under Dennis's watchful eye.
It was cold going up, but tolerable on the return trip. roughly 225 miles for me - more and less for the others.
Here are the three photos I took:
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