5/25/18 Friday of Memorial Day Weekend: We had always planned to rent a car while in Delaware City, thinking we would go to Costco to buy oil for Island Girl. Hmmmm – she got her oil rejuvenated back in Solomons, so we don’t need to do that anymore. But – we could use more coffee, and nuts and other things that are less expensive at Costco than other places… including a restock of the liquor cabinet. We asked the Google if Costco sells liquor in Delaware, and – that is affirmative. We reserved a car with Enterprise, because they will pick you up and drop you off. That is, if they have the manpower. We reserved the car for 10:00. We’re leaving early tomorrow morning, so our 24 hour rental will actually end this evening after about 7 hours. They can’t come pick us up until 1:00. Really!? That makes our rental about 4 hours? There are some Ubers in the area, so that would get us started earlier. But – our most generous AGLCA Harbor Host, Foster, came and picked us up at 9:30. What a sweetheart! While on our 15 minute ride to the car rental store, we asked him what sights we should see. He highly recommended going to Philadelphia. It’s only a 45 minute drive or so. Cool! We had originally thrown around the idea of taking Island Girl up to Philly. But, the weather is looking like it might be favorable for an ocean adventure early next week, (more about that later), so we don’t want to take 3 days to cruise up the Delaware River and back. So lets drive up and see Philly. But uh-oh…. Navigator has not researched and made any sort of plan for going there. EEEK! It will be ‘Seat of pants adventure time’ – I’m not always very good at that!
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