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Day 6

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Today we decided to take a short drive down US41 to Fort Myers to the Edison-Ford Winter Estates. TomTom was already primed from the Tyre program on the laptop at home to have all the addresses we would need, apartment resorts and hotels in Key West and Fort Myers Beach. Plus the EFWE and the Triumph and HD shops in Fort Myers. The lady at Alamo chuckled when we called TomTom "satnav" as it is apparently geepee-ess or I guess (see what I did there?) GPS. Anyway, the Mustang (aka Sally) is a thirsty beast and manages only 24mpg at these around town tiddling along speeds.  She needed a drink of something called regular. There seemed to be three varieties of unleaded at Sunoco. The pump wanted a zip code and refused the one here at the village. Having to pre-pay for petrol never happens at home. I decided to spend $20 and that took the gauge to half and the estimated mileage from 72 to 198. Maybe try a different station next time? On the way home we have to return the car full a...