Driving to the Emerald Princess, second day

Driving from Clermont to Ft. Lauderdale

We ate our free breakfast at the hotel and headed south. The weather was better. Stopped for lunch, as always, in Jupiter and continued on to the the Hampton Inn in Hollywood, near the cruise dock and the airport. We got there around 3:00 P.M. -- 253 miles. The total driving distance from home was 707 miles.

The hotel is busy but nice and in pretty good condition for an airport hotel. We arranged for our transfer to the ship in the morning and parking in the hotel lot while we are on the cruise. It was very warm and humid in Ft. Lauderdale with rain off and on.