This is steve safe at home. Left the park about dark when it looked like it was going to sleet/rain....and most everyone had left or were about to. It rained lightly off and on from the time I left till I got to florida. It never amounted to anything except make the road slick. Drove all the way to first florida rest stop, closed my eyes for about two hours, got home about 7:30 am.
I dumped all my gear in the garage and started hosing the mud off. I carried home a lot of orange alabama mud underneath. I have a slightly bent tie rod. It's a ZJ solid bar rod and I can probably straighten it. I didn't notice it driving, so it's not bad. That's my only damage. I didn't wash the jeep or clean up the inside or put the camping gear away....I'm gonna take a long nap.
I had a great time. Thanks again for allowing me to join y'all. I had a camera but I never got around to taking pictures. That's a little unusual for me, but I was having fun and got lazy about pictures. I had expected another day of rides, but I'm not surprised that we wrapped up when the weather started to change. I wouldn't have wanted to pack up wet anyway. And I didn't mind missing another cold night in the tent. The experience was what I was after and I have some better idea of what's next for my jeep.
Everyone was new to me, and it was too much to remember everyone's name the first go around. Thanks to Sam and Mike L for getting me started friday. I spent some time with a few more and spoke to others when we were killing time. Everyone was friendly, I was able to drive home with no damage, only got stuck twice....so it was worth going.