We spent an extra day on town to do three things: go to a gigantic Saturday flea market off of I-95, go to St. Augustine's new destillery and eat at an English pub on Route 1 near the airport.
The flea market was your typical flea market with the zillion things you've never imagined you'd ever see in your life. It was also 96 degrees under the never ending tent! The series of conjoined tents have an east and a west entrance. By the time we exited the west end we drove directly to our Casita, turned the AC to high and rehydrated our lives again.
Once recuperated from the heat, we made our way to the distillery. This is a new attraction in town. They've only been open for a year. So far, they only distill vodka and gin, but are aging rum and bourbon as well. The tour is free and very instructive.
The distillery utilizes local farmers to supply their grain and, as part of their sustainability efforts, recycle their mash by-product to the farmers for feed and soil fertilization. At the end of the tour, one can sample the gin and the vodka.
After the tour, and in great need of food, we made our way to King's English pub. Here we discovered that in England, or in an English pub, when invited to a "pint" it means a beer and if invited, one is then obligated to a "round" which means the obligation to invite the other person to another beer. The proverbial expression "the more, the merrier," stems from the tradtional "round" to reciprocate each invite.
Tomorrow, we begin our north bound trek, making a couple of stops here and there.
Below are pictures of the pub and of St. Augustine.