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Daytona Beach Descriptive Essay

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Daytona Beach On the morning of June 17, 2016, I woke up with a smile on my face like it was Christmas morning. I launched myself out of bed to take a quick shower before I was to meet my friends to leave for Daytona Florida. We planned this trip months ahead of time when we found out there was a truck meet on the weekend of June 18th and 19th. The truck meet we went to was where anyone who owned a pickup truck could come down to Daytona Florida and drive on the beach to get to mingle and entertain one another for the weekend. We met at a local gas station in Morgantown Kentucky at eight that morning. There was eleven of us total going on the trip, my father, Robbie Henderson, my friend Seth Gaskey and his father, Jimmy Gaskey, my …show more content…

While waiting in line we noticed they seemed to be slow with taking orders but we were starving so we decided to wait it out. After placing our orders, we were asked to wait off to the side of the window to receive the food. It thought the sun was going to set before we received our order. Finally, after forty-five minutes of waiting we got our food and set down to eat. This was our first delay during the drive down and we thought as long as we did not have any more we would still arrive at a decent time. We ramped back onto the interstate after everyone finished eating and still had approximately six hours prior to arriving. While driving down the interstate we recognized a truck from Instagram that was also headed to Daytona. It was a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado that had a large lift under it with aftermarket wheels and a custom pink and white paint job. The reason it was partially pink is because it was owned by a woman. We traveled the interstate for about three hours after stopping to eat when we crossed the Florida state line and stopped at the welcome center to use the restroom. While parking we noticed an odd screeching sound coming from underneath the front end of Seth’s Ford. This would become our second delay as we found out after inspecting his truck that his front passenger side wheel hub bearing was ruined. Immediately we started looking for the closest auto

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