At some point we rolled up on a police check point and the officer greeted us with a "Where are you headed today?"
After informing him of our destination he paused for a moment before telling us we needed to turn around and go another way.
We looked at him with a puzzled look on our faces and he clarified his original statement with...
"You are driving a large enclosed vehicle and I cannot permit you to get any closer to the President."
It had completely slipped our minds that we were nearing Mar-a-Lago. So, we turned around and headed off island and resumed north on the next main road.
A few minutes later we were sitting four cars back at a blocked intersection, watching a slew of secret service vehicles, one containing the President, roll by as he returned from a day at the golf course.
In the end, we wound up closer to the President than we ever could have gotten had we driven the beach road past Mar-a-Lago.
So, that was kinda funny.
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| The Coast Guard monitors activity on the Intracoastal Waterway in front of Mar-a-Lago. |