Ah, so now we know the area origin of the joke!
Hmmm... Those are Florida Keys place names. Ocean Reef Drive in Key Largo to Marathon Government Center is about 70 miles and an hour-and-a-half drive one-way (and that's if you don't have papers to deliver) according to my Google-ator. And the bay side of Blackwater Sound isn't along the route.
The old fart may not have been rich but he wasn't lazy!
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