IMHO, the exact route she took isn't all that important other than suggesting that she had a change of plans along the way (as speculation posted earlier).
At the risk of boring the bageezus outta everybody...sometimes when I'm drivin' late @ night and I have a few options to make that left turn...I'll just keep driving 'till I get a green-light/or flashing light so I don't hafta stop my lazy arse...it was 5AM...
Be interested if you come up w/ something.
Good morning Bond. I've been thinking about this because I think it is important. Casey has to wind down at some point even though she can drive with only 4 hours of sleep on most nights. She wouldn't take the long way home without a reason after being up this many hours, IMO. Assuming she is half way between Colonial and Lake Underhill on Semoran at 4:30 am, I think she may have been headed to Conway and went to Sawgrass. If she went straight home, after leaving Sawgrass she would have taken Gatlin, Dixie Belle, Pershing, Goldenrod, Quail Pond, jogging around, hitting Anthony Lane (probably one of her favorites) along the way, to get home. but she wouldn't have hit that tower at 5:04am. So far she is only about 11 minutes from the last ping.
There is a McDonalds on the corner of Conway and Hoffner, hours 5am-2am. If she went there after, she would likely take Hoffner home and would ping this tower at 5:04. There is a 24/7 McDonald's at 1505 S Semoran too but if she was headed to Sawgrass she might wait till after to pick up food. She potentially has until 5:19 to get past Hoffner and Semoran where the next tower will pick up her phone. This is 49 minutes total. This is much to much time to simply stop by McDonalds. It would take maybe 6 minutes to make the short trip from Sawgrass to Mcdonalds because she'd have to head north, then Uturn. It takes 16 minutes to drive from McD to home, taking Gatlin, jogging back, hitting Anthony lane (likely her favorite road) on the way.
I'm speculating that she went to Sawgrass, then McD's at Hoffner where the cell pinged at the Semoran-Beechline tower at 5:04 while waiting for her biscuits, fresh out of the oven. 35 minutes- 11 for the drive to Sawgrass leaves 24 minutes to kill, too much to simply be thinking of going to Rico's then changing her mind, wasting gas. I think she brought breakfast home for the family after doing something at Sawgrass. If she was setting at the drive thru at 5:04 she still had more than enough time to get home or near for the next ping. She would likely take the route mentioned above and the trip takes 16 minutes, the next ping being at 5:19, 15 minutes later. Ok, I have to give her credit for speeding enough over Google Earth's timing to shorten the trip by one minute, not unreasonable.
Again, she had communications with her mother or father earlier and I think there is a good chance she is bringing them breakfast which doesn't fit with a fight on the 7th, probably even the 8th. Both parents were off from work and if she wanted to dump her daughter on them she could have just stayed away. Maybe right after Casey uploaded the flag party pics is a more likely time.
This is off topic of the fight but someone mentioned the lower left hand side of town and this brought some thoughts. Keeping in mind that Casey mentions the lower left hand side of town, the map of Orlando city limits showing George's work, Andrews International, is at the most lower left portion of Orlando. Most people look at a map with North at the top so the SW would be the lower left. The Anthony's live right or East of the lower right of the city limits. It would take 20 minutes if she were headed to Andrews International or somewhere near there. This is the lower left of town. I see Jesse Grund's parents not far to the West (also could be considered the lower left hand side of town). She would go by Universal Studios is slightly West, Sea World slightly South. There is even a Kinder Care. But it takes another 18 minutes to get back near the ping 6 tower and another 15 minutes to get from there to home. So she didn't go that far that morning, but this is the lower left side of town and could be important since she emphasizes this part of town. The airport is the extreme lower right side of town.
Now, if she was picturing from the center of town back toward her house, looking South she might still say lower (South) left but mean SE part of town which would fit Conway and Sawgrass. Facing South the Eastern side would be on the left side of town. This thought occurred to me because I know a couple of people very well that have the same strong Pisces energy she does and they often describe things backwards according to right and left or direction. One has his Mercury (brain function) at the same exact degree as Casey and he often seems to be lying where some simple, clear questions reveal he is simply seeing things backwards. Sometimes he answers the question he thought I was going to ask rather than the actual question too. Yes, I'm sure there is some undiagnosed learning uniqueness that is called a disability. He never gets lost though. He knows the streets, even without knowing their names, like the back of his hand. He simply feels his way through.
My final point that ties in here is that Conway is the plaza she got busted for going through without paying a toll on June 8 at 7:02pm. She was headed East bound and got off at Conway. This is the Sawgrass road and only goes South, toward Sawgrass, from the toll road. She was texting at the same moment she ran this toll. It's apparently hard for her to do three things at once well. IF she was again headed to Sawgrass, about the time she would have gotten there she stops her texts to Tony and Amy to direct her attention to Rico. This again brings to mind the fact that he has a Zan, Jennifer, Jen, etc in his cell memory. No, I'm not trying to put anyone under the bus, just get to the facts. Something interests her on Conway and she isn't texting or calling her Sawgrass friends or fighting with her mom at this point.
Yes, I do believe they had words somewhere along the line. Jean (I thought it was a female because of the spelling) was sure it was an afternoon and on the weekend but said yes to May, wouldn't commit to June. But if all the focus is on when this fight was, assuming the only possibility is that this triggered a fit of rage that led to Caylee's death, at the expense of everything else then something more important may be overlooked. As long as people imagine what might have gone on and only focus there as if the jury is back that Casey committed 1st degree murder, justice can't be served. Conway wouldn't be the most likely way home coming from Rico's or anywhere in that direction, would it? If not, there is something on Conway that has her attention before June 16.