Adventures including a visit to, drive thru and/or stay in Florida
And some unexpected adventures We planned a couple of days in Starke, Florida, hoping that Mark could reconnect with his high school best friend Ernie (after ~20 years). Mark finally made contact 2 weeks ago…AND…Ernie and his wife Deb were around (less than 2 miles from the campground we’re in)! Read more
Visiting friends from Sarasoto to Wesley Chapel Gail got a lot of time with her friend Linda in Sarasota: some “Girls Time” just hanging out and lots of time with our hubbies, too. When we arrived, we tried our first Puerto Rican food…Mark had Mofongo Relleno and Gail had roast pork Read more
Mark Family & Friend Visits It is now warm enough for shorts, on the west coast of Florida. Our short stop started with a visit to Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve, where we walked the 1.2 mile boardwalk and saw an alligator, several turtles, and lots of birds. We must Read more
Gail Family/Friend Visits And finally SOME warmth, on the east coast of Florida, camping between Cocoa & Melbourne. Lots of visits with Gail’s Aunt Carolyn, cousins Jeb, Lee, Bill-G and and their spouses Karyn, Cherie and Gerri. Gail got in some time “just visiting” with Aunt Carolyn. There were also Read more
“Camping” near the home of the Blue Angels! We stopped here to visit the Gulf Islands National Seashore-Florida and the National Naval Aviation Museum (on the Naval Air Station Pensacola.) We actually camped across Perdido Bay from Pensacola, in Lillian, Alabama, our 35th state to camp in with Lizzy! We Read more
Staying in the Big Bend Region of Florida We picked Perry as a stop, as it was about halfway from Sarasota to Pensacola, and close enough to visit the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, and just before arrival, discovered so much more to visit! We did it all in only Read more
Mostly just hanging out…in camp or at Linda & Steve’s We planned our week in Sarasota to mostly visit with Gail’s good friend Linda and her husband Steve. Unfortunately, they had to go back to Seattle just before we arrived. Instead, we had time to catch up a bit on Read more
Or West Everglades…Big Cypress National Preserve Five nights camping in Big Cypress National Preserve (#231), at Monument Lake Campground. It is only our 5th time camping with Lizzy in a National Park! Despite the website info that there was limited cell service and no showers, we were pleasantly surprised to Read more
Although we didn’t visit it at all! We camped in Davie, Florida just 3 nights, for one trip south, and one trip north. First day we drove south, first for a revisit to Robert Is Here Fruit Stand, for Fruit Milkshakes and some “grocery shopping”, the for a revisit to Read more
Camping at the largest KOA in the Country Yep! Okeechobee KOA is the largest KOA in the world, by area and # of sites, and encompasses a 9 Hole Golf Course. Gail’s Cocoa Cousins asked, “Why are you going to Okeechobee? There isn’t much there.” Maybe they were right? Well, Read more