Our 3-month journey to Florida December, 2014 to March 2015
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| Fort DeSoto Campground |
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| Fort DeSoto Dog Beach |
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| Americamps site |
December 28, 2014 is tonight and we were shocked that South
of the Border was full of back in sites. We have never had that problem. It is
usually empty but this is about 2 weeks later than we usually get here. Luckily
we found Bass Lake Campground, not much more money than South of the Boarder
that had pull throughs so that is where we are. It was raining today but not
bad at all. Hopefully we are not in for bad weather tomorrow. We will be in
Kingsland, Georgia G-d willing.
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| Bass River Site |
I have been knitting and playing on my phone. Bought some
items from eBay.
Note: Flying J is at 106 North Carolina. Great place for gas
and I think we can stay there.
December 31, 2014
We finally got to Clearwater late yesterday afternoon. It
was really nice going at a slow pace and not having our backs hurting from
sitting too long.
Two nights ago we slept at KOA in Kingsland, GA where we had
pancakes with the fixings for breakfast. This is the 2nd time this was
offered for free and wow what a nice perk.
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| Breakfast at KOA |
We had a terrific dinner last night at Pattaya Thai Sushi
Restaurant Clearwater, which was so good I just had to give them 5 stars on
yelp.
It rained yesterday and I know Cloey and Zoey are glad to be
on non-moving ground! This morning after a little coaxing we are seeing Aunt
Doris and Uncle Stanley.
Very strange but at 6:30a.m. we started hearing a marching
band?? Loudly!! And it is now 8 and it is still going strong.
We learned the marching band was for a huge college football
game tomorrow. We met Doris and Stanley for breakfast. They were delighted to
see us, if reticent at first due to memories issues. It was a great visit and
we are so glad we pushed a bit.
I was the one who killed the idea of first night St. Pete
opting for a stay at home night watching the ball drop and listening to
“music.”
January 2, 2015 we headed to Honeymoon Beach. This is an on
leash beach. We are having a hard time with Zoey’s barking and out of control
behavior!!!
We picked up a Denzel Washington movie, which was excellent.
Something like The E…nforcer?? maybe
January 2, 2015
We drove to Tampa and hung out with Shelly and Judd and
their new 25 year old 44 foot yacht. It is big! It’s in great shape and they
will have lots of fun with it. It is in a yacht club and they are members so we
had a great lunch at their restaurant, went to Publix and came home to two
crazy Havanese doggies.
Tomorrow, Saturday we are off to Fort DeSoto.
January 4, 2015
Today is my 63rd birthday. I can’t believe I am
an “elder.” In any case when I checked in we were able to get 4 more nights in
another spot YEAH!! We’ll have to move but we figured that and we will have to
dump since there is no sewer here.
After we set up we headed to the beach where Zoey went after
all the dogs like a big shot but later when we took them for a walk they did
their usual – hiding behind us and begging to be picked up. I so wish I took a
picture – Cloey went running and jumped up on a total stranger. It was really
funny and the woman was ok with it but when wet Zoey went jumping onto the man
she was with he wasn’t too happy! But the whole thing was cute.
We went to an inexpensive Chinese buffet that was ok but not
Crazy Buffet, which is closed (:
January 5, 2015
I had a great birthday. A perfect day on the beach. Dog
watching LOL!! The girls had fun. We went to Denny’s J because I got a Grand Slam
for free, which I think I’ve done every year now. We came back and watched my
shows that started new for the season.
It is cloudy today so maybe we will have the beach to
ourselves. Great hotspot here at site 108!!
January 8, 2015
Today may be the first day we won’t go to the beach. It is
cooool Ok now like in Boston and other parts of the country but high 50s means
a winter coat on the beach. We have a nice routine down. We get up, take care of the girls, have breakfast and about
11 we head to the beach, which is 5 minutes away Zoey has been excellent the last
couple of days. Not as much barking and coming on our command.
At about 4:30 we head back, take showers, have dinner and
then settle in for a few hours of TV. Nice life!!
January 10, 2015
It has been really cool so yesterday I stayed in and rested
since I hadn’t slept. Elliott went for an hour bike ride and then took the
girls for a walk.
We went to Walmart and spent over two hours some of which
was watching a display of a promo item for cooking. It was actually a great
product if you cook but we got something for free. It makes curly qs out of
things like apples.
Today, Saturday we might go to the Flea Market but I am
being really lazy. We want to watch the Pats so we’ll skip the beach – it isn’t
even 60 degrees so it might be another do nothing day especially since we have
two months on the beach.We ended up not going to the Flea Market and we couldn't watch the Patriots because we couldn't get the channel!! (::
I am posting this on Feb. 6. As the weeks go on, there is very little dialogue and more pics! And the Patriots won the Superbowl.
I am posting this on Feb. 6. As the weeks go on, there is very little dialogue and more pics! And the Patriots won the Superbowl.
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