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Thursday, April 1
We decided to stay another day and Tom did laundry and Frank spent a good part of the day answering backed up e-mails. We also went back to Goodman's. They were extremely busy and Tom didn't get his fried green tomatoes appetizer he had ordered. It is hard to find restaurants that sell fried green tomatoes. And making them at home is a messy experience, with grease spattering everywhere.
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Frank got a dose of artificial color from the restaurant last night and got no sleep. We moved on anyway. Several days ago we had called a brand new campground near here and they were expecting to be open by April 1. Calling back again today we found they will not open for at least another week. This is one of only 2 campgrounds within 50 miles. Pleasant people but the campground is small and the sites rather randomly laid out wherever they will fit.
Saturday, April 3 |
Today we moved further south on Florida's western coast. We are in a very nice, but crowded campground on a small lake. The trip from last night's site to here was only 61 miles. We both spend the day on computers and will eat dinner tonight in the trailer. Tom is making BBQ chicken for Frank and a steak for himself. Plus a baked potato, BBQ beans and maybe a salad. Frank spent a good part of the afternoon updating website coding so Google Earth place marks work better with updated campground images.
Monday, April 5 Tuesday, April 6 |
A large campground and so far the most expensive we have stayed at. We arrived in the afternoon and got set up. After lunch we decided to reposition the trailer to make it a bit more level. Then Frank's sister Sallie came over for a visit on her bicycle. The campground is right on a major bicycle trail that traverses the region. In the evening we all went to dinner at The Pub Waterfront Restaurant Food was decent but we had to wait for over an hour to get a table. We ended up getting home at 10:00 pm. Also Frank got another dose of artificial coloring, probably from the chicken tenders appetizer. That's the 3rd within a week. He has not been sleeping well.
Thursday, April 8 Friday, April 9 Saturday, April 10 Sunday, April 11 |
We drove south 118 miles to Ft Myers, FL. Nice campground with concrete pads and well manicured grass. We are again on the move. Tomorrow we hope to be deeply into the Everglades on an Indian reservation for two nights, and then on to Ft Lauderdale and the rodeo this coming weekend.
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Nice campground. Widely spaced sites, some with concrete pads. We are miles from the nearest town and right in the middle of the northern Everglades. A few traveling photos from today.
Wednesday, April 14 |
We arrived in Ft Lauderdale and are at a very expensive campground, but very pretty. Extremely well kept and neat. We spoke to the owners and they said we were their last campers for the season, before they shut down. We went to Tropical Acres for dinner and like the place a lot. Tom once had what he described as the best hash browns in the world here. Four years later they are still good, but not quite the same. The old adage applies..."One can never go home". Our site is under the landing path for Ft Lauderdale International airport and the planes can be noisy.
Friday, April 16 Saturday, April 17 Sunday, April 18 |
Today we headed north and are camped at a nice campground in Port St Lucie. We saw a Valvoline sign on the way into town, so we dropped the trailer off at the campground and went back to Valvoline to have the oil and transmission fluids changed. Expensive, but both needed to be changed. We had BBQ for dinner.
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Today we continued north and are near Cape Kennedy Space Center. Strangely when we left the campground of last evening we both noticed our remotes to the truck did not work. We theorized the problem was a massive radio tower behind us, and yep, that was the problem. Once away from the tower the remotes worked again. We are now camped in a campground we stayed in twenty years ago. It is all paved and massive. Thousands of homes and sites, a church, a restaurant, a golf course and a bar. Our new problem is it appears that the motor to the trailer's rear stableizer jacks is burnt out, so we will have to get a new motor once we get back to Oklahoma City.
Wednesday, April 21 Thursday, April 22 |
We finally got hold of our friends Ellie and Curt who are serving as campground host's at a Corps of Engineers campground in South Carolina. We are now heading in that direction to spend a few days visiting. Frank changed out the XM radio antenna, did some rewiring and cleaning of the printer areas. Tomorrow he will try to finish the project which involves removing the server to gain access to wiring. We took the rain cap off the kitchen fan and did a thorough cleaning. Lots of grease which was a mess. The lid had been sticking and hopefully this will solve the problem. We went to dinner at a very nice restaurant called the Raintree , however the little town was having a carnival just across the street and traffic was terrible. We were very lucky to find a parking space within a block of the restaurant.
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Great county park campground. We staid here 20 years ago and thought so then too. Full hookups, 50 amp service, cable TV and the fastest high speed Internet we have seen since we left home. Frank spent some time finishing up the computer wiring project. Looks and works much better now.
Sunday, April 25 |
Much nicer campground than we expected. Clean, neat and good high speed Internet. We passed through the town of Claxton Georgia, the place the Fruit Cakes come from, which reminded Frank of the stage play/movie Charlie's Aunt W, from Brazil, where the nuts come from, you know, as nutty as a fruit cake. The weather was hot and humid most of the day, but along about 6 pm as the front came through, the air cooled and the humidity dropped. It should be very pleasant for the next day or two.
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Frank is having major allergy issues. We are on a beautiful lake with fantastic views. The wind is very brisk but the breeze is great. We met up with our old friends Curt and Ellie. They are acting as campground hosts here for the season. We showed them our trailer and we talked for about an hour. Later we went to see their motor home, then we drove to nearby Evans, GA for dinner at a German restaurant. There was some scattered showers and while we were waiting for our meal we saw the most beautiful rainbow.
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Thursday, April 29
We had only signed up for two nights at this Corps of Engineer's Campground. And there were reservations for our previous site, so we had to move the trailer to another site about 1000 feet away. But since there is no sewer on the camp sites we would have had to move the trailer anyway to dump water. Today we moved the trailer and then did small projects. Tonight we again went to a different steak house nearby.
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Last night we gave Curt one of the spare notebook computers we had in the trailer. He was very happy. This morning Frank went up to the office and spent about an hour teaching Curt how to use it. We said good by to Curt and Ellie and began our trek for today. A bit long at 150 miles and all on back roads. We are now in the lower southern section of the Smoky Mountains. Very petty scenery and a nice campground back it the woods.
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