Spent most of yesterday unpacking, doing laundry and washing the rig. Just in time for the rain that is moving in here tonight.
Joyce ran across this site for doing lookup's for names listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall:
http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm
04/14/2013
Just before we went on our last cruise, our brand new, super-duper, do everything Rand McNally RV GPS started locking up on us. I called tech support and they talked me through the "fix" process. Everything is good to go and life is good. Wrong. When I put it in our truck and drove a short distance, it locked up again.
When we got back to Jacksonville, we took the piece of junk back to Camping World where we bought it. Even though the return policy for them is 90-days for electronics, the store manager authorized the return and issued us a store credit for the amount of purchase. We're happy campers!
Bought a new Garmin GPS at Costco and even though it doesn't have RV routing, we'll make it work by using a trucker's atlas when we'll be driving roads other than interstates and US highways.
03/17/2013
On Friday Joyce and I visited Fort Caroline National Memorial. Not much there but we did learn something about the French presence in northern Florida. Anyway, we got our National Parks Passport stamped.
Yesterday we celebrated our granddaughter's seventh birthday. Abigail is growing fast and maturing even faster.
03/18/2012
Had a great day with Harold, Michelle, Abigail and Skyler yesterday. Being with family, delicious food and a great bottle of Four Vines Zinfandel made our last day here very memorable.
Hooking up today and heading over to Weeki Wachee to visit Rodney and Sue Ziehr before our long run to the left coast.
03/19/2013
We made a very easy run across northern Florida to Cody's RV Park in Weeki Wachee. We volunteered here four years ago where I was the manager for a while.
Jeff, the owner, greeted us upon arrival and fixed us up with one of the primer sites and gave us a great rate as well. We have seen several folks that we're here back in 2008.
03/19/2013
Yesterday Susan, Mern, Margie and Joyce drove to Tampa in order to make their donations to the Hard Rock Casino. Although no one came out a winner, they had fun.
03/20/2013
Susan and Joyce have started putting on the tile behind our stove and so far it's looking great. Today their going to do the grouting and then tomorrow they'll do the sealing.
Before
After
03/23/2012
Yesterday we took a drive down to Tarpon Springs with Rodney, Susan and Jeff's mother Margie. Marg is a feisty eighty-three year old gal who is never left with something funny to say.
03/26/2013
Yesterday we said goodbye to all our friends at Cody's, hooked up and made the short run to the Elk's Lodge in Perry, FL. Since the drive up was only 140 miles, we left later than we normally do and then arrived here very early in the day. Out at 10:00, in by 2:00...our kinda day!
The Perry Elk's has fourteen sites with 30/50 amp electrical, water and cable TV (we couldn't get the cable to work very well). All sites are located on grass. The lodge asks for a $15 donation which we believe is very reasonable.
03/27/2013
We had an easy run for most of the day from Perry to the Destin Army Infantry Center Recreation Area where we will be spending the next five days. When I woke Joyce up yesterday she said "it's a destiny day".
We had smooth sailing until we got into the Destin area on Highway 98 when we ran into a huge traffic jam. What I didn't know was it is spring break time here and all of the nut cases are out and driving their cars like maniac's. It took us over an hour to go four miles! Cause? Three lanes narrowing down to two in the Outlet Mall area and idiots turning left, running the stop lights. I counted nine cars trying to cross into the parking lot after the light had turned red.
While we were in that craziness, Joyce was looking over our itinerary sheet that I print out and discovered that we were arriving in Destin one day early. What the heck! Yep, old Barry had actually scheduled us to be in Perry for two nights and then on up here on the 27th. We called the Recreation Center and they actually had one site left. No "old guy" comments are needed please.
Indulge me in posting a couple of grand baby pictures please. We miss them already!
More later!
Barry & Joyce
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