Punta Gorda, Florida

Our on site
Palm Tree

Monday 3-10, we took Rudy to the Kennel, packed up the RV and headed out.  Brad wasn't able to get into the gas station where he wanted to, so he pulled into Wal-Mart and waited on me, since I was at the grocery store.  We ended up having pizza from the strip mall for lunch and finally hit the road about 1:00, pulling in at the Alligator RV Resort about 4:00.  What a nice place with very friendly people.  We had dinner at the RV and took a hike around the CG, nice place, but a lot of permanent trailers, and few RV pads.  Brad did call Ronald Bunner, a guy he went to high school with and plans are made to meet up with him tomorrow.

 

Tuesday we had breakfast, did a load of laundry and got ready to head over to Ron's house.  What a nice place, a disappearing wall that leads out to the lanai with a small pool and hot tub and beyond that his dock with a very nice boat....he has come a long ways from Dillsburg.  We talked for about an hour, then headed out to lunch, a restaurant on the gulf, good food and good company.  After lunch we had a tour of the town, with a couple of stops on our way.  We hung out until about 4:30, 5:00, then got in our car and headed home, with plans for dinner together on Wednesday. 

 



Fisherman's Village

Wednesday we had breakfast then headed out to the local tourist trap, the 'Fisherman's Village'.  We did the Military Museum first, then hit about half of the shops, stopped for lunch at the Oyster Bar, then finished rummaging through the shops.  It was a great place to spend the day and Brad even got a few new things.  We headed back home, a walk to the lake, a little relaxing then time to get cleaned up and headed over to Ron's house again.  He got ready then we all headed out to pick up his new girl friend, Donna, then off to a new seafood restaurant for dinner.  It was a very nice evening, and again, good food and company,  being there about 2-3 hours, a lot of talking, then we headed back to Ron's, picked up our car and headed home.  One more walk to the lake, since we have to leave tomorrow and check out is 10:00 AM, ugh. 

 

Beautiful Lake at
RV Park

Thursday we got up, ok another walk to the lake, back home and a bit of a flurry to get packed up and out of here by 10:00, but we made it, only about 5-10 min. late.  We hit the road, stop for gas, another quick stop after that, then we finally head back up the road.  We stopped for a little break about 1.5 hours down the road, then back in the RV and beat feet to go pick up Rudy.  We parked at the Wal-Mart, disconnected the car, then the 2 min. drive over to get Rudy....was he ever happy to see us.  Back to the RV, he jumped right in, ran around a little, then put himself in his travel kennel.  We leave the car disconnected, since it only about 5 miles to the CG, get everything hooked up, while Rudy is jumping and jumping and jumping.  After a couple of walks around the CG, we settle in for dinner, chicken and veggies, then another walk or two and Rudy is finally calmed down and asleep on the sofa. 

 



Today was a couple of phone calls, trying to find a CG or two for the ride north, no luck.  We gave up on that then headed out to do some shopping.  First stop Shari's to pick up our new camp chairs, then off to Daily's for lunch, next to camping world for a new TV receiver and a walk through the new RV's, then off to the grocery store for just a few necessities and finally to Sparkman's for strawberries and OJ, and I wonder why shopping that takes us 4-5 hours.  Neither of us were really hungry, so we just had left overs for dinner, then just a quiet evening at home.  Brad is playing computer games and I am working on the blog. 

Diane and Brad