FLORIDA We made it!!

Friday January 3 2020

A nice morning breakfast on the grill, a nice walk with Rudy around the lake and campground.  We headed out and stopped at the Forest Gump Tree (Forest and Jenny were sitting in it talking) on our

The Grand Live Oak from

the Forest Gump Movie.

A lot of the movie was filmed

here in SC, near Beaufort.

way to Beaufort to get a lantern from the antique store we visited yesterday.  Yesterday we didn't want it, today we can't live without it. Go figure.  And of course lunch was in order so we went to The Brick Restaurant.  We have passed it several times and the parking lot was always full and now we know why.... they are so sloooow.  No need to go back. We finished our tour of town and headed home. After dinner we were just sitting around watching TV when Rudy started barking and going nuts.  We got him calmed down but a minute later he was at it again, hair standing up and barking like crazy. I leashed him up went outside and there at the back tire was a armadillo.  Rudy chased him out from under the Moho and off our site then he was done and ready go back in.  We guess he either could hear or smell him but he definitely didn't want him near our camper.

Saturday January 4 2020

We awoke to that all to familiar sound of rain on the roof.  It continued most of the morning to the

Fiddlers Restaurant!

point Rudy didn't go out until after 10am.  Eventually we headed into town(Ridgeland) for lunch just to get out of the camper.  We ate at a seafood place called Fiddlers, the food was great I had shrimp and scallops and Diane had just scallops both grilled both good.  As we look around the place Diane saw a sign about their fish market out back.  So we walked around town and were just going to check out the market but ended up getting a pound of the medium sized fresh shrimp, steamed with old bay. The price with tax $8.14, I should have gotten two pounds.  By now the rain had stopped so we happen to drive by a RV dealer so we stopped in to check it out.  They only had two diesel units and after the salesman broke off the key trying to open door only to find out he had the wrong key we decided to head home. We started to pack in earnest or the best we could everything is wet with water standing everywhere.

Sunday January 5 2020

We were up and on the road just after 10am a nice day for travel, sunny in the high 60's.  We stopped several times once for a nice lunch and still arrived around 3pm.  I95 was full but no rolling traffic jams I just had to pay attention all the time and the rest areas were full.  When we arrived, the camp host (Charles) pointed us to the correct site and then came down after we were set up to see if we needed any thing. A really nice guy/host.  We set up things we needed, and by then it was time for happy hour a nice walk for Rudy followed by burgers on the grill.

Monday January 6 2020

Well we are all settled into our spot.  It is just beautiful, 50 feet between sites, 20 feet wide concrete pad and of course a view of the lake. We had a nice relaxing breakfast of bacon and eggs done on the It warmed up into the 70's and we needed shorts to finish fixing up our site. We started happy hour a wee bit early as I grilled chicken and asparagus and we all know that is a three glass event.   A very nice day sunny and 75, although it is to drop into the thirties tonight.

Our site for the next 25 days!!

grill.   Diane made a run to  town to the drug store for a prescription refill and groceries but the credit/debit card machines were not working anywhere in town so she came home with just bread and coffee creamer.  I was working on sewer connection, setting up wash line, got the satellite set up and we just fixed the place up like we are here for a month. 

Tuesday January 7 2020

   37 degrees this morning when I took Rudy for his walk but by

Our view from the patio

or dinning room table!!

10am it was in the 50's.  A bit breezy today, ok just plain windy, it blew our rug off of the patio. Diane did laundry and went to the grocery store and I tried to fix the dash display screen but I was unsuccessful with the screen display.   I tried to reboot it by disconnecting the battery cable but it had no effect.  So that one will go on the list for next service stop. It was sunny as temp's rebounded into 70's enough that we had hog maw sausages grilled.  Once again my ear is feeling like it is infected so tomorrow we will be heading to an urgent care facility.