RV McCurdy's, Brad and Diane: Yea, warmer weather

Wednesday 18 February

After a quick breakfast we went to downtown Apalachicola for a bit of site seeing, by the third boutique store it was lunch time. Stopped at a food truck and split a Cuban and it came with homemade chips, it was all very good. Hit a few more stores then the Rainey Museum Home. It was very informative took about two hours; it was one of the first big houses built in Apalachicola. Another shop or two when I got the munchies, so we hit the 'Up the Creek Oyster Bar' for a snack. Split an order of steamed oysters

Beautiful view from the deck!

and had our first afternoon drinks Margarita/bloody Mary. Back to the camper walk Rudy and leftovers for dinner.

Thursday 19 February

Breakfast at home. Cleaned up a bit and down to Costal Family Restaurant for late lunch. Much warmer today but still needed a jacket to sit on the deck for lunch. I had gumbo (grouper, scallops, shrimp) Diane order grilled scallops but ended up with fried.😒 They were still very good. Stopped at antique store, and Boutique, bought a tee shirt for Diane then back to camper, Brad not feeling well. We watched Hacksaw Ridge (war movie) very good. If you get a chance you gotta watch it. Grilled cheese for dinner.

Friday 20 February

First shorts all day weather day. Diane made breakfast. She is not liking not having a gas grill for quick cooking. Only cooked breakfast outside once since we have been here. I got another bike ride in, up to almost a hour. Boy am I every out shape surprised I made it that far.

Diane bought us some charcoal so I could grill the stuffed deer loin for dinner. I had to use campground charcoal grill (see picture).

Our old school grill.

No heat adjustment except for manual adjustment. How old school. It took much longer (3 glasses of wine) instead of the normal two. 😏 In the long run it was one of the best I ever cooked. Walked around the block and enjoyed the warm weather.

Saturday 21 February

Up and moving by 7 AM. We are going to meet Shari and crew for lunch at The Back Porch Restaurant in Destin, a 3 1/2-hour drive. We hustled right out of here at 9 AM, we should arrive around 12:30 and have a half hour to spare.... or so we thought. Terribly foggy for the first hour of driving, considerably under speed limit. I'm keeping an eye on our arrival time 12:30 then 12:35, slowly the fog starts to lift, arrival time 12:45 still time to spare. We had to stop for a bathroom break, 5 more minutes, get back on the road glance at the arrival time and surprise it is 11:50. Yep, we crossed the time zone. Now we have an hour to kill. Stopped at Public's for wine, probably the only Public's in Florida that doesn't sell wine and we found it. 😑 We did find an ABC store and our wine was on sale.... sold out. After all that we still arrived at 12:30. Diane went in to make sure they could seat the 11 of us in the pet friendly area. No pets allowed the guy tells her; it was a mistake on the google map site. We drove around the parking lot to find some shade to park in. Finally, all settled in, Rudy parked in the shade and Matt, Shari and crew roll in.

After hugs and hello's, we head in. Nice place right on the beach. Big waves rolling in just like East coast ocean beach. The food was very good😃 but very pricey! 😕 I had crab stuffed shrimp and Diane had shrimp tacos. Oh YUM.

So good to see the kids. We talked for some time got hold Eamon Kent (third named after the now famous Bradley Kent) 😁 Then we headed out to the beach, kids played in the sand and got ankle deep in the water (Gulf of America).

All good days come to an end! Walked to the ice cream/candy store right beside the parking lot. Then it was hugs and goodbyes. 😔

Now a 3 1/2 hours drive home. Arrived 8 pm.