Today is probably our last day at the Orlando Thousand Trails for this winter. We leave here tomorrow to go back to Three Flags in Wildwood for two weeks. I say “probably for this winter” because we actually have another two weeks reserved here at Orlando after our Wildwood stay, but if all of Terry’s […]
We’ve been pretty busy lately and haven’t had a lot of time to goof off, and we were overdue. So we took yesterday off and made it a date day. We started out with a relaxing morning checking e-mail and our favorite blogs, along with a piece of toast made from some of the bread […]
Here at the Orlando Thousand Trails we are close to all kinds of major attractions, including Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World, sports arenas, and a host of other fun places. This is our third or fourth winter here and we haven’t been to one of them. But that doesn’t mean we ever get bored. […]
Yesterday was a busy day for us. We were up and out the door early (at least for us) and drove about 70 miles east to Titusville. We really like this laid back little town, home to Cape Canaveral and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, and we keep saying that somewhere (way) down the […]
I’ve never used drugs, and I haven’t smoked a cigarette or drank anything stronger than Pepsi in nearly 40 years, but I’m going through withdrawals right now. Sunday night our Dish Network receiver died and I can’t watch TV. Now, I know a lot of folks who could give a darn about TV, and some […]
One of the bad side effects of the harsh regime of chemo and radiation it took to save Terry’s life after her cancer diagnosis twelve years ago is that it took a toll on her body. One side effect was a lot of damage to her teeth, which she had always been very careful to […]
I got an e-mail yesterday evening from some new fulltimers who are hitting the road the day after Christmas, asking me for suggestions on snowbird roosts. They have been following the blog for some time now and were surprised that it can get down into the 30s here in Florida during the wintertime. They wrote […]
Many of you have posted comments or written e-mails in response to my blog about Thousand Trails changing reservations at its campgrounds in Florida this winter, and I promised to keep you updated. Well, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. (Maybe I should subtitle that “Raise enough hell and eventually somebody will listen.”) At any […]
Yesterday afternoon, Al and Karen Phillips came to the campground to buy our hard shell Native Watercraft kayaks. Karen is a blog reader, and I have been exchanging e-mails with her since September. It was nice to finally put a face with a name. They are new fulltimers, from Long Island, New York, and a […]
Am I the only one who is glad that Christmas is over? I enjoy the holiday music, and whatever little sliver of true Christmas spirit that remains, but the commercialism and frenzied shoppers drive me nuts. I’ll be glad to get back to normal. Or at least whatever passes for normal in our lives. Yesterday […]
We had a chilly Sunday morning in central Florida, and we were up early to get ready for a family reunion in Pinellas Park, about 85 miles west of the Orlando Thousand Trails campground. Terry had made up some goodies for the reunion the night before, and as we were loading everything into the Explorer, […]
Miss Terry loves wandering around the huge Webster Flea Market, which is held every Monday a few miles from the Escapees Sumter Oaks campground, and when we were here last year, the day we chose to visit, it was raining and it got washed out. So I promised Terry that we’d go back yesterday. The […]
Well, the leftover turkey has been put away, we’ve all let our belts out a notch or two, and now the madness begins! It’s Black Friday, and the stores are jam packed with people who have stood in lines for hours to plop down their credit cards to buy a bunch of junk that somebody […]
It was another chilly day here at the Orlando Thousand Trails campground, so we spent most of the day at home. The bad news is that being stuck inside too long really gives me cabin fever. But, the good news is that we’re getting a lot of things accomplished. Yesterday I found a mail service […]