I Think We've Found a Gem!

Sometimes you just get lucky, I guess. We found a gem of an RV Park today! Yesterday when we decided we did not want to drive all the way to Clermont in one day, Forry just started looking at the map and outlined an area about halfway there. Then we looked at our directories to see what we could find in that area in the way of RV campgrounds.



We found two near White Springs that both looked good and offered a 50% discount. I called the first one, Lee's Country Campground, let it ring, but got no answer, not even an answering machine. So I sort of shrugged and started looking for the number of the second one. But before I could punch it in, my phone rang.

It was Myrna from Lee's Country Campground calling me back! And apologizing because she hadn't gotten to the phone in time to answer my call! Myrna asked me the usual questions: how big is your rig; any pets; do you need sewer, etc.
She then assured me that they had plenty of space and could give us a pull-through space.

We left Pine Lake RV Park in good time this morning and had an easy trip east on Interstate 10 through Tallahassee. We stopped for diesel at a Pilot near Midway, Florida. We put in 48.4 gallons at $3.829. With our RV Advantage Card it was a quick in-and-out as the card gives you Pump Start privileges and there is no need to go inside until it is time to pay. It also gives us 3 cents per gallon off. Not much, but that's $1.44 we didn't have to spend...

We were pleasantly surprised when we turned into Lee's Country Campground. It's small, they have eight acres with only 38 sites. Very tidy and clean. There is a gate across the entrance and there was someone there immediately to open it for us. The office is just beyond the gate and Myrna was waiting for us. She said that they had started the park from scratch twenty-two years ago. The park has no long-termers, mostly over-nighters and a few weekly renters.



 


Auntie Violet is parked on a grassy area with 50 watt electrical service and a water hook-up. We very quickly put the jacks down and the slides out. I put an acorn squash in the oven with some honey and butter and thawed some crab cakes for supper. Rigs have pulled in on both sides of us since this picture was taken. Like us, they are on their way further south.

My Tummy Doesn't Like Me!

It doesn't like me and it woke me up at 4 AM to make sure I knew it! After a couple of trips out of bed, I decided to grab my fleecy, hardly ever worn, bathrobe out of the back closet and curl up on the couch with the afghan. And there I stayed the rest of the morning.

By noon, I was feeling better, so I finally ventured to get dressed. I had a scheduled conference call at 2 PM for the Racial Healing Task Group that I am involved in, so thought it would help if I got out of my nightie for the call. And that was the extent of my ambition for the day.

Forry, however, went out and got the grey and black water tanks drained. And he took the garbage down to the dumpster at the end of the park. All in preparation for moving on tomorrow. Oh, I guess I did do something else! I called the Bee's RV Resort  to see if we could change our reservation start from the 13th until the 14th. Then I called Lee's Country Campground in White Springs to make a reservation for tomorrow night.

When I had made the reservations at Bee's, Forry hadn't yet sat down with a map to see how far it actually was from here at Pine Lake. It looks like it is about six hours of driving, which it is more hours then we like to drive in any single day. Now, with the new reservation, we'll break it up into two days of driving.