Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Coast to coast - Florida

Well, another week has passed and we have been busy traveling around Florida.

Last week on Thursday, we drove over to Punta Gorda - Port Charlotte areas to look at different RV parks. We really like this park but we hadn't really looked at that many parks, so we thought we would just drive through a few over in that area. Of course, the closer you get to the water the more the park charges. We looked at five different ones and found that they are more expensive and really don't offer as many amenities as we have here. There was one that was comparable to this one in most things and costs. It was called Sun N Shade in Punta Gorda. It was a smaller park than this one but it had a pretty good location to the water. But we did not see one that we liked the lay-out any better than this one. I don't know who designed this park but they did a very good job thinking of everything and how it is designed. Oh well, it was fun to go and look and compare parks.

We have been busy here in the park doing the activities, playing cards with friends, and going out to eat (of course)!! Here are a couple pictures of a tree that is on our circle. It is just beautiful but we don't know what type of tree it is. If anyone knows what it is called let us know.

The weather has warmed up some the last few weeks. It has been in the high 70s and low 80s most of the time. That has been nice. Makes the pool feel nice and cool.

Jack has had to have the truck worked on a couple of times the last week or so. We had a service engine light come on and then we had a recall that needed to be corrected. The service engine light turned out that the turbo had to be replaced. So hopefully this will take care of that problem. I sure don't want any problems on our way home. We will be leaving here either March 27 or 28.

Today we drove over to the Atlantic side of Florida. We went over to Port Saint Lucie and the Fort Pierce areas. It was a nice drive and we got to go to the beach and had a nice lunch a seaside restaurant. Here are a few pictures.
Here are a couple pictures we took at Fort Pierce and the little restaurant we ate at today.

We are looking forward to DeAnn and Bruce Hoover coming down and visiting. They will be in here sometime on Sunday and stay until Thursday. It will be like old times (as this is the couple we have "wintered" with the last two years). They are driving their motorhome down and then they are meeting some other friends in Georgia on their way back to Kansas City. So we will have a fun filled four days!!

3 comments:

LaVon Baker said...

Look at all that water! Thanks for sharing the pictures. If we can't be near the water, at least we have good friends who share pictures of the refreshing, blue, wet stuff.
Give the Hoover's a big ole hug for us, too. And have a blast with them!

Wendy and Rick Fury said...

I don't know what the yellow flower is but the park right next door to ours has the same type of tree. Most of the blossoms were on the ground already.

BUD AND SHELLEY said...

it sure was good spending time with you guys. thanks for sharing bruce and deann with us!