We're on the move again

Once again too much time has passed without a blog posting. This time I have a good excuse, Millie was away for a week and I’m rather boring without her. Millie flew out to New Mexico to visit the family and I stayed in Florida with the dogs. I did keep busy during her absence doing little jobs on the motorhome, but nothing blog worthy. Millie enjoyed her week out west and flew back into Orlando on Saturday evening. Sunday morning marked the end of our winter retreat in central Florida.

We had a little excitement before we left the campground. A motorhome down the row from us caught fire and the street was soon filled with fire fighters and spectators. The good news is no one was in the motorhome; the bad news is, their motorhome is toast. 

Sunday we drove a leisurely 200 miles to the Elks Lodge in Perry Florida. We spent the night in one of their RV sites adjacent to the Lodge. We arrived early enough to go for a bike ride but didn’t venture far as there was a dark storm front to the north of town. The violent weather stayed to our north when the front passed but it did rain all night. We were the only visitors at the lodge and heard no sounds but the patter of rain drops on the roof most of the night. 

Monday we drove along the gulf road, passing through the beach towns. Some are laid back towns from another era and some are opulent playgrounds for the rich. The small town of Apalachicola looked very interesting and we plan to return someday for an extended visit. Campgrounds along the beach road are very expensive with prices ranging from $75 to $115 per night. These prices make the reasonably priced state park campgrounds highly sought after and almost always booked for months in advance. We went inland about 30 miles and used one of our discount memberships to stay for $10 a night.