Friday, July 4, 2008

Fiesta Key










How beautiful!




While visiting my folks in Port St Lucie we decided to take a side trip to the keys. The campground was one they had been to before and it lived up to their glowing reviews. The camp ground was on it's own island about half way between key largo and key west. During our couple of days we drove the entire length of the keys and in some places if you look left you see the Atlantic ocean and look right to see the gulf of Mexico or Florida bay the only thing separating them is the road. The picture of the captains bridge is Earnest Hemingway's actual boat located in a bass pro shop north of where we were camping. One thing that struck us was the difference between the tourist location of Key West and the rustic feel of the remainder of the keys. We spend some time at Bahia Honda state park which we plan to return too at some point. Food was great, location was amazing, water was clear, the sea life was mesmerizing and the company was super.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Savannah






Whew, it was hot in Savannah 106 but we had had a nice time walking the city and Forsyth park. You can see the fountian and the tribute to the confederate soldiers in the park and the line of folks waiting to eat lunch at Paula Deans restaurant at 9:30. City Market was a bit over sold, in our opinion as it was full of homeless folks and signs to beware of pick pockets. We did have the pleasure to eat at Uncle Bubba's, a famous local reasturant co owned by Paula Dean. Chargrilled oysters were a close second to Drago's in New Orlean's the Barbeque and shrimp and grits were also good. We are in Port Saint Lucie for a couple weeks with talk of a side trip to the keys. More later

Sunday, June 8, 2008

The start, Unicoi








We just completed our trip to Unicoi State park in the north GA mountains to make sure the new fifth wheel is ready for the big trip coming up. It appears that all systems are a fine except we seem to blow the TV fuse while driving but once reset it seems to be fine. This week end was very hot and we were only able to do two trails on Saturday morning, the lake trail (2.2 miles) and the bottoms loop trail (2.4 miles). It was 94 when we finished, we were ready for AC. Jess