Day 16 Thru 20



It's time to catch up a bit.

Day 16: Tuesday 3/14

Where did the sign go??

Today we are on our way to Ft Myers to visit our best man Casey and his wife Barb.    As I took the trash to the dumpster I noticed what I would call an extreme case of identity theft.  The sign for the Georgetown Marina has been stripped!

Northern Florida and the Ocala Forrest area is known for having quite a large bear population.  As we turned south onto FL19 we noticed this sign.  Later we saw a sign "bears for the next 33 miles".  As luck would have it we didn’t see any bears. (Darn)  Linda found out that one of the ladies in the campground spotted a bear about six miles up the road at the fish hatchery.  It crossed the road and walked into the woods.  Linda won’t go out after dark.

We took a detour to Englewood to see Gene McCoy and his wife Carol.  Gene and I worked together

at Keystone Aviation when we first moved to PA in 1978.  He is now retired from the FAA.  They moved to Englewood in May of 2016 and love it there.  Gene drove us to the beach at Englewood.  The winds were really up coming out of the west and the Gulf, that is normally pretty calm, had waves like the Atlantic.

Carol and Linda really hit it off well.  It was nice to have a reunion with Gene and meet Carol.

We arrived in Ft Myers just after dinner.

 

Day 17: Wednesday 3/15

We just chilled with Barb and Casey watching TV and playing games.

Day 18: Thursday 3/16

Dido…Except we ran downtown to the Ft Myers Yacht Basin to see Denise.  She took care of all our needs when we were there in 2012.  She even invited us to stay for the dock party but we had other plans.

Day 19: Friday 3/17

My aunt Nancy and her husband Bob, are staying at Pioneer Village RV Park right here in N. Ft Myers.  Today we are visiting with them.  Bob is part of the Horseshoe crowd and today they are having their Pizza Extravaganza.  The people were kind enough to ask us to join them.  

Nancy (blue) and Bob (orange)

After lunch we went back to Bob and Nancy’s trailer and played (a new to us) card game “Spades Rule”.  We had a great time with lively conversation.  Then it was supper time…What to do?  Nancy remembered that Steak and Shake was offering milk shakes at ½ price with a meal before 5:00 PM.  This is at 4:29.  “Oh it’s just down the road”.  Down the road is about 10 miles away in Cape Coral.  N. Ft. Myers and Cape Coral at rush-hour!!  We decided to each take their own truck and meet there.  I believe Bob may have made a new land speed record.  We hit the parking lot at 4:59. The girls made a run for the door and made it in before 5:00!  The hostess took her good old time seating us.   Nancy told the waitress that we made it in the door by 5:00 and asked if we could still get the ½ price milk shakes.  The waitress smiled and said she will ask the manager but didn’t see any problem.  We all laughed so much it was like a table of teenagers.  We certainly enjoy our time with those two.  We seem to have the same mind set on life.

Day 20: Saturday 3/18  Something happened to the camera and the pix are washed out!

We said good byes to Barb and Casey around 9:30 AM.  Linda wanted to see the beach at Siesta Key.  It’s rated the number one beach in the USA.  Siesta Key is about 75 miles up the Gulf Coast from Ft. Myers.  We arrived there around lunch time. There is a lot of traffic at Siesta Key and if you are in a hurry you’re in the wrong town.  The beach is beautiful.  It’s several hundred yards wide and over three miles long with the whitest sand you’ll find anywhere.  The sand is as soft as talc.  We had lunch at the City Park Snack Bar and enjoyed the salt air and beautiful view.  Linda gathered some sand to send in her friend Vickie’s birthday card.

Leaving Siesta Key we headed west on routes FL 72 to Arcadia and then FL 70 to meet US 27 north to Lake Placid.  A quick visit to Henderson’s Fish Camp to refresh our memories of what was there.  It's a maw and paw fish camp that has been there for years.  It’s on the eastern shore of Lake Istokpoga near the town of Lake Placid.

Traveling north we stopped at Boggy Creek RV Park again to refresh our memories.  Last year when we checked out the 40 campgrounds I didn’t take pictures.  Not like me I know.  Boggy Creek is more of a resort type RV park.  Lots of Live Oak shaded sites and all the amenities.  Linda really likes this one.  Boggy Creek is an area just outside of Kissimmee. (That’s pronounced Kis-sim-mee by day and Kiss-a-me by night).  Boggy Creek empties into East Lake Tohopekaliga.  I won’t even try to pronounce that one.  Folks in the area just call it Lake Toho.

 We arrived back at Georgetown at 10:30 PM.  Low and behold they have a new identity.