With a week of on site work with a client in Ft Lauderdale completed we were off to that set of dots off the southern tip of Florida…like an ellipsis placed by the great Author as His own thoughts drifted toward relaxation at the end of His creation sentence. Florida Keys, here we come!!
Author: Huck
No love for bicycles?
Since we are in southern Florida I decided to spend a week with a client I have in the area. And let me pause to say that I am INCREDIBLY blessed to have 2.5 clients who have been very supportive of my reduced hours, crazy work schedule and remote office. To them I say, thank you thank you thank you!! We found an RV park only 3 miles from the office which means I can easily commute by bike AND the family still has the truck to use. Its a win-win!! I’m usually not a big fan of business trips: being away from your home, living in a hotel, eating out for every meal, being apart from your family, driving an unfamiliar car and not getting to commute by bike. But this business trip has none of those and its awesome!!
Okeedokee Okeechobee
I’ve said it before, but moving day is tough. And since we’ve been in Florida its been harder and harder to find the next spot to move to. It can be stressful. All the state park campgrounds are booked up and RV parks aren’t our favorites (plus they are pricey and don’t have many other young families). Like the irony spoken by the Ancient Mariner: home home everywhere but not a place to park. So once we land in a new spot we begin trying to find the next spot to stay. But after a busy several days in Orlando I went to bed late on our last night in the city still with no idea where we would stay next.
Moving day
Another in the Life on the Move series. Today we have a look at moving day.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths — Walt Disney
Orlando…my 2 cents
Nothing in Orlando is even close to 2 cents so this post is a bargain. I may sound a bit crochety in this post but please don’t mistake it for dislike of theme parks or regret that we visited. I am frugal. A tight wad. Maybe even cheap. So I am a foreigner in this land of the hemorrhaging wallet and will share some of my thoughts from our visit. We had a blast in Orlando and the kids were overjoyed to do the parks so I’m happy we were able to share the experience as a family.
They get you even coming into the city on the toll roads…and I’m pulling 2 extra axles so my price is double. Welcome to Orlando! We were totally stoked to score a VERY reasonably priced campground in close proximity to Universal and Disney World…this would be our only bargain and we were grateful for it.
Shortest travel day ever
We started researching where to stay while in Orlando. “Everybody” seems to stay at Di$ney’$ Fort Wilderne$$. If you are on a week long vacation and you are blowing a big wad of cash in a short amount of time then this probably makes sense, or at least Disney-cents. But we are on a rather long adventure and need to make our small wad of cash last for awhile…so we were looking for other options.
Jesus in a DeLorean
Another Sunday in the south was coming up so we started looking for churches in the area. If you are Baptist you have plenty of choices! And it seems like they all have Sunday School at 9:30 (sometimes 9:45) and worship at 11:00…which makes it easy to plan your Sunday no matter where you are! But we wanted to try something a little bit different. Once again, the churchs’ presence on the web was almost non-existent. But there was a Methodist church just a few miles away that had a web page that informed us that there was a contemporary service at 10:30. Bingo….that’ll work for us!
Rainbow Springs
This area of Florida is chock full of springs. We had already visited Three Sisters in Crystal River and the Homosassa Springs. But some of our RV park neighbors recommended Rainbow Springs which was about 30 minutes away. So after fixing the toilet and a quick lunch we headed off for the Rainbow Springs State Park.
Nocycling and showers.
Another in the life on the move series…this one is about trash/recycle and showers.
I studied with the Maharishi for many years, and really didn’t learn that much. But one thing that he taught me, I’ll never forget: ‘ALWAYS…’ no, wait– ‘NEVER…’ no, wait, it was ‘ALWAYS carry a litter bag in your car. It doesn’t take up much room, and if it gets full, you can toss it out the window.’ — Steve Martin
Toilet joy
Simple things can make me happy….today it was a toilet that brought me joy.
An RV toilet does not have a p-trap (at least mine doesn’t)…the hole goes straight into the tank of disgustingness. So to give you some separation from the nastiness there is a foot activated flush valve. You know how in the movies the evil villain brings the hero into his glamorous lair to divulge his secret plan right before he pushes the big red button which drops the floor out from underneath our hero’s feet so he falls into the pit of something really gross and/or deadly? I won’t completely spell this analogy out for you…but you are the villain and that foot activate flush valve is the big red button. Dang, that analogy makes for a crappy hero doesn’t it?