Will be in Key West tomorrow!

We spent two nights in Homestead with my sister and brother in law.  We will leave here in the morning and be in Key West late afternoon.  There are a couple of places we want to stop at on the way down, one is the Bucktooth Rooster for lunch.

Sanibel Lighthouse

We just briefly stopped by the lighthouse while we're were on Sanibel Island.

Made it to Fort Myers

We spent last night at the Cracker Barrel in Kissimmee, we really like staying at them.  They are usually quiet during the night, and we start the day with a great breakfast.

This morning we enjoyed breakfast with some friends who are staying at Lake Magic RV park.  After breakfast we left Cracker Barrel and stopped at their campsite.

We had a pretty simple trip to Fort Myers, we did drive through the city of Lake Placid.  We enjoy looking at the murals throughout the city.

Back on the road and at 8pm we are parked for the night at guess where, the Cracker Barrel.

Made it to Kissimmee FL

We made a few stops along the way, first stop at Sunshine RV in Gainesville FL.  We like stopping there, they usually have a great selection of Class B motorhomes and today they had a great inventory to look at.

From there we headed to Cross Creek to tour Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park.

https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/marjorie-kinnan-rawlings-historic-state-park

Her old home is well preserved, and for only $3 for a guided tour is a deal.

Our next stop was Micanopy FL, every time we are passing by here we have to stop.  A couple of places to grab a bite and some unusual stores to shop in.  I grabbed a piece of chocolate pecan pie and will enjoy it later tonight.

Then back behind the wheel toward Kissimmee for our second night in the road to Key West.

Day 1 of our trip to Key West completed

After telling our children good-bye we set out on the road south.  Traffic through Atlanta was not bad, it was about noon on a weekday.  We jumped off I-75 at the Arabi exit, never visited Arabi and thought we would this trip.  From there we continued with our GPS set to avoid highways.  It added  about 2 1/2 hours to the trip but the interstate gets boring.

We made it to Cracker Barrel in Lake City just before they closed, so we will have breakfast in the morning before continuing on.

Getting ready for Key West!

We made reservations for a month in Key West several weeks ago.  We will be staying at Trumbo Point Family Camp on the USCG/Navy base, this will be our third winter season there.    We prefer Trumbo over Sigsbee on Dredgers Key because it is a shorter walk to Old Town which makes it nice for us.  We usually ride our bikes to get around, Key West is very bike friendly and it's much easier to park a bike than a car.

Our RV has been in the shop having some issues taken care of, seems to be very common for many RV'ers sadly.  This last shop visit we finally had the Dometic 3 way refrigerator replaced, the propane regulator replaced and the sofa/bed worked on.

I picked up our RV Thursday and visited the Mercedes dealer Friday to have the engine oil changed.  After that was completed I drove home so I can prepare the RV for leaving the following Friday.  I changed to oil in the propane generator and filled the freshwater system with a bleach/water ratio to sanitize the freshwater system.  I have a 30 gallon freshwater tank, so that is 1/2 cup of bleach in a full tank.

Now we will be giving the RV a complete cleaning inside and out prior to loading it up for our trip.

Friday will be here soon!

2019 JeepFest Sandy Bottom Trail day time

JeepFest 2019 - Some early vendors setting up and some interesting Jeeps

JeepFest night ride 8 28 2019

Pima Air Museum