• Winter 2013, Spring 2014 Travel Itinerary, Internet and Satellite!

    December 14, 2013 Author: TheMrs
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    Kolomoki Historic Mounds State Park, Blakely, Ga. Nov. 22, – Nov. 24, 2013 No Internet or Satellite.

    Ho-Hum RV Park, Lanark Village, FL  Nov. 24, – 26, 2013 Virgin Mobile worked, our Dish Network Satellite died, no signal. Bought a new one!

    Holiday Campground, Panacea, FL Nov. 26  – Dec. 01, 2013  Kick Ass Internet FREE! Bought new Dish Satellite, works here! Has free cable too…

    Myron B Hodge City Park, Sopchoppy, FL Dec. 01 – Dec 08, 2013 Virgin Mobile Internet worked, Dish  Network Satellite, great signal.

    Old Pavilion Campground, Keaton Beach, FL Dec. 8  – 15, 2013 Kick Ass Internet FREE! Dish Network rocked! They do provide FREE Cable though.

    Chassahowitzka River Campground, Chassahowitzka, FL  Dec. 15 – 22, 2013 Kick ass Internet FREE! They recommend streaming, now I know why! Find an opening in the trees for Dish Network and you may get lucky!

    Lake Como Resort, Lutz, FL Dec. 22 – Jan. 02, 2014 Confirmed reservations! They provide free Internet. Dish Network works there, no tree’s!

    Lake Louisa State Park, Clermont, FL Jan. 02 – Jan. 06, 2014 Reservations confirmed! Family Reunion! Virgin Mobile Internet works here, So does DishNetwork!

    Creative Coach for repairs 1/6 thru 1/8 (stayed free while they fixed the dash A/C.) Virgin Mobile Internet works here LeLynn

    RV Resort, Polk City, FL 1/8 – 1/13 Virgin Mobile Internet works here, so does DishNetwork!

    Trail Lakes Campground (Skunk Ape Territory) Ochopee, FL 1/13 thru 1/ 20 May stay longer if we catch a photo of the Skunk Ape! They offer free WiFi but it was so weak, we used ours! DishNetwork signal worked great! So not use the shower house. Maybe next time it’ll be clean and not so moldie! Lots of upgrading going on there.

    ORTONA SOUTH, Florida part of Lake Okeechobee, US Army Corps of Engineers 1/20 thru 1/24 Our VirginMobile for Internet worked great! So did DishNetwork for the TV. Lots of boats to get photos of going through the lock. Bathhouse and garbage has easy access, lot 13 is right next to the shower house, no laundry there, you need to walk to the other one at the other side of the park!

    South Bay County Park, near Belle Glade! From 1/24 to 1/31 County Park. Free Internet and it works great! Very fast. Showers and Laundry. Lot 134 is right next to the laundry and showers!

    St. Lucie, near Stewart, FL.  Corp or Engineers  from 1/31 to  2/04 Water front is best  but hard to get!

    Long Point County Park, Sabastian, FL  Park Small lots, muddy, old bathhouse, etc.  Staying from 2/04 – 2/8

    Manatee Hammock County Park, Bellewood, FL 2/8 – 2/15 Free Wifi! Nice laundry, pool, shade, pier!

    Happy Traveler RV Park, Thonotosassa, FL  2/15 – 3/1 Free Wife! Nice laundry, and cafe open Monday and Fridays. Lots of old oak trees so Sat. did not work for us. Very peaceful. Nice folks. Good food!

    Half Shell Resort, Palatka, FL 3/1/14 – 3/8/14 Great Wifi and it’s free! Our Dish Network found it’s signal too! Believe me, this is not resort. They have one washer in the rec hall and a paid dried in the bath house. Very rustic!

    Laura S. Walker, Waycross, Ga. 3/8/14 – 3/12/14 No wifi signal but our VirginMobile  Internet worked great, Dish Network not so good! Lots of boating on the lake and places to walk and get plenty of photos!

    James Island County Park, Charleston, S.C. lot # 84  3/12 to 3/17 Free Wi-Fi and Dish Network worked great!

    Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet, SC lot #71 3/17 to 3/20 Our Dish Network worked great and so did the VirginMobile Internet!

    Santee State Park, Santee, SC 3/20 to  3/23 Dish Network barely worked. Our VirginMobile was knocking on deaths  door! Lots were small, narrow and none were level! All bath houses hot water was broken and there are no sewer hookups!

    Mr.Z’s RV Park,  Gilbert, S.C. 3/23 to 3/25 Free Wi-Fi works!

    Calhoun Falls State Park, Calhoun Falls, S.C. 3/25 to 3/28. This ends our winter trip south!

  • Carrabelle to Panacea

    November 30, 2013 Author: jbh
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    Big move! Twenty miles!

    On Wednesday we made the move from Ho Hum up to Holiday Campground at Ochlokonee Bay. We just happily tootled and toddled up US 98, stopped at some stupid “Summer Camp” Seaside wannabe while Oreo visited the facilities.

    Those muthas are fairly quickly ruining “The Forgotten Coast” for all but the chosen few. A good hurricane will probably fix that.

    Back to tootling and toddling. We rattled across the Ochlockonee Bay bridge and spotted Holiday CG but I proceeded northward  because, you see, I had a plan. We saw the Two Blondes liquor store and the Big Top grocery and eventually got to my goal…Posey’s Steam Room!

    Posey’s is a dive Wakulla County beer bar, oyster bar and general fish house. I turned in, did a 50-point turnaround and parked.

    The Posey family has been in the Wakulla County seafood business since they were fishing from dugout canoes, and the food reflects that expertise. So then we burped our way down the road back to the campground.

    Thanksgiving day we did a turkey breast in the little Weber.  Big breast, little Weber. Big breast as in held up the lid of the little Weber. I knew a girl like that once but I digress. So we spatchcocked the already-spatchcocked  and the lid just rested on top.

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    The goal, mind you, was to smoke and roast the turkey breast because Mom HAD to have the traditional Thanksgiving. It was a new grill, not a low-temperature smoker, so of course the first thing is that the fire went out. Then got hot, reading HHH on  the thermometer, then went out again. We did that a time or two and, two hours later, pulled off a perfectly smoked, bronzed and moist turkey breast. It looked really weird laying there without legs or thighs, but it ate mighty good.

    The next day’s project was to have a walk. Not a normal walk, a Mom walk.

    So we went off over the river and through the woods, up US 98.  The first stop was the quick-rip at the corner of Mashes Sands road; we confirmed that they had the basics that might be required. The next stop was Tropical Trader Shrimp Company where we had breakfast at the crack of noon complete with draft beer, and the last stop was Two Blondes liquor store where we met one of the blondes.

    Fortified with fried mullet and booze, it was back to the campground.

     

  • Cleveland, Ga. to Carrabelle, Fl.

    November 26, 2013 Author: jbh
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    We blasted off bright and early from the Grove last Friday bound for Kolomoki SP near Blakely, Ga., and then on the Florida. No more cold, cold drizzle.

    Since we thoroughly dislike driving on interstate highways plus driving through cities this took some careful planning. We threaded our way south between Atlanta and Athens; fairly slow going through small towns but the advantage was that we got to see those historic small towns.

    Then when we got well south of Atlanta we cut across the state to the west side through Forsyth, joining US 27 south of Columbus. When we got to Kolomoki we were 340 miles and about seven hours down the road and 30 degrees warmer.

    After a couple of days, southward bound again into north Florida, passing through the old town of Quincy, the Apalachicola National Forest and the worm-gruntin’ capital of Sopchoppy to arrive at Ho-Hum RV Park just outside Carrabelle. It was a nice drive of about 150 miles through lots of forests.

    One thing we discussed several times was that there was almost no traffic on this 490-mile trip. We’re glad everyone else thinks they have to get on the interstate.

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