Here is the updated diary of events to date
Jan 13th
Up this morning and prepare to get on the road. Exit the park and hook up outside their gate. All goes well except that when brakes are applied to indicator light will not activate in ELTORO. Decide to move without it as brakes are working anyway. About 10 miles down the road everything rights itself. Just follow route Penny ( the name we have baptised our Streets and Trips friendly adviser with) down through central Florida. Went through several supposedly small towns, that turned into it seemed a never ending city. We sure depended a lot on that Penny, as there were many, many turns and changes of highways, that without her we would have been hopelessly lost. But, she never let us down. As long as well listened to her, her directions were faultless. Only once, and that cannot be blamed on Penny, when we were going through Lake Wales on highway 60 and had to turn onto Highway 27, found that it was closed, no indication why, so we had to find a different route. Penny kept insisting to turn back, but we argued, and finally turned south on Highway 17, and finally she relented and excepted that as an alternate route, returning back onto 27 at Avon Park. Uneventful after that for the rest of the trip. The slight detour was interesting anyway. We had commented in northern Florida that we hadn't even seen an orange orchard, well here was about 100 miles of nothing but. Did find a spot to pull off and walk into the orchard for Denice to take a photo op. Of course, when I picked one small orange from a tree, she refused to even acknowledge that she knew me. I don't think the farmer will miss that one as I see truck after truck loaded to the hilt with the orange fruit. I bet mine is sour anyway. Haven't tried it yet!! Arrive at Crooked Hook RV Park about 3:00PM and check in. Looks like a nice park, so I extended our reservation to two weeks.
Jan 14th
Just a kick-back day - R&R and get settled in
Jan 15th
Even when retired still need to do those household chores
Catch up Day - Wash Clothes
Denice pampers and beautifies herself - facial, hair perm and cut
Looks like a new 40 yr old
Down the road to South Bay Park, about 10 miles
On way back stop at John Stretch Park and take sunset pics
Jan 16th
No Action today. Just sit around and eat and get fat ----ter.
Jan 17th
After the heavy rain during the night, and the sky cleared we decided to take a side trip down into the Everglades to Seminole Reserve. When only a few miles out of Clewiston we started to see alligators -- lots of them.
Seems a canal runs along every road here. Where we have ditches back home, here they have canals. Lots of water birds, alligators, and turtles. Denice did her, save the endangered species again this year, and carted a large soft shelled turtle off the road to the safety in the canal.
It was about 15 inches across the back, and she thought that I should be doing it. No Way!! It might pull its head in and stick it out another hole in its shell and bite me. Didn't look like to friendly of a guy to me!! Anyway Denice was in her glory. All those birds and wildlife just waiting for the pictures to be taken.
Arrived at he reserve and went to Billies Swamp Safari. Here they have Swamp Buggy Tours, airboat tours and wild animal viewing. Too late in the day to take any of them in today, but plan to return for a full day tomorrow.
Had a great lunch of Seminole fry bread sandwiches. After, continued on south to Alligator Alley interstate between Naples and Fort Lauderdale. This highway originally a 2 lane, but now a 4 lane divided high speed interconnect between the two cities, straight, only a couple of minor correction turns in the 5 miles, and flat. The GPS reads 0 feet elevation all the way.
At the outskirts of Fort Lauderdale, we turned north up highway 27 and returned to or home on wheels to end a great day. Temperature was near 80 F all day, and humidity must have been ??? high.
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