Williston, FL: All Aboard !!!

Travel day from Panama City Beach to Williston, Florida, which is just below Gainesville. Bought gas, well, to be more exact, I charged diesel for the RV. Total: $231.30 for 66.1 gallons at $3.499999. Who do they think they are kidding with the '.99999'? Just call it $3.50/gallon and be done with it. Oh well.

Judy, our Garmin GPS, sent us on Florida back roads for the first hour or so this am. It was the shortest route however some of the roads were pretty narrow with no shoulder. Fun! Usually I plot my own route to the Interstate and let Judy re-calculate the route, which she does and says, in a very exasperated voice; "Re-calculating". MLA and I get a real kick out of how upset she sounds -- however she recalculates quickly regardless of how upset she might sound.

Arrived at Williston Crossing RV Park after a minor glitch. On the web, the RV park listed a north entrance if you were coming from the north and a south entrance if coming from the south. Coming from the north, we of course followed the directions to the north entrance. Not exactly rocket science here -- except -- there is no north entrance (yet). It will not be open until late in 2008. When I arrived where the north gate was suppossed to be I thought the gps had made a mistake. Then I checked the written directions -- matched the gps exactly -- a few choice words later I found a place to pull over.

As we looked at the directions, the gps, and searched for the campground phone number, a car passes us, turns around and comes back to our RV. The toad brackets on the front of this car identified him as a fellow RV'er. He says I see you are from out of state... which campground are you looking for. I tell him and he leads us right to the entrance, which I'm sure MLA and I would have found - eventually. We might not have been talking to each other but we would have found it sooner or later. Sure was nice of this guy. People say courtesy and friendliness have disappeared however you can't prove it by us. People have gone out of their way to help us time and time again.

Tomorrow we get up early to head to Sebastion, Florida. Should be about 180 miles Vs todays 220 miles. We have to pass through the Theme Park Capital of the World (Disney, Universal, SeaWorld, etc) about 60 miles south of here so I wanted day 2 to have fewer miles since I expect heavy traffic in that area.

Campground - once we found it - is really very nice. Mostly new sites and great facilities - at least the ones that are completed. Picture at top is of huge fire pit with about 20 rocking chairs surrounding the fire pit -- I'm hoping we get to try that out tonight. The owner has restored several trollies, two old police cars and an old fire engine. He is now restoring an authentic steam engine and a couple of the cars. Very cool!

On the weather front, it is about 11 degrees warmer here than in it was Panama City Beach; and Panama City Beach was nice. Expect to hit 80 tomorrow; I'll let you know.
See ya!