After exploring the Treasure Coast area of Florida in detail we have moved north to the Orlando area. The usual Orlando crush as you near Disney and the other theme parks. We are less than 5 miles from the Disney complex so we are right in the thick of it. It's cool how many of the shopping malls, businesses, service stations, etc try to look like a Disney attraction. They use the same bright colors, building styles, etc the Disney uses. They even use the same fonts as Disney for the lettering on the stores.
Economy may be slow but there still seems to a lot of building and road work in this area.
The campground where we had reservations turned out to be pretty poor. We went through the entire campground to get to our 'pull through' site. Before we got there the road got so narrow you could have called it a trail. Tree's overgrown and planted too close to the road/trail. At one point you had to make such a sharp turn to get to the site I had to stop and disconnect the toad before it scrapped against a pole. Sharp turns cause the rear end of the coach (and the toad) to swing wide in the oppositr direction. Thankfully the rear camera showed the potential problem before it became a real problem. Unhooked the toad and had MLA follow me to the site.
The site was on such a steep grade the rear wheels were off the ground -- not good since your emergency/parking brakes only work on the rear wheels. Plus the site really narrow and short. The whoile idea of a 'pull thru' site is to be able to easily pull into the site, leaving the toad attached so you can make a quick exit the next day.
MLA wasn't happy and when Momma's not happy no one's happy so we went to another campground and luckily they had an open slot. Much, much nicer campground and now MLA is pretty pleased.
Our driving lessons start tommorrow. Six hours of instruction each day for two days. Each of us will get 3 hours per day. MLA is a little nervous about spending 3 hours driving the RV; I tol dher not to worry, the written tests will take at least an hour a day. After all of the other issues to she dealt with today she was not amused. But I try...
We will be in this area only for a few days and then we head south again towards even warmer weather. Actually there is a bit of a cold snap happening here with temps in the high 50's/low 60's on Thursday & Friday. Then it's back to the 70's. MLA and I were careful not to complain about the cold snap here (50 degrees) while talking to our kids who are experining weather in the 20's. Ouch.
That leaves us with about a week to explore another area before we go to the Keys. We are looking to spend that week in either the Naples or the Everglades area. They are calling for temps in the low/mid 80's for that area next week. Sound good.
Economy may be slow but there still seems to a lot of building and road work in this area.
The campground where we had reservations turned out to be pretty poor. We went through the entire campground to get to our 'pull through' site. Before we got there the road got so narrow you could have called it a trail. Tree's overgrown and planted too close to the road/trail. At one point you had to make such a sharp turn to get to the site I had to stop and disconnect the toad before it scrapped against a pole. Sharp turns cause the rear end of the coach (and the toad) to swing wide in the oppositr direction. Thankfully the rear camera showed the potential problem before it became a real problem. Unhooked the toad and had MLA follow me to the site.
The site was on such a steep grade the rear wheels were off the ground -- not good since your emergency/parking brakes only work on the rear wheels. Plus the site really narrow and short. The whoile idea of a 'pull thru' site is to be able to easily pull into the site, leaving the toad attached so you can make a quick exit the next day.
MLA wasn't happy and when Momma's not happy no one's happy so we went to another campground and luckily they had an open slot. Much, much nicer campground and now MLA is pretty pleased.
Our driving lessons start tommorrow. Six hours of instruction each day for two days. Each of us will get 3 hours per day. MLA is a little nervous about spending 3 hours driving the RV; I tol dher not to worry, the written tests will take at least an hour a day. After all of the other issues to she dealt with today she was not amused. But I try...
We will be in this area only for a few days and then we head south again towards even warmer weather. Actually there is a bit of a cold snap happening here with temps in the high 50's/low 60's on Thursday & Friday. Then it's back to the 70's. MLA and I were careful not to complain about the cold snap here (50 degrees) while talking to our kids who are experining weather in the 20's. Ouch.
That leaves us with about a week to explore another area before we go to the Keys. We are looking to spend that week in either the Naples or the Everglades area. They are calling for temps in the low/mid 80's for that area next week. Sound good.
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