We're doing something different this winter. We're in Florida and we're gonna stay thru March. We're 'working' at Thousand Trails Peace River Reserve. We
stayed here in August and really liked it.
We traveled 11,500 miles this year (not counting air and ocean travel to Fiji), and loved every minute. Yet it also feels really good to know that we're sitting still for a while.
In traveling around this country we've learned a bit about weather. We've learned that a lot of places actually get hotter than Florida in the summer time and EVERY place gets colder that South Florida in the winter time! So we're 'doing' Florida this winter. But not where we normally stay in Florida. We're at a campground in the middle of the state - Zolfo Springs.
I put 'work' in quotes above because it actually sounds a lot more like fun. It's often called 'workkamping'. Here at Thousand Trails, they call it Member Worker Program. Basically you put in some time to cover the cost of your site. Sometimes you clean the bathrooms, sometimes you work in a kitchen, sometimes you work in the office. They've assigned Jim to put in his hours at the adult recreation center helping other guests with their computers and the WiFi! Is that what you call the briar patch? And, we'll be offering our
seminars here, on a regular basis, all winter. Cool!
So - here's home for a while ...
We're gonna like this.
Unfortunately, he had a really bad cold. You could tell he felt pretty miserable. Add to that the fact that he brought all of his sweet family, and you get the picture that he didn't get a whole lot of attention. This is Lacie, her daughter Aiva, Jo Ellen (Devon's mom) and Devon's new baby - August James (AJ).
Teaching computers to a 3 year old is easy!
The similarities between baby and great-grandfather are unmistakable!
Oh yeah ... Happy Birthday Devon! Hope you feel better.
I like ceremonies. We have too few in American society. Not being religious, we don't get the every Sunday ceremonies of church. So this was cool. Debbie read some Veteran's Day information to the group.
At one point, she had all the veterans come together and face the rest of us so we could applaud them. A pretty impressive group.
And then we went inside the 'meetin' hall' and Jim read a paper on The Unknown Soldier.
We're glad to be part of this. Thanx Debbie.
This is really one of the very nicest parks we've stayed in over our 3 years. And ... we get to be here for the whole season! Cool. Hopefully there will be some rain sometime because, right now, the river is too low to paddle.
