Awake: 6:18am Temp 42 sleep 7+35 partly cloudy overnight @ Milton, FL.
1st thing this morning, I go outside & check the electrical power box a little closer; I’ll be darned! We have a (30) amp site; Steve told me he would give me (50) amps. No wonder the voltage dropped so much. The office doesn’t open until 9:00am.
K & I attend 8:00am Mass @ St. Rose of Lima Catholic church in Milton. At the end of Mass, Pastor O’Brien asked the congregation: “are their any visitors from out of town?” Kathy & I stood up, introduced ourselves, revealed our home state of Alaska & our touring intentions.
After Mass, that led to (3) couples wanting to either talk about their visits to Alaska or someday visiting. Another couple asked us if we are RVing? “Yes,” we told them” & we are also going campground hunting today, looking for something that is reasonably close to Pensacola & has good (50) amp campsites.
This couple (from Wisconsin) is full time RVing also & is winter hosts for a campground about (13) miles further east. They invited us to follow them in our Suzuki to see if their campground would be suitable for us. We do so but quickly realize: not big rig friendly; however, they suggest another campground a few miles further east that is new that we didn’t know about that might be suitable.
Bingo: after seeing a few big rigs in this new looking campground & getting all the right answers from the owners, we agree to bring our coach back here this afternoon.
Yesterday as we pulled into our site @ the Cedar Pines RV Campground, a nearby neighbor told us that Steve had just sold his campground. I’ve been thinking about how to approach Steve on the matter of NOT providing us a site with (50) amps, or just paying our overnight charge & moving on without anymore said. The latter is exactly what I did; Steve seemed to be a nice guy & having this campground for (25) yrs was enough. He is looking forward to being close to his daughter & grandchildren in Texas & having some free time for other activities.
We leave the Cedar Pines campground @ 12:37pm following US-87 to US-90 to I-10 to the town of Holt arriving @ the Eagle’s Landing RV Park @ 1:24pm.
Today’s Travel: 47 min 25 miles 5 gal used 5.2 mpg 31 avg speed
Phone calls: Katrina; Gary & Grace; Gary & Rosemary.
Dinner: leftover tuna & noodle + broccoli.
After dinner: we take turns talking with Melissa.
Tonight’s DVR movie: “Network” with William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert, Duvall, etc. Paddy Chayefsky’s outrageous satire on television looks less & less like fantasy as the years pass; uninhibited tale chronicles forth-place network that will air anything for a big rating, including a patently insane, profanity-shouting “mad prophet of the airwaves” (Finch). A well-deserved Oscar went to Finch (posthumously). 1976. You gotta see it to enjoy it.
Lights out: 12:29am
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