On to Florida

Monday temps: High 78º, Low 64º

Wednesday temps: High 76º, Low 56º

Monday we left Bayou Segnette State Park and headed East. It is a 9 hour drive to the area of Florida we are going to so we broke it up into two days. We found a Army Corp of Engineers park on our route. Eastbank Campground is actually in Georgia just across the border. We arrived there around 5:00 and were able to get a pull thru site which was great since we were just staying one night. The park is on Seminole Lake and has several sites on the lake. Very nice and pretty park. Would be a nice place to spent a couple of weeks. Left the next morning around 8:30.

View of sunset in Eastbank Campground

View from our back window and Dennis already chatting with someone. Go figure!

Diesel price increased when we entered Florida. In Mississippi and Louisiana we were paying between $2.20 and $2.40 per gallon. We purchased fuel in Florida Tuesday morning at $2.52. At the Flying J's and Pilots they are charging $2.70.

Tuesday we left Eastbank around 8:30. Made it to the interstate then stopped at a Denny's a few miles down the road for breakfast. We stopped a few more times to get fuel and stretch our legs and arrived at Barrington Hills RV Resort just before 4:00. The office gave us our information and our site number. We parked the camper and were all set up by 4:30. Nice! This is not the typical kind of park we like to stay at. There are a lot of Park Model trailers and the sites are really close together. But it is clean and the trailers and sites are well maintained. So far the sites on either side of us are empty. Hopefully no one moves in while we are here.

Our site at Barrington Hills

One reason we decided to come to this area was to visit our good friends Gary and Cindy. I called Cindy to let her know we were here and told them we would stop by after we ate supper. We found a real nice small cafe, Carolina's Cuban Cafe just a few miles away. There was only one couple in the restaurant so we were a little concerned. It was nice and clean and the food was excellent and inexpensive. We chatted with the other couple. They come to this restaurant all the time and really like it. They are from Superior and spend the winter here and summer in Wisconsin. We spent the remainder of the evening visiting with Cindy and Gary. We also made tentative plans to go golfing with them on Sunday.

Wednesday we ate breakfast “at home” then walked down to the office/clubhouse. There were a bunch of people sitting inside. Turns out they have a coffee and doughnut social every Wednesday morning. Coffee and a doughnut for a $1 and a “Share the wealth” raffle, 3 tickets for a $1. We were introduced as the newbys and chatted with Dick and Frank. Seems like a nice bunch of folks. The park has a calendar of events which was given to us. There are 4 to 6 things going on everyday. I am going to try the Zumba classes which are on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings.

Events Calendar

After that we went to a Walmart to pick up a few things and stopped at a RV store to pick up a sewer seal. On the way back I noticed there is a Walgreen's and a strip mall with a Publix grocery store only 1 mile from the campground and a sidewalk along the route. Nice to know I can safely bike to a store if I want to get a few things. Today it was raining on and off in between bouts of sunshine. I think this is only the second day that we have had rain since we left.

(PS – Diesel prices are around $2.40 in the area around Barrington Hills.)