In 1940 the U.S. Forestry Service surrendered an 800 square-mile area of Florida Gulf Coast shoreline covered in pine trees to the War Department. The area in a largely uninhabited section of the Florida panhandle became a major site for gunnery and bombing practice by nearby Eglin Air Force base during World War II. As […]
On Tuesday, February 7, 2023 we left Three Rivers State Park in Sneads, Florida and drove the relatively short distance of less than 2 hours to the Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park in Niceville, Florida. I think I’ve mentioned before that this year we are taking our time leaving The Sunshine State and the
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 we drove 174 miles from Hart Springs Campground to Three Rivers State park in Sneads, Florida. Sneads is not far from Marianna, Florida where we stayed last January and enjoyed taking a tour of the Florida Caverns. Sneads is where Florida meets the southwest corner of Georgia. Back in 1947 the
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Our next stop was Hart Springs, a Gilchrist County park in Bell, Florida. Bell is about 40 miles west of Gainesville, Florida. Hart Springs sits on the Suwannee River and has one of the largest spring-fed swimming areas in the state of Florida. The RV campground is to the east of the river and is
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On January 2, 2022 we left Central Florida and began 10 months of travel across the United States and Canada. During the course of those 10 months (and November and December of 2022 back in Central Florida) we spent at last one night (our criteria for counting it as a state visit) in the following
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Wednesday January 4, 2023 we left Lake Louisa State Park in Clermont, Florida and drove a little over an hour to Hillsborough River State Park near Thonotosassa, Florida. This would be our second time staying at this State Park. We were here for the first time back in 2021. We were booked into a different
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022 we left Sebastian Inlet State park to return to Lake Louisa State Park so we could spend the Christmas and New Year’s holidays with our “East Coast” kids and grandkids. Cindy was feeling much better after her bad bout of food poisoning and we were looking forward to a fun time
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Wednesday morning, December 7, 2022 we left Wekiwa Springs State Park and drove a little over 2 hours in a southeasterly direction to Sebastian Inlet State Park. Cindy loves the beach. Not like the getting in the water swimming (who knows what might get you out there…a shark, a jellyfish or even man-eating seaweed) kind
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Wednesday, November 23rd we packed up Voyager and Nomad to drive about an hour away from Lake Louisa State Park in Clermont to Wekiwa Springs State Park, just north of Orlando in the Apopka area. We’d be spending the next two weeks there so that we were a little closer to the kids and grandkids
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On Tuesday, November 8, 2022 we left Manatee Springs State Park Chiefland, FL one day before our reservation was complete so that we could drive to Orlando to vote in the 2022 Florida elections. When we originally made our reservations almost a year prior, we had not noticed that Election Day would be on the