RV travels around the USA
I hope that everyone had a great Christmas season with family and preparing for another new year. My wife Pat and I just finished celebrating our 49th wedding anniversary and Christmas with some family south of Tampa. This new year also brings in our 50th anniversary. Very hard for me to comprehend that. I remember my grandparents golden anniversary and they were old! Anyway, we have started to plan a huge year…
We are now at our destination for the winter months in the small city of New Port Richey (NPV). It has a population of 17,000 people and is about an hour north of Tampa and includes our RV park – Orchid Lake RV Resort (OLRVR). I’ll post something on the park at a later date. This year we stay at one place for almost four months instead of park hopping every month. We’ll see how that works having a base of operations instead of many areas of exploration.
We are back to our usual route south to Florida down through South Carolina and eastern Georgia then into Florida. This route has been heavily traveled over the years even before the RV travels. Interstate 95 is the major pipeline for snowbirds from the eastern part of the US and Canada. We had an enjoyable three day stopover in one of our favorites: Savannah, Ga.
And we’re off! It does feel good to get back on the road again to Florida. Especially as the Virginia weather forecast has some wintery reminders on the way. Retirement is good to have the time to spend three plus months in Florida instead of the week or two at Christmas back when I was working. Hard to imagine that it is coming up five years now since retirement.
They say that the second time is a charm. I certainly hope that is correct as we are loading the RV up for another attempt at the migration south. We have a few more things to load and then we are off!