6/9-6/11 2024 Fort Desoto

Sunday morning we left about 8;30 am heading for Fort Desoto. We had an pretty easy drive for the first two hours. I had planned on driving back roads and come into Fort Desoto from the south so I would miss coming thru Tampa Bay.  One of the roads I planned to use was shut down due to fires so we had to change our route. The traffic thru Tampa was about 10 mph but we finally made it.   Fort Desoto Campground is a beautiful place. Our site is nice and long. The roads are narrow but mangable. After getting set up, Susans good friend Teresa came and picked us up and carried us back to her condo. She is about 3 miles from us on Tierra Verde.  Her and Joel have a beautiful place on the water. Teresa had cooked us a great supper and I pigged out.  When we got back home I went straight to bed as I was very tired. Monday morning we got up and chilled untill Teresa picked us up. She gave us a tour of St. Petersburg and then we had a late lunch. That evening I picked up our chairs and outside things as we had a little tropical moisture heading our way. We were right on the edge of getting a little rain or a lot of rain.  During the night we got some heavy rain but by morning it was just off and on drizzle and that continued thru out the day. We just got a couple of inches but starting about 10 miles south of us they were getting 8-10 inches,  During the morning I went to check out the old historic fort and museum in between the rains.  That evening we went back to Joel/Teresa's for supper and just visited. We had a really nice time. 

6/6-6/8 Melbourne Beach

 Thursday was another nice day. Alex & Vicki picked us up at noon and we headed down to Vero Beach. We at lunch at the Riverside Grill on the Indian River. Another good meal and visit. When we left there we went to the Sebastian Inlet. That is a cut where the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River meet. The water was very nice. We watched boats and jet skis navigate the inlet. There are times when that inlet can get pretty rough. When we got back home we just chilled. The park is beginning to fill up again for the weekend. Late that night we got some rain for the first time this trip. Friday we just chilled at the trailer all day. Cooper and I went on several walks. The park is filling up with the weekenders. We got a pretty good windstorm but no rain late that evening. Lots of canopies, tents, grass mats were blown thru out the campground. I had all my stuff put up but it amazes me how some folks don"t watch the weather.  Saturday morning it got hot pretty fast. We gathered all our laundry and went to Alex/Vicki house. Started washing clothes. They took us to Melbourne ro a little pizza place for a great lunch. Then we went and finished washing clothes and just visited. This our last day here , moving to Fort Desoto tomorrow. Its located near St Petersburg on the gulf side.  We had a really good week here.

6/4-6/5 Melbourne Beach

 Tuesday morning was another nice morning. About noon Vicki/Alex picked up us and we went to lunch at a kinda Cuban themed restaurant. It was very good. I got a special they were offering which was a fried green tomato blt wrap. Really liked it. I would go back for sure. After that we went to a quilt shop for Susan. We got back home around 5. I was pretty tired. There was going to be a starlink launch at 10:30 pm at the space center but I couldn"t stay up.  Wednesday morning we stayed close to the trailer. I put some shoe racks for Susan around the base of the bed and then had to fix one of the curtain valance on a big window. We went to the beach around 10:30 am so we could watch the manned Boeing Starliner launch. Even though we are about 35 miles away we got a good view. We pretty much had the beach to ourselves. After that we just went home and chilled the rest of the evening.

Boeing Starlink

All thats left

This guy fished by our trailer everyday

6/1 -6/3 Melbourne Beach

 Saturday was a travel day. It was about a 7 1/2 hr drive with three stops. We got to our campground around 2:45 pm.  It was a county Park on the Indian River. Very unlevel sites with a shared Utility post. We had to angle our trailer in but it gave us great views. I was pretty tired that evening, but the weather was gorgeous. Sunday around 10 Susans cousin Vicky/Alex picked us up We went to their sons house to visit and then we all went to lunch. We ate at a nice restaurant on the water. Again the weather was gorgeous and we had a great time. When they dropped us back home it was nap time for sure. That evening we just chilled around camp.  Our neighbors from a couple of sites came down and we visited for awhile. They only live about 25 minutes away but camp here on the weekends a lot.  Monday we went to Vicki/Alex house and visited. She made us a great lunch. Homemade enchiladas and rice, They said you can't get good mexican food here at all. We had another enjoyable day. 

5/28-5/31 We moved to East Bank Campground-Northern Florida

 We pulled out Tuesday morning heading to our next destination.  It was about a 5 hr drive with a couple of stops.  East Bank campground is about 2 miles north of Chattahoochee on Lake Seminole. East Bank is really about a quarter mile across the Georgia line. It also sits on the time zone line and our phones kept changing back and forth from Easter to Central time.  We had a nice waterfront site. All we did was just chill for a couple if days. We found a little seafood place to eat at and it and was really good. We had a gator that would cruise by our campsite every morning looking around.  There were geese that would wander by and drive Cooper crazy. This campground had a little laundry room which was free to use, It had good MayTag machines so we got our laundry done. Just a relaxing couple of days.

5/25--5/27 Ashley Graduation and Biloxi Mississippi

Our second grandaughter Ashley Grace graduated from Kingwood High on Saturday morning at 9:am.  it was held at NRG stadium. She was #6 of 646 students. we are very proud of her. She will be going to Texas A&M in the fall. She was accepted into the Honors Business School. There was a nice graduation party at her house after graduation.                                                                                                                                  The next morning we headed to Biloxi Mississippi. We are going to spend a month in Florida. Davis Bayou Campground was our first stop. It took about 7 hours. The traffic was pretty good except for one slowdown past Slidell. I was tired when we arrived and got set up. I had an early evening and went to bed. Monday morning I got up at 5:30.  Cooper and I took a walk around the campground. He bayed a turtle on our walk, just couldn"t figure out what it was. Evidently our site is a turtle crossing as we saw 3 more.  Susan slept till about 8:45. About noon we left and ran some errands, then we drove along the beaches sightseeing. About 2 we stopped at Shaggy"s and had an early dinner. Its right on the beach and there was a nice breeze, very comfortable to eat there. The food and service was excellent. We the took our leftovers and headed home. Just chilled the rest of the evening.

Fried green tomatos and shrimp

Eating Drinking at Shaggys"s

Nana made a quilt for Ashley

Sammi,Ashley,Kristi,Mackenna