Love our new truck!

Vic has been doing a deep dive into everything to know about this vehicle. Our old truck was a 2011 and things have changed a lot in the last 14 years. The safety technology is amazing and boy we are glad to have it. My favorite thing is while we are hooked up if the change lane blinker goes on, the corresponding mirror shows the lane clearly without having to crane your neck. The way people speed up and try to drive around us no matter the left or right side, it’s a very helpful safety feature. We know we’ll be safe on the road and very glad we got it.

We’ve been at the Elks lodge in Titusville FL all this time and have rescheduled our next stop twice now. While we’ve been here we had a chance to meet up with Dawn and John, a couple from Wisconsin that we met in Key West 2 years ago. We visited with them at the campground at Patrick Space Force Base near Cocoa Beach. John is retired Navy and Dawn is more than half way through a law degree while holding down a full time job. (!) We love them and had such a good time chatting that I forgot to take a photo! Dawn sent this one.

We’ve become friendly with Suzanne and Terry, both nurses and new owners of a Brinkley camper. We watched a launch together. This launch is supposed to bring back Suni and Butch, who’ve been up there for almost 10 months!

Then we spent two days at Roy’s Big Foot getting our hydraulics fixed. One we knew needed rebuilding, then another one needed repair. Roy Trevino was a well known race car driver back in the day. There are pictures of him with various cars all over the office. The first morning we were there Roy called his assistant Laurie and took breakfast orders! Then he showed up with breakfast for everybody – us, another couple waiting for service on their camper (they got bumped a day on account of us), and the guys in the shop. That’s how he is, treat you like family. Great guy. He sure doesn’t act like he’s 84!

Then we moved over to an RV place near our friends Donna and Kim and spent Thursday with them. They made us an awesome meal of salmon, yellow rice, broccoli and red beets. Very colorful and tasty! Afterwards we watched Green Room, great cast and great movie.

Next stop the Elks Lodge in Zephyr Hills.

It’s quiet and the other campers are friendly. Also, you can’t beat $10 a night.

We met my sister Holly and her husband Andy for lunch at the Outback in Brandon FL, halfway between our location and their house in Bradenton. I had a medium rare filet mignon with a loaded baked potato. omg it was delicious. We had a great time catching up. They have decided the hurricanes are too much plus they miss their grandchild so they are moving back to NY.

We’ve visited all the friends and family we could and now we are making plans to head west. With our new truck we expect trouble free travels. Let’s see how that goes 😁.

Stay safe everyone! XO