We've been home now for 6 days and it looks like we may have another trip in our future - not one that we had planned.
According to the tropical weather forecast and this one will be caused by Hurricane Irma. We are watching the weather and news forecasts for Irma and planning on where we could go if the path takes her near us and how strong she will be.
We have 5 oak trees on our property and our trailer is parked under the branches of 2 trees and a couple of other oak trees are close enough that their branches could cause some damage to the trailer.
This last week we've just been putting cleaning the trailer and trailer's refrigerator and normal everyday housekeeping stuff. All the while, keeping one eye and ear on the weather forecast.
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Friday, August 25, 2017
Back Home from Anastasia State Park
We got up this morning about our 8:00-8:30 time and had coffee and breakfast. Then we started breaking camp. Since check-out time here is 1:00 and we are only 166 miles from, there wasn't really a need for us to rush this morning.
It was about 11:30 by the time we left Anastasia State Park Campground after dumping our black and gray water tanks at the dump station. We went south on A1A to FL-312 and then west to I-95 and then south. We stopped at a BP station to get gas and paid $2.899 a gallon for premium grade.
We stopped for lunch at 12:15 at a Wendy's at Exit 289 at Palm Coast. Then we headed on home and arrived here a little before 3:00. We unloaded the frig and whatever we needed for tonight and left everything else in the trailer until tomorrow.
It's good to be back home. Since we had Wendy's for lunch, we opted to have turkey sandwiches for supper. The pasta salad that I made before we left home is long gone.
Tomorrow we'll finish unloading the trailer - which means LAUNDRY and then vacuuming, mopping the trailer floors, and dusting.
It was about 11:30 by the time we left Anastasia State Park Campground after dumping our black and gray water tanks at the dump station. We went south on A1A to FL-312 and then west to I-95 and then south. We stopped at a BP station to get gas and paid $2.899 a gallon for premium grade.
We stopped for lunch at 12:15 at a Wendy's at Exit 289 at Palm Coast. Then we headed on home and arrived here a little before 3:00. We unloaded the frig and whatever we needed for tonight and left everything else in the trailer until tomorrow.
It's good to be back home. Since we had Wendy's for lunch, we opted to have turkey sandwiches for supper. The pasta salad that I made before we left home is long gone.
Tomorrow we'll finish unloading the trailer - which means LAUNDRY and then vacuuming, mopping the trailer floors, and dusting.
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Last Day at Anastasia State Park
We kind of took it easy today. We drove over to Camping World at St. Augustine out on I-95 late this morning. We took Tinker with us and bought him a new dog harness that we found there. Mike also bought a sewer hose and fitting and a trouble light.
We stopped at a Burger King on FL-16 to have lunch. We left Tinker in the car with the A/C running and the doors locked while we had lunch. Of course, we brought him a small piece of hamburger as a treat for staying in the car. Then we went back to the campground.
Then later this afternoon Mike and I drove over to the Island Beach Shop and Grill to buy ice.
While we were there, we walked out on the boardwalk to take a look at the beach there.
We spent the rest of today just relaxing. Tomorrow we head back home. I have a list of places to visit whenever we come back to St. Augustine. There is so much history here that it isn't possible to visit everything and do justice to them.
We stopped at a Burger King on FL-16 to have lunch. We left Tinker in the car with the A/C running and the doors locked while we had lunch. Of course, we brought him a small piece of hamburger as a treat for staying in the car. Then we went back to the campground.
Then later this afternoon Mike and I drove over to the Island Beach Shop and Grill to buy ice.
While we were there, we walked out on the boardwalk to take a look at the beach there.
We spent the rest of today just relaxing. Tomorrow we head back home. I have a list of places to visit whenever we come back to St. Augustine. There is so much history here that it isn't possible to visit everything and do justice to them.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Sightseeing in St. Augustine - Castillo de San Marcos & more
We left the campground on Anastasia Island this morning about 10:30 and drove over to St. Augustine. We parked the car at the Old Town Trolley lot on N. Ponce de Leon Blvd. We had bought tickets for the Trolley for 2 days and yesterday we rode it around St. Augustine checking out the different sights. Today we will be getting off of the trolley to visit some of the sights that we saw yesterday. We got our tickets for today and it wasn't too long before the next trolley picked us up.
We had planned our day so that we would arrive at the stop nearest Meehan's Irish Pub so we could have lunch there. Mike ordered the Reuben Roll (corned beef and sauerkraut in a spring roll wrapper, deep fried with Kerrygold cheese sauce & Thousand Island). I ordered the Reuben sandwich (corned beef, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese on marbled rye). It would have been nice to have a couple of beers with lunch, but since we had a lot of walking to do this afternoon we opted to have sweet tea. We had both been looking forward to eating at Meehan's and we weren't disappointed - I could go again!
Then we walked across the street from Meehan's to go visit the Castillo de San Marcos.
We spotted this RV from Europe in the parking lot and had to take a photo or two.
The entrance fee for Castillo de San Marcos is $15 for adults, but with our Senior Passes it was free. The Castillo de San Marcos is the only 17th century military construction in existence and is the oldest masonry fortress in the U.S. The building of the Castillo was started in 1672 and completed by 1695. It is built of coquina which is a type of limestone made from seashell fragments that solidified over time.
We explored the different exhibits in the lower part of the Castillo; soldiers' quarters,
a storeroom,
and British soldiers' quarters where 2 men shared
We had planned our day so that we would arrive at the stop nearest Meehan's Irish Pub so we could have lunch there. Mike ordered the Reuben Roll (corned beef and sauerkraut in a spring roll wrapper, deep fried with Kerrygold cheese sauce & Thousand Island). I ordered the Reuben sandwich (corned beef, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese on marbled rye). It would have been nice to have a couple of beers with lunch, but since we had a lot of walking to do this afternoon we opted to have sweet tea. We had both been looking forward to eating at Meehan's and we weren't disappointed - I could go again!
Then we walked across the street from Meehan's to go visit the Castillo de San Marcos.
We spotted this RV from Europe in the parking lot and had to take a photo or two.
The entrance fee for Castillo de San Marcos is $15 for adults, but with our Senior Passes it was free. The Castillo de San Marcos is the only 17th century military construction in existence and is the oldest masonry fortress in the U.S. The building of the Castillo was started in 1672 and completed by 1695. It is built of coquina which is a type of limestone made from seashell fragments that solidified over time.
We explored the different exhibits in the lower part of the Castillo; soldiers' quarters,
a storeroom,
and British soldiers' quarters where 2 men shared
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
St. Augustine Trolley Tour
We got a up earlier than usual and after walking Tinker, feeding him and having our coffee, we drove into St. Augustine to go on the Trolley Tour. We crossed the Bridge of Lions a little after 9:00.
We parked at the parking garage at the Visitor Information Center for $3 for the day - that was the discounted price with our trolley tickets. Then we walked across the street to the Trolley Welcome Center in time for the 9:30 trolley.
We passed by Flagler College where we saw a fence made from chains and spiked balls,
the Villa Zorayda Museum in a house built by the Boston Millionaire Franklin W. Smith in 1883 and was inspired by the 12th-century Moorish Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain.
Then by the Lightner Museum in what was the Hotel Alcazar built by Henry Flagler in 1888 in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style,
the St. Augustine Distillery that is in the FP&L Ice Plant building built in 1907. The plant was the first in
We parked at the parking garage at the Visitor Information Center for $3 for the day - that was the discounted price with our trolley tickets. Then we walked across the street to the Trolley Welcome Center in time for the 9:30 trolley.
We passed by Flagler College where we saw a fence made from chains and spiked balls,
the Villa Zorayda Museum in a house built by the Boston Millionaire Franklin W. Smith in 1883 and was inspired by the 12th-century Moorish Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain.
Then by the Lightner Museum in what was the Hotel Alcazar built by Henry Flagler in 1888 in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style,
the St. Augustine Distillery that is in the FP&L Ice Plant building built in 1907. The plant was the first in
Monday, August 21, 2017
Relaxing at Anastasia State Park
We really didn't do much today. We walked Tinker around our circle in the campground a few times and just relaxed. We grilled out for lunch - hot dogs and had pasta salad. For dinner Mike grilled a couple of steaks and we had baked potatoes and Merlot wine.
Our Verizon service is good here, so we checked emails and I paid some bills electronically.
We also checked on the Trolley Tours for St. Augustine and purchased tickets online. There is so much to see in St. Augustine, that we bought 2-day tickets for the trolley tour. We paid $46.34 for tickets for both of us. The trolley tour has 23 stops and we plan on going tomorrow and again on the next day. That way we can visit some attractions each day and not try to do it all in one day.
We have been on Old Town Trolley Tours in Boston and Key West. We have enjoyed each and every one. I think the trolleys run about every 15 minutes or so, so it's easy to get off at one spot, look around and then get back on another trolley at the same stop.
Our Verizon service is good here, so we checked emails and I paid some bills electronically.
We also checked on the Trolley Tours for St. Augustine and purchased tickets online. There is so much to see in St. Augustine, that we bought 2-day tickets for the trolley tour. We paid $46.34 for tickets for both of us. The trolley tour has 23 stops and we plan on going tomorrow and again on the next day. That way we can visit some attractions each day and not try to do it all in one day.
We have been on Old Town Trolley Tours in Boston and Key West. We have enjoyed each and every one. I think the trolleys run about every 15 minutes or so, so it's easy to get off at one spot, look around and then get back on another trolley at the same stop.
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Arrival at Anastasia State Park
This morning before we hitched up the trailer, Mike went to Murphy to get gas in the Pilot. He paid $2.769 a gallon for premium grade. Then after he got home, we hitched up the trailer and finished loading our stuff for the trip.
We left the house at 11:45 and stopped at Burger King here in Sebastian for lunch before getting on I-95 north. We stayed on I-95 up to Exit 311 and got on FL-207 to FL-312 which took us east to A1A north to Anastasia Park Road. We arrived at the state park a little after the check-in time of 3:00.
After checking in, we went to our campsite on Coquina Circle. We are in campsite 119. It is a back-in site with water and electric hookups with a lot of trees between us and the next campsites. The camping fee is $28 a night, but with our Florida Senior Resident discount we are paying $14 a night.
After setting up camp, we had a couple of cold beers and then Mike grilled hot dogs for supper. I had fixed a pasta salad yesterday and we had that and potato chips with our hot dogs.
Coquina Circle is the first circle inside the campground and there are 6 more circles in a section north of Coquina Circle. So we shouldn't have a lot of campground traffic in our area.
We left the house at 11:45 and stopped at Burger King here in Sebastian for lunch before getting on I-95 north. We stayed on I-95 up to Exit 311 and got on FL-207 to FL-312 which took us east to A1A north to Anastasia Park Road. We arrived at the state park a little after the check-in time of 3:00.
After checking in, we went to our campsite on Coquina Circle. We are in campsite 119. It is a back-in site with water and electric hookups with a lot of trees between us and the next campsites. The camping fee is $28 a night, but with our Florida Senior Resident discount we are paying $14 a night.
After setting up camp, we had a couple of cold beers and then Mike grilled hot dogs for supper. I had fixed a pasta salad yesterday and we had that and potato chips with our hot dogs.
Coquina Circle is the first circle inside the campground and there are 6 more circles in a section north of Coquina Circle. So we shouldn't have a lot of campground traffic in our area.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
August 2017
Earlier this month Mike and I drove over to Kissimmee to visit with my sister-in-law Elaine to see the dog that she had adopted. We took Elaine and Buttons to the pet store and got Buttons a halter and a stuffed toy. Buttons really likes her Lamb Chop and we all enjoyed watching her play with her new toy.
I went to a genealogy meeting last week and then went to lunch with Carol, Susan, Polly and Cindy at the Off the Rail restaurant - which is a fairly new restaurant in Vero. Then after lunch I went back to the library and looked through a microfilm I had gotten from the Family History Center in Salt Lake City of Johnson Co., IL deed records for my Jones and Utley ancestors.
Mike made campground reservations for Ortona South Campground which is west of Lake Okeechobee for January 2018 and Myakka River Park which is east of Sarasota for April 2018.
Tomorrow we are leaving to go up to Anastasia State Park at St. Augustine for 5 days. This morning I took Tinker to the groomer, so he is all bathed and groomed for the trip.
I went to a genealogy meeting last week and then went to lunch with Carol, Susan, Polly and Cindy at the Off the Rail restaurant - which is a fairly new restaurant in Vero. Then after lunch I went back to the library and looked through a microfilm I had gotten from the Family History Center in Salt Lake City of Johnson Co., IL deed records for my Jones and Utley ancestors.
Mike made campground reservations for Ortona South Campground which is west of Lake Okeechobee for January 2018 and Myakka River Park which is east of Sarasota for April 2018.
Tomorrow we are leaving to go up to Anastasia State Park at St. Augustine for 5 days. This morning I took Tinker to the groomer, so he is all bathed and groomed for the trip.
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