This was the year we started the Great RV Adventure. Technically, we started the last few days of 2018, but for the sake of simplicity: January 1, 2019.
Florida
The first stop was Grand Lake RV Park in Citra, Florida. Citra is about 20 miles north of Ocala. Grand Lakes is a great park. Golf course, tennis courts, pickle ball, fishing lake – none of which we do, but it’s good to know it’s there. We spent a couple of months there to avoid winter. This is probably one of our favorite RV parks.
Daytona Beach Bike Week was a must. We stayed in Orange City RV just outside of Daytona. Orange City and Daytona have sister poker rooms and cruising Bike Week were fun while showing Melinda some of my old haunts. The weirdest thing was the owner of the Oyster Pub (one of the biggest and oldest bars in Daytona) remembered me, what I ate, and who I came in with… over 30 years later! Wow! We also did an airboat ride and saw a gaggle of alligators.
Airboat ride looking for gators in Florida
Next stop in the Great RV Adventure was Myrtle Beach. We stayed at the Apache Campground in North Myrtle and checked out Myrtle Beach Bike Week. Jake and Maggie seemed to have adapted well to the on-the-road lifestyle. As long as Melinda was close, they were happy.
After Myrtle, we spent a month back in Charlotte to see friends, doctors, etc. From there, we spent several weeks in Virginia, while Mel visited some of her agents. Virginia led to Pennsylvania (Hershey!) and then New England.
New England & New York
Paul standing under Niagara Falls
We stayed in Connecticut for a month but rode the bikes through Maine, etc. We took a boat tour of Providence Rhode Island. Melinda got to see the actual first First Baptist Church in the U.S. While in CT, I played quite a bit of cards at Mohegan Sun Casino and Foxwoods, both of which I had heard about for a long time.
We left New England and stayed a couple of nights in Schenectady, NY before making our way over to Niagara Falls for the 4th of July week. I didn’t think I would like it, but it was a blast!
After a stay in Ohio for her to visit with her family, we stayed in Wilmington, OH so she could go to the Nationwide Headquarters in Columbus. If you don’t know, Wilmington is in the middle of nowhere, and in Ohio, that is saying something!
Next up: Nashville
Melinda & TJ will ride in the Princess’s Carriage
The Great RV Adventure continued by staying a night in Bowling Green, we met our friend, TJ, who grew up in that area, and did the town. We had a hoot in Nashville. Besides the Grand Ole Opry, we did downtown Nashville at night. Hoot!
You can’t keep a good cowgirl down!
We spent a month in Tunica, parked in the Hollywoods Casino RV lot, and worked and enjoyed the local casinos.
We wove our way through Mississippi so Melinda could visit more of her agents and then stayed at Medina Lake near San Antonio, TX. She traveled while we were there, but we got to meet dozens of the local deer and roadrunner.
Texas
Fun & Sun RV in San Benito, TX – right at Mexico
Southbound, we landed at Fun & Sun RV in San Benito TX for the winter. Fun & Sun is a GREAT RV park. Besides a ton of new people we got to meet, without question, it had the most activities of any park we have stayed at. From computer clubs to quilting rooms, to remote control racing teams, to shuffleboard teams, this place had it all. There is no way you could fit in all the activities there. Fate had a slightly different plan though, as Covid hit and instead of just a couple of months there, we had to stay nearly 5. We could leave, but almost all the other RV parks were mandating a 2-week quarantine. So we stayed at Fun & Sun till nearly May.
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