You probably already know what I recently learned: “snowbirds” is what you call retired people who live up north but spend their winters down south, Florida or Arizona pretty much. This means we’re not snowbirds (we plan on spending all our summers and winters where it’s moderate!), but we’re blending in quite nicely with those […]
Tag: Florida
Dispatches from a Child Bride
That’s what I feel like here in this Imperial Bonita Springs RV park because it’s limited to residents age 55 and over. In other words, everyone is old, and apparently some people can tell I’m not. When Tracy and I come and go from the Airstream, which is right by the horseshoe courts, the rowdy […]
Florida Version of Best-yet Campground?
Over the summer we ended up spending three weeks in Washburn, Wisconsin because we happened upon a county campground on Lake Superior that suited us so well. After only a few days here in Bonita Springs, Florida, I’m thinking this place hits some of the same sweets spots. Good Neighbor This is Liz’s camper. She’s […]
Good Vibes at Imperial Bonita Estates
That’s the name of the campground (aka “RV Resort”) we’re staying in through December, until we head to the Keys. A Campsite with a View I mentioned last entry that we lucked out on our corner site that backs up to the Imperial River, and how lovely it is, with its tannin-stained water, herons and […]
Psyched about Solar and Our December Campground
Yay, we’re back in the Airstream! I actually slept for several gosh darn hours in a row last night in my own bed. This was after I cleaned the fridge (it had grown mold while in the heat of the shop), waited for it and the freezer to cool again, and moved our food back […]
Fun Pics as We Leave the AirBnB Vacay
Goodbye, weird RV resort! Goodbye, tons of Christmas decorations! (Although the next place we go to, I saw an ad for a Christmas golf cart parade ….) Goodbye shuffleboard, and good riddance) (Tracy beat the socks off me, had I been wearing any.) Goodbye bear that freaked Banjo out during our morning walk. Turns out, […]
Okay, We’ve Had Enough
Not of living on the road! We’ve had enough of this living-in-a-house business. We’ve been in this AirBnB for three days. The washer was replaced, so I did all our laundry. The TV is a treat, but all that’s on is the same terrible stuff we used to not watch. We resorted to scrolling through […]
I’m Glad My Fate Includes Keeping My Eyeballs
Yes, we’re taking a break from the trailer, by accident in a trailer in an RV park! But this place is more like the ”tiny house” park model I was obsessed with back in Virginia and a lot less like a rickedy old mobile home than I feared. What I’m Loving Yeah, I can spin […]
I Feel Like Oedipus
Just the “I can’t escape my fate” part, not the “marry my mother, kill my father, then poke out my eyes” part. We’re in Naples to get solar panels and lithium batteries installed on the Airstream, so we’re at an RV park just a couple of miles down the road from the solar installation place. […]
An Everglades Thanksgiving
Technically we’re at the very north edge of the Everglades, at Big Cypress National Preserve. Our campground is just a paved loop around a pond, with alligator warning signs every few feet. Our camp host told us as we pulled in, “Now if y’all go outside at night, be sure to shine a flashlight under […]
