We will be leaving here tomorrow....hopefully, we'll be back next year. There are tons of things to do here at the Park, and we have so many good friends living in the Sarasota area, too.
Getting the coach ready for the highway involves a lot of things, one of which is to get all the branches, twigs, and leaves off the top of the coach and the tops of the pullouts. Brian was on a ladder this morning cleaning all the rubbish. He stated it was like cleaning the gutters at home....ugh!! Now, we are more wiser, and will request sites that we will NOT be under a tree!
We paid our last visit to Philipi Creek Oyster Bar for lunch today. We have been there more than any other restaurant this year. A close second is The Lazy Lobster.
Day before yesterday we picked up a crock pot, and yesterday morning we put together a stew.....the smell was heavenly all day....and the evening meal was out of this world! Maybe because we were hungry? Anyway, this crockpot will be used a lot.
Yesterday we took a walk in the sunshine around to the small lake on the Park. There were miniature sailboats that were racing. These are remote controlled toys....and the owners of these little boats are older men. The wind was on and off, but we had a good time watching their maneuvers.
We have been watching the weather channel, along with the other people next to us. One pulled out this afternoon due to nasty weather coming to their home in KY. Thank goodness we'll be in Tampa until Saturday morning. Hopefully, the nastiness will head out to the Atlantic!
Here is a web photo album that I have set up for our travels:
http://picasaweb.google.com/aherns102
Cheers!
Deanna
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
January 29
Well, updating is fun! We are approaching the final days here at Sun N Fun Resort. Last week we saw the winter headquarters of the Lipizzaner Stallions...what fun! Those horses are real beauties.
We have tried to see all of our winter friends here in the Sarasota area: Jim and Doreen (Bruce Beach) are down in Bradenton, and we went to the Red Barn Flea Market....Doreen and I each bought a beautiful watch, and then went to dinner. Bill and Kay Ruckle introduced us to what will be known as our favorite restaurant in the area: The Lazy Lobster...yummmmm. Dick and Joyce Thams live in Burnt Store near Punta Gorda (hit really hard by the last hurricane). They took us out for a spin in their boat...a little choppy on the water then, so we came back and went to lunch. It seems like all we do here in Florida is eat! They were here in Sarasota this past weekend. They are antique car enthusiasts, have a beautifully restored 1941 Cadillac convertible. There was a very big show on Sunday....hundreds of cars. Funny, I saw a 1955 Chevy Bel Aire, and it is an antique! I drove one of those in 1963!
We have been experiencing some cold weather here. Last night it was 42 degrees. But our coach has a heat pump, and we were toasty warm. Today it is sunny, reaching a high of 53! We have had a couple days of rain, but no huge storms, I guess we are lucky. But, when it rains during the night, the drops of rain are loud on the roof, waking us up several times.
One of the people we have met here have the slot next to us. They are Chuck and Alexis Ruby, who live in Holly, Michigan. All the people we have met here at the RV park are really really nice people. Everyone is out walking, looking at all the coaches. Just this morning a couple who came in last night dropped by. They have a 2003 Monaco Coach, and we invited them inside ours. We talked and talked and talked. They are from North Carolina. She is a quilter, so you know we didn't lack for anything to talk about!
Our future plans (one week out) will be to leave here on Wednesday 1/31, stay 3 nights at LazyDays, then up to Panama City FL for 3 nights, and then to New Orleans (60 miles NW) for 4 nights. We will drive the Jeep down to New Orleans for a full day of sightseeing, and yes, eating that great Louisiana food!!
Brian's hobby has changed: He now reads and reads and reads all the manuals to the coach until he has them memorized...haha....
If you like, you can leave a reply on this blog, we'd love to hear from you. Or, email us at daahern@comcast.net.
I'm going to try to update this blog once a week, so keep checking back for pictures.
Deanna
We have tried to see all of our winter friends here in the Sarasota area: Jim and Doreen (Bruce Beach) are down in Bradenton, and we went to the Red Barn Flea Market....Doreen and I each bought a beautiful watch, and then went to dinner. Bill and Kay Ruckle introduced us to what will be known as our favorite restaurant in the area: The Lazy Lobster...yummmmm. Dick and Joyce Thams live in Burnt Store near Punta Gorda (hit really hard by the last hurricane). They took us out for a spin in their boat...a little choppy on the water then, so we came back and went to lunch. It seems like all we do here in Florida is eat! They were here in Sarasota this past weekend. They are antique car enthusiasts, have a beautifully restored 1941 Cadillac convertible. There was a very big show on Sunday....hundreds of cars. Funny, I saw a 1955 Chevy Bel Aire, and it is an antique! I drove one of those in 1963!
We have been experiencing some cold weather here. Last night it was 42 degrees. But our coach has a heat pump, and we were toasty warm. Today it is sunny, reaching a high of 53! We have had a couple days of rain, but no huge storms, I guess we are lucky. But, when it rains during the night, the drops of rain are loud on the roof, waking us up several times.
One of the people we have met here have the slot next to us. They are Chuck and Alexis Ruby, who live in Holly, Michigan. All the people we have met here at the RV park are really really nice people. Everyone is out walking, looking at all the coaches. Just this morning a couple who came in last night dropped by. They have a 2003 Monaco Coach, and we invited them inside ours. We talked and talked and talked. They are from North Carolina. She is a quilter, so you know we didn't lack for anything to talk about!
Our future plans (one week out) will be to leave here on Wednesday 1/31, stay 3 nights at LazyDays, then up to Panama City FL for 3 nights, and then to New Orleans (60 miles NW) for 4 nights. We will drive the Jeep down to New Orleans for a full day of sightseeing, and yes, eating that great Louisiana food!!
Brian's hobby has changed: He now reads and reads and reads all the manuals to the coach until he has them memorized...haha....
If you like, you can leave a reply on this blog, we'd love to hear from you. Or, email us at daahern@comcast.net.
I'm going to try to update this blog once a week, so keep checking back for pictures.
Deanna
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Up until today
We left Michigan on Tuesday, 12/26/06 for Tampa to pick up our new motorhome. We drove down in our Jeep Liberty....certainly not the Lexus comfort, but we arrived in Tampa just before noon on Thursday the 28th. We stayed there at the dealership in their RV park over New Year's weekend, and left there on Wednesday the 3rd. Brian drove the coach, and I followed behind in the Jeep. We had walkie talkies to keep in communication. He did very well, and we arrived at Sun N Fun RV Resort an hour later....Sarasota is only 60 miles south of LazyDays RV dealership.
This is a huge rv park. I think there are about 1600 sites, but about 75% of the sites have dwellings on them the size of a trailer home. People who don't have motorhomes will fly down for the winter and stay in these. However, they have to buy the building, and then there are fees that are about $7000 annually.
There are so many activities that we can join in on, that we wouldn't be able to do them all. I have attended a quilting group that meets on Monday afternoons. I took a couple of my applique quilts as a "Newbie Show N Tell" -- I was a hit. Brian hasn't joined in any of the activities, but he reads the manuals and his newspapers with great diligence! My hero!! The coch is so full of gadgets, and it talkes a long time to go through all those manuals, again and again!
We have 6 families that we try to see while we are here: Thams, Giffels, Brereton, deAth, Ruckle, and Wood. We have met with them all, and it was good to see them and chat.
We will leave Sarasota next week on Wednesday morning to go to LazyDays to have some coach issues completed, then off heading west.
Sure hope that Highway 10 has thawed out by the time we get there. Please hold us in your thoughts. If it is nasty, we'll just change direction. Not sure where that direction will head, but it will certainly be warm!!
I will be attaching pictures on the next entry.
This is a huge rv park. I think there are about 1600 sites, but about 75% of the sites have dwellings on them the size of a trailer home. People who don't have motorhomes will fly down for the winter and stay in these. However, they have to buy the building, and then there are fees that are about $7000 annually.
There are so many activities that we can join in on, that we wouldn't be able to do them all. I have attended a quilting group that meets on Monday afternoons. I took a couple of my applique quilts as a "Newbie Show N Tell" -- I was a hit. Brian hasn't joined in any of the activities, but he reads the manuals and his newspapers with great diligence! My hero!! The coch is so full of gadgets, and it talkes a long time to go through all those manuals, again and again!
We have 6 families that we try to see while we are here: Thams, Giffels, Brereton, deAth, Ruckle, and Wood. We have met with them all, and it was good to see them and chat.
We will leave Sarasota next week on Wednesday morning to go to LazyDays to have some coach issues completed, then off heading west.
Sure hope that Highway 10 has thawed out by the time we get there. Please hold us in your thoughts. If it is nasty, we'll just change direction. Not sure where that direction will head, but it will certainly be warm!!
I will be attaching pictures on the next entry.
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