Our Travel Adventures

11/30/2014 Left home at 12:00 p.m. heading south to Key West Florida   for Becky's Birthday.  First stop, Collier Seminole State Park.  Nice small park. Collier-Seminole State Park Highlights Video: Experience the natural beauty and wildlife of the Everglades, Collier-Seminole State Park . The 7,271-acre park lies partly within the great mangrove swamp of southern Florida, one of the largest mangrove swamps in the world. Collier-Seminole also contains one of the three original stands of the rare royal palm in Florida.  The park is the site of a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, the last existing Bay City Walking Dredge . Built in 1924, it was used to build the Tamiami Trail Highway (U.S. 41) through the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp, linking Tampa and Miami and opening southwest Florida to travelers. National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, the last existing Bay City Walking Dredge . Built in 1924 Dugout Can

10 Thanksgiving Facts You Probably Didn’t Know thanksgiving facts Image: www.gospelherald.com Thanksgiving is next week, which means unlimited turkey, cranberry sauce and gravy (and don’t forget the desserts!). While you’re sitting around shooting the breeze with your family between meals, you can shell out these interesting Thanksgiving facts: Although the “First Thanksgiving” was in 1621 (it lasted three days!), it didn’t become a national holiday until 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. Unlike on your family’s table, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pies, apples, pears, milk, corn on the cob, and cranberry sauce were not present at the first Thanksgiving dinner in Plymouth. The first Thanksgiving wasn’t really Thanksgiving as we now know it. Thanksgiving was a religious festival affair where Pilgrims would spend all day praying. Thanksgiving was also observed at different times of the year, not just on Thanksgiving. Also, if it were a true Thanksgiving, the Natives wouldn’t have been

11/16/2014 Hayley and Brandon left for home around 11:00 a.m.  Becky and I cleaned up and put everything away.  Drove to park store and parked then road our bikes around the Park.  Ate lunch then headed home.  On way we stopped at Little Manatee State Park.  Checked out the camp sites.  Nice little park. 11/15/2014 Brandon had to go to work today.  Hayley Becky and I went on a Trail hike.   Campfire and good camp food when Brendan gets back later this evening. Brandon had to work late.  Fixed hamburgers and hotdogs for dinner.  Little warmer.  Low about 51°.  Found leak in mattress.  11/14/2014 Cool today and overcast until around noon.  Becky and I rode our bikes around, took a short hike, and road the tram with the Park ranger.  Becky volunteered to be the director on a short movie the ranger was making.  Cool evening. Hayley and Brandon arrived about 8:30 p.m. after work.  We ate dinner and had smoors around a camp fire.  Cool e

11/3/2014 Monday evening Becky and I decided to watch a little TV in our RV.  We discovered we had no reception on any channel.  Not completely surprised we usually get some sort of signal.  After several attempts to adjust the antenna one station at a time I decided something else was wrong.  Tuesday I went to Walmart and purchased a new TV, 19" that runs on a 12 volt transformer.  First TV I've seen that actually ran on 12 volts.  I returned to the RV and installed the new TV.  Everything worked great.  I guess sometime we lost the receiver on our old TV.  Probably using the inverter which is not a pure inverter.  After installing we were able to receive 15 stations, but they were not the best pic.  Myakka River State Park area is know for it's poor reception for TV's, and Cell Phones.  I thought I would take advantage of the area and try to get the best reception I could.  Next step was to purchase a new  antenna booster.  I thought Radio Shack would be my best bet