Week One, begin Dec 1, 2010

Left Oshkosh for our winter south with temps dropping quickly, night in the teens, highs in the day in the 20's.  First overnight in Effingham, Il, Wal-Mart.  Cranked up the generator and all the heat we could, both furnaces, electric heaters, and the fireplace.  Well, too much!!  Blew a breaker, all out.  Couldn't find where.  Called RV expert friend Gary Galow, gave me some ideas, finally found breaker on the Generator.  Thank God!

On the Road

Wednesday, headed towards Nashville, Tn.  Wanted to visit our favorite Nashville stop, the Gaylord Opryland Hotel / Convention Center, particularly after the Cumberland River spring flood, said it had 10' of water in the facility, and those of you that have been there know how beautiful it is.  Well, unbelievable, after only six months the facility is totally repaired and more beautiful than ever.  A must see!!

Back to the coach, no water.  Water leaking outside. After a through check found water filter frozen and broke off mounting.  Oh, this is getting fun!  Left home without winterizing thinking with heater on would prevent freezing.  Wrong!  Get out of  " Dodge" earlier or winterize!  Well, anyway, was able to jump hoses around the filter and now have water.  Temps getting a little better, highs in the 40's here in Nashville.  Overnight at the Two Rivers RV bark, again a favorite of ours here in Nashville.

Thursday AM, weather good , nice driving day.  Headed for Montgomery, Al, finding a nice transient RV park just south of the city.  Park owner directed us to a rural route through Alabama country side en route to our destination, Ocala, Fl.  So took route Friday AM, beautiful day and pretty countryside, but very narrow road so travel slow between 45-50 mph.  As the result we would have arrived in our park in the dark, so decided to overnight in Lake City, Fl  Wal-Mart.  Lot was very busy and full, but we finally found a spot and by bed time was very comfortable and quiet, even with our gen set running all night.

Our Park

Our Site

Saturday AM early start for our park, stopping for breakfast and filling our propane tank.  Checked in around 11:00Am.  Nice welcome and our site looked great.  Settled in and walked park and the Dingy / Kayak launch area.  Looks nice.  Mid afternoon got a call from friends Skip & Marlene Zacher, coming through Ocala in route to their place in the Keys.  Joined them for happy hour and dinner.

Sunday nice and sunny, temps 70 degrs.  Relaxed and took in the Packer game, no local broadcast so listened to on Sirius satellite radio.  Great Game!

Monday, toured downtown Ocala stopping at the visitors center gathering info on kayaking, biking, parks, entertainment, etc.  Lots to do here.  Really nice area, just need warmer weather.  Warmer by weekend in 70's, then another cold front highs in the 50's.  Oh well, no sympathy from Wisconsinites.

End of week One 12/6/10