PART 3 - Visiting Some of Our Florida Family

Danny, Tina, Mike, uncle Roger and Steve

We left the resort a little before noon on Thursday morning and headed two hours East to Port St Lucie. We arrived at my Aunt and Uncle’s house and my Cousin Steve was there. We got the royal tour and almost jumped in the pool but decided that it was a little too cool.

We hopped into our cars and we followed them to Sal’s Italian Restaurant. We had a delicious pizza, shared some pictures. As you can see, it was one of those meat lovers pizza’s – delish! We followed them to Publix after lunch and picked up a few essentials. 

We got the Focus washed and headed back to the Resort. We hung out in our new home on wheels, watched a Bob Dylan, Green Day and an Adele Concert on our new internet STREAM GENIE. If you have never heard of it, it is a box that hooks up to your Internet and your TV and makes it able for you to view virtually any channel in the world that is streaming on the Internet. It is amazing! 

Daniel can watch Brazilian TV and I can watch Channel 8 – WTNH in New Haven from anywhere in the Country – if I wanted to , of course. For more information, contact our good friend Wayne Garrison at 203-522-1916 or on Facebook and he will get you the info and a demo if it interests you. It costs about $325 and is guaranteed for 5 years. 

Throw your cable and its high monthly charges out the window! I was paying Spectrum/Charter $240 a month for Internet, Phone and Cable. Wayne mentioned this to me over a year ago but I was skeptical. I am no longer skeptical! Imagine that!

We were enjoying ourselves so much and it was such a calm peaceful place that we asked if we could stay through the weekend. I would not be able to do the paperwork that I needed to do in Bushnell over the weekend, so why not stay? We were lucky enough that there was a site available, even though we had to pick up and move 2 sites over – it was all worth it!

On Friday, Daniel had a few projects on the RV that he wanted to do. One was cleaning and repainting the bicycle tow bar. So, off I went into Clewiston to the local ACE Hardware Store and he started taking the whole contraption apart. The rack is part of the towing set-up for the car, so it was quite involved. I got some sandpaper and black Krylon paint. 

I also bought a brush, squeegee and telescoping wand to clean the RV along with a nice water nozzle. Daniel spent the rest of he daylight time finishing up cleaning and spraying and the rack looked like new when he was done.

Friday night there were many more people at the Resort so we decided to go to the Lodge for dinner. It wasn’t a large menu but some great homemade/handmade burgers and a couple of chicken items. We decided on the grilled chicken and Daniel had a Ceasar salad and I had mine over a nice selection from the Salad Bar. 

We met a couple of new friends (one who was born in Trumbull!!!) and then headed back to the rig. Later on, I did some computer work and Daniel went back to the Lodge to see if he could play some Pool. 

Saturday, we decided to stay at the resort and to hang out at the pool. It was cloudy and windy and cool so it wasn’t perfect weather for the pool but Daniel and a few other visitors were brave enough to get into the water but everyone had the same response when coming out into the cool air!

Ahhhhhhh!!! I got to talk to a new friend named Richard who was born in Trumbull and lived there until after College – I believe he went to UCONN and moved out west to work for a large corporation there. He remembered a lot about Trumbull and the area but had not been there in a while.

On Sunday, which was also not a typical Florida Day, Daniel picked up and stowed away all the stuff that we had brought out. We wanted to be ahead of things as our Friend David Labbe from Ft Lauderdale came out to meet us, spent some time and even treated us to lunch at the lodge. 

Mike, David and Danny

We had a nice visit and he headed home, we then left for Ft Lauderdale ourselves to meet, Tim Kandel, a longtime online friend of Daniel’s. It was about an hour and a half to Ft Lauderdale and he made plans to take us to J Marks on US 1 in Ft Lauderdale. We had close to a three hour dinner. 

Had some great food and conversation and then Tim invited us back to see his new apartment. We hit the road back after 11pm and hit some doggone traffic round the Airport. They had I595 totally closed for construction, however no one ever told the GPS!!! We drove in circles, following the GPS for a few minutes until I got off the highway to get some gas and look at the map. We drove through the City and picked up Rt 75 after the construction and made it back to the resort about 2pm.

Danny and Tim

It was ZZZZ time as we were leaving on Monday morning around 11am, heading to Punta Gorda for lunch and then on to the Sumter Oak RV Park in Bushnell which would become our new Domicile!

See Y`all next time!!

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