Thursday, January 31, 2013

Florida - January 2013

On January 10th, we arrived in the Fort Meyers area, staying in Estero at the Koreshan State Historic Site. Turns out it was the only state park in the area with camping.

We headed to the Tampa area on Saturday, January 12th, staying at Lazy Days in Seffner for 5 nights. My sister Cathy, niece Michelle and nephews Benjamin, Brandon and Cameron, drove up from Palm Harbor to see us on Sunday.


On Monday we drove to Safety Harbor to see Julie’s Aunt Jo. On Tuesday, Julie and I both took the Lazy Days RV Driver’s Confidence Course. It was very good with classroom instruction in the morning and practical RV driving in the afternoon. We drove their Itasca Meridian motorhome around the campground, navigating many turns and around parked cars.

On Thursday, January 17th, we headed back to Mims (near Titusville) to stay at Willow Lakes RV & Golf Resort with Julie’s sister Cindy and brother-in-law Terry for 4 more nights. We headed to Fort Wilderness at Disney World on Monday for 3 nights. It was a nice RV park and convenient to the Disney parks. We walked to the dock and then took a ferry boat to Magic Kingdom on Tuesday.






















Wednesday we went to see Animal Kingdom for our first time.



We went on the “African Safari”, which was very good open-air safari vehicle tour of a lush African savanna, home to many exotic animals.


After Animal Kingdom, we went to Disney’s Hollywood Studio for a couple of hours. It was a very long day.  On Thursday, January 24th, we left Disney and headed to Tallahassee. We met up with my sister Marcia and bother-in-law Mike who were headed to the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras in their motorhome. After a night in Tallahassee, we spent a night in Biloxi and a night in Lake Charles.

We said goodby to Mike and Marcia on Sunday, January 27th and headed to Austin to spend 3 nights to visit Julie's mom and nephew. We left on Wednesday, January 30th to head back to Colorado Springs with overnight stops in San Angelo and Amarillo. It was a fun 38-day trip, covering over 5,000 miles.

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