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HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!

TUESDAY

TRAVEL DAY
STOP #251

Today's travels have us arriving at St. George Island State Park in Eastpoint, FL. Neither one us us have ever visited this particular Florida State Park. But after tonight it will be the 50th Florida State Parks where one or both of us have spent the night camping. There are only 5 other Florida State Parks that have RV camping that we still need to visit.

St. George Island State Park is very similar to the other 6 Florida panhandle state parks in that it contains miles of unspoiled and undeveloped beachfront property. We're sure glad the State was able to aquire all the properties to protect them and give the general public a place to visit the white sand beaches of the panhandle.

The campground here is on the bayside of the island so there are no direct Gulf of Mexico views from the sites, but just a short walk over the sand dunes and entrance drive you'll find 10 miles of secluded beaches.


Accessing the beach just before sunrise.


Sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico.


The high sand dunes between the shoreline and the campground help protect it from storm surges of the frequent hurricanes.


However not all of the trees survived the latest batch of hurricanes.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Some of you may be wondering what it's like to celebrate the hoildays on the road, away from family and friends.

Well just because we no longer have a traditional house or a yard to decorate doesn't mean we are missing out on all that fun. Tricia does a very good job at maintaining a festive holiday vibe inside THE POD. She has window clings and small decorations dislayed everywhere you look from the bedroom, to the bathroom, to the front door, to the kitchen and into the dining room.

Granted, you can see pretty much everything from standing in the middle of the trailer and just spinning around 360°, but she decorates for all the seasons. We have sets of Red, White & Blue window clings for patriotic holidays like Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day. We also have a set for autumn and Halloween time.

Rest assured we are not letting the holidays slip past unnoticed.


The kitchen and front door.


The daytime view over the bar and sofa.


The same view at night!

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3 DAYS OF NO CELL SIGNAL OR ELECTRICITY

SATURDAY

TRAVEL DAY
STOP #250

After saying goodbye to our friends in Jacksonville we drove back over to Tallahassee to pick up THE POD from Master Applied Coatings.

When we both first saw the trailer under the fluorescent lights we both agreed the price we paid for the ceramic coating to protect the outer skin of THE POD was well worth it. If you overlook the few dings we've put in THE POD over the last three years it looks as good or better than new.

It was already early afternoon and we still had an hour or more drive to get to our campsite for the night. When we arrived we were the only ones there, other than the campground host. We got settled into our site just as the rain started coming down.


Campsite #15 at Wright Lake Campground.


No shade from the trees, but no sun for three days for our solar panels. 🙁


Wright Lake behind our campsite.

SUNDAY - It rained for most of last night and the forecast is for more of the same and colder temperatures for the next few days. There is a short break in the weather this afternoon so we are going to head out into town for a few groceries, some gasoline and a good meal.

We chose to eat at the Family Coastal Restaurant in Eastpoint, FL. They don't have a website or a Facebook Page, but they don't need one. The place was packed on this Sunday afternoon and the food was delicious, also fairly priced. It was obviously a locals, no frills, kind of place, but as outsiders we felt welcomed.

I ordered the Topped Grouper Fingers Plate, which was a healthy portion of fish, shrimp and scallops with a creamy and savory cheese sauce on top. It also came with two sides and a pair of hushpuppies. Tricia had the Grouper Fingers Meal with a pair of hushpuppies, onion rings and the salad bar. We both ended up skipping dinner later that day.

Before we head back to the campground we're going to each download several new books from Kindle Unlimited and get ready to just chill out for a few days. There is no cell signal at the campground and no electricity, so we're going to have to bundle up to stay warm. The nights are going to be in the mid-40s and the daytime highs are only going to be in the upper 50s.

I don't know about Tricia, but I read four books during the three days we were here!

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3 COATS OF CERAMIC TO GO, PLEASE!

MONDAY

TRAVEL DAY
STOP #249

This morning we were awake early and off the campsite before 7:30AM so that we could arrive at Master Applied Coatings where we are getting THE POD ceramic coated. This protectant should make the trailer much easier to keep clean and help protect the exterior against the harsh enviroments we travel through. We knew this was going to be important as we plan our Alaskan Adventure for next summer.


With big garage doors in the side of the building you're conveniently able to drive your trailer all the way indoors before unhitching, then exit through another bay door at the corner of the building. With 20,000 square feet under roof there is plenty of room.


This location only opened last month and as you can see the future customer lounge area is still in the planning stages. That piece of equipment on the left is used to maneuver the trailers around inside the building.


THE POD is front and center awaiting his turn for a few coats of ceramic protectant.

TUESDAY - After dropping off THE POD in Tallahassee we made our way over to Jacksonville to visit friends and prepare ROVER to make the trip to Alaska. New front and rear shocks, plus better brake pads and rotors all around is about all it needs. We've already purchased new tires for both THE POD and ROVER so after this visit we should be all good to go.

With all this preparation nothing could possibly go wrong, right? We'll just have to wait and see.

Just before we arrived in Jacksonville yesterday we got a phone call from out of the blue from another friend we used to camp with back in South Florida. She is a flight attendant for American Airlines and as luck would have it she had an overnight layover in Jacksonville the next day so we made plans to "meetup", go to dinner and then check out the Illuminating Nature Event being held at the Cummer Museum of Arts and Gardens in downtown Jacksonville.

Before the museum we all ate a delicious dinner at the Mossfire Grill located just around the corner. We each selected a different Southwestern Cuisine menu item for our entrée, but we all agreed on desert and shared a slice of their Red Velvet Cake as recommended by our server.

The museum is located right on the St. Johns River, just south of where I-95 crosses the river and where you will also find the Eastern Terminus of the 2,460 mile long I-10. The Western Terminus is located near the Pacific Coast in Santa Monica, California.


One of a dozen or so infatable illuminaries located in the gardens along the river.


Imagine how beautiful the gardens appear in the springtime when all the flowers are in bloom.


This majectic oak tree dominated the back yard of the museum.


For those of you that don't know, that's Melissa, our flight attendant friend in the front yard of the museum, who was dancing around acting just a little "flighty".

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FLORIDA｜GEORGIA LINE

WEDNESDAY

TRAVEL DAY
STOP #248

We had plans to stay on our site until noon today before moving the short distance to our new site. But around 11:00AM the power went out in the campground and we called ahead to find out our next site was empty the night before and we could arrive earlier than the normal 4:00PM check-in time.

Finally something is going our way! We had no problems getting set up in our new site and had plenty of time before sunset to enjoy sitting around outside. Just before sunset our camping neighbor came outside with a large telephoto lens on her camera and started taking photos of the impressive sunset taking place over Lake Seminole.

On the opposite bank from where we are camped here in the Eastbank Campground in Georgia is the Three Rivers State Park in Florida, where we visited back in January this year.

You remember when we had all kinds of problems with keeping the correct time on our cell phones, due to the fact that the Eastern and Central Time Zone line goes right down the center of the lake. This time we were prepared and maunally set the time zone on our phones instead of letting them auto detect the time based on the GPS coordinates of which cell phone tower they were connecting through.


Campsite #26 here at the Army Corp of Engineers Eastbank Campground in Bainbridge, GA.


Enjoying the sunset on our first night here.

THURSDAY - Whenever were are camped in an Army Corp of Engineers Park there is almost always the guarantee of being nearby water. Also there is a good chance of there being a hydroelectric dam nearby and this place is no different.

What is different about this dam is when you drive across it you leave Georgia and enter into Florida about halfway across it. We didn't know that until we found out on our way to lunch back over in Florida at Johnny Mac's Sandwich Shop.


The front end of ROVER in this photo is in Florida...


...and the back end is in Georgia. Which means we are parked on the Florida Georgia Line!


If you look real close you can see THE POD dead center in it's campsite from the same location.

SATURDAY - Today there is a vintage camper group over at the Three Rivers State Park on the other side of Lake Seminole. For just a $3 park entry fee we decided it might be fun to go check them out.

There were only six vintage campers there but we got a photo of each to share with you all here. I won't even try to identify the make, model and year of each trailer, but they were all probably from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

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