Colt Creek State Park was opened to the public in January of 2007, but didn't open their 34-site full-facility campground until 2018, the same year we began our RV travels.
We had reservations to camp here back in March of 2021, but thanks to a mechanical problem with ROVER's air shocks we had to cancelour reservation. Those shocks have now been removed from the truck and we are finally able to visit this park.
This is our 31st camping visit to a Florida State Park in THE POD, and counting our visits before RVing we have now camped in 52 of the 55 Florida State Parks where RV camping is offered.
Colt Creek State Park is located just north of Lakeland, a city with a population of just over 112,000 residents. The park is surrounded by several different Wildlife Management Areas and consequently we are seeing abundant wildlife in the form of mainly deer.
A few days ago another couple of 20-year long friends reached out when they noticed we were heading towards Florida and asked if we would have time to stop by and say hello.
Norma and Doug moved away from South Florida several years before we did and spent some years traveling before finding their current home in Central Florida.
They were able to purchase their "perfect home". It checked all their must have boxes: ✅-It's on a good sized lake with a private backyard, ✅-It's on a dead end street in a quiet neighborhood, ✅-It's a modest sized 3-bedroom/2-bathroom affordable older home (built in 1987). And the bonus ✅ is the house sits on a 1½-acre lot with a circular driveway that was perfect to be able to park their travel trailer next to the house.
Since moving into the home they've sold their travel trailer to a friend and now spend most of their time enjoying their new home. They are both nearly a decade older than Tricia and I, respectively, and I suspect that a decade from now we will come to nearly the same conclusion they did, which for us, may be to spend 3-months sitting still and 9-months on the road, we'll just have to wait and see!
Outside of the photo is an A/C'd shed-like structure that is used as a hobby space.
Which is fine until all 150 of them show up at once and take over the yard.
Our original plan was to meet them at their house at 10AM and then go out for lunch around noon. Norma had a Board of Directors zoom meeting at 2PM she needed to participate in, but when she realized it was actually at 1PM we had to alter our plans.
It actually worked out in our favor, because instead of restaurant food, Doug treated us to some of his made-from-scratch spaghetti meat sauce and garlic toast. YUMMY!
When 1PM was drawing near we said our farewells and headed out to the laundromat, then the Walmart for 3-gallons of drinking water and some gasoline.
Then it was just a matter of driving back to the campground to prepare to leave in the morning.
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