Dave's Parents Arrive in Florida!

In an effort to stay current with our blog here is a catchup post. As mentioned we stayed a night at The Great Outdoors, RV, Nature & Golf Resort in Titusville, FL. In the morning the boys and I got all cleaned up. We cleaned the inside of our motorhome, did the laundry and all took showers in preparation for my parent's arrival. We even got a car wash for our Saturn Vue "pull car." It was great picking up Pop and DeeDee from the Orlando airport and welcoming them into our "home." I gave up the "master bedroom" to my folks and decided to give our new leather pull-out coach I installed the other day an overnight try. The next day, after a run, homeschool, and some business I had to attended to, we we're off. We really didn't get very far though as we decided to stay the night at the Jetty Park Campground in Port Canaveral. This location is right there where cruise ships sail out into the Atlantic. (A few years ago Pop and DeeDee celebrated their 40th Anniversary and my mom's 60th birthday by taking the whole family, 14 in all at the time, to Disney World. The vacation included a 3 night stay on Disney's cruise ship, The Wonder. It was a fantastic family vacation!)

After getting set and giving the kids a chance to climb a tree, we headed out for a bite to eat at a Mexican restaurant. After dinner we stopped by the Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach to pick up some much needed gear for Florida's playgrounds (bathing suit, flip-flops, volleyball, boogie board, skim board, etc). A little more laundry at night, then bedtime.

We had a long day of driving on Friday (Saturday Cindi arrived into Miami) so after a run on a beautiful beach we headed south. We stayed on Florida's scenic A1A and hugged the coast to get an occasional gorgeous view of the Atlantic Ocean out on the left and intercoastal waters on the right. We veered inland near Vero Beach and realized this was once Dogertown back in the day (I grew up a huge LA Dodgers baseball fan). So we took a minor detour to check out the old facilities. And that is pretty much what we found old facilities. Dodgertown is now ghostown. So we took a couple pictures and moved on. Over the last several days I had my eye on pulling through the only Blue Beacon Truck/RV Wash in Florida.., at Fort Pierce. Having been parked outside over our 7 week holiday trip to California she needed a good shower. That is exactly what she got. Then the 65mph blow dry. For dinner, nothing too exciting. We truthfully stopped at one of those rest stops with food (common back east but not at all out west). After the stop we continued south until Miami where we tried to stay a night in the parking lot of the Miccosukee Casino west of Miami. Since it was Friday night it was absolutely packed. So we do what we always do and drove to a WM near the Miami Airport.