Moving Day

It's cloudy and windy here and supposed to go down to the 40's tonight. Our site at the new place in Tamiami RV Park isn't open until tomorrow, so we're sort of boondocking in their overflow area tonight. Actually, boondocking means you "dry camp" with no hookups. We will have 20 AMP service electric so we can use our lights, TV, computers,......... and furnace, if needed.

The park we've been in for February, Raintree RV Resort, is nicer than our new one in that it has a lot more landscaping and palm trees, plus it's laid out with curves and half circles, making it appealing to the eye. However, we have several reasons for leaving:

6. There is no trash service here so we have to haul our garbage over to the dumpster. Guess we got spoiled by other parks so this irks us more than some people. I will give them credit that they recycle most everything. It will be pleasant to put our trash out each morning and have it disappear!

5. When we went over there a couple of weeks ago and were driving around, a guy staying there was outside and talked to us for a LONG time. Preston was really open and friendly (bald, too). We stopped another day and visited with his wife, Mo, who was also friendly. We sort of feel we already have friends there. (The people around us at Raintree were nice but there were about 5 couples from the same hometown in Indiana. Even though they were friendly, they were a closed circle who did everything together.)

4. The place is about 3 miles south of Raintree, still on US 41, which puts us that much closer to Wal-Mart and Ed's doctor. It's directly across the road from The Shell Factory, where we had that good fish on Tuesday when George and Kay were here.

3. We don't have to turn north and make a hazardess U-turn to go south each time we leave the park. Tamiami RV Park has an opening in the median, probably thanks to The Shell Factory. A nice turn to the right when we leave is so much safer, not to mention, easier on my nerves!

2. The internet is sporatic and when we least expect it, it shuts off. It might take us 10 minutes or more to get back on or we might not get back on for several hours. (It will be a relief to my ears not to hear Ed fussing several times a day!) This internet cut-off is especially annoying when I've worked for an hour or more to put something on our church's website, only to have it quit on me......guess patience is a virtue but I sometimes run out of it.

And the #1 advantage to moving is.....

1. The new place is over $400.00 less per month - we can put up with straight roads for that much money!