Film and Love Bugs

Our first day out of SNF and it was a good one. The weather was very good. We drove the short distance to Florida Applied Film to get the damaged Diamond Shield removed from the front of our RV. That went very well and the RV looks great. While it was in process, we drove to Lakeland and visited Custom Coach Works where we may get our floor replaced in the fall. They gave us a tour and showed us their work and some of our options. It will take some work to figure out what we want and how it will get done. We had a nice lunch on the patio of a restaurant, Ellyn went to a fabric store, and then we went back and picked up the RV and went to Costco for a few things.

Finally, about 3:00, we got on the road. Immediately we hit a problem...lots of them. Love Bugs they call them. Little black bugs paired up for love, and apparently swarming right in our path. At some points they sounded light rain drops hitting the front of the coach. Eww.

After we stopped for dinner in Citra, FL on US 301, they seemed to let up. Now that we are in Georgia and have them cleaned off, perhaps we have gotten through the worst of it.

The Final Days of Fun in Florida…For Now.

We are now winding down the last few days at Sun’N’Fun before heading North. Our to-do list is getting shorter and we have been shuttling things between the RV and storage so we make sure we have everything on board that we wish to have with us for the next 6 months and leave here the things we will only need when we get back. This past week Ellyn had her last sewing session and Geoff played guitar with one of his friends for the last time this season. The RV’s on Rainbow Rd have dwindled to about the same number that were here when we pulled in last October. On Tuesday, Geoff has a morning Dr. appointment and we are scheduled to drop the RV off at a local shop to get an oil change. Then we will drive just a short distance to Tampa. On Wednesday morning, we will again take the RV to a shop to get the Diamond Shield product removed from the front. It was not apparently applied correctly and has been cracking and peeling for the last couple of years. We will get it removed for now and decide later if we want to have more applied.

From Tampa we have 2 1/2 days to get to Williamsburg, VA. We are also going to spend a few days camping in Delaware to pick up our 47th State. Only Kentucky and West Virginia will be left to fill in on our camping map. Then we can clear it and start all over again. (We count a state as having been visited if we camp within it’s borders at least one day. We have driven through both Delaware and West Virginia, but have never camped there. Some people like to camp in a state more than just one day before counting it on their maps. If we did that, the only state which would fall off our map at this point would be Indiana. All other states we have stayed in 2 days or more.)