January 2, 2022
Today was the day we were supposed to get on the Carnival Mardi Gras for our 6 day cruise. Since we had to cancel due to illness I thought I would feel sad but we have been having so much fun on this RV trip and have so much more planned I really don’t feel that way.
We thought about going to Cape Canaveral and seeing the ship but decided against it. We headed out of our campgrounds about 10 am for our next adventure.
We stopped in Fort Pierce with plans to go to the Manatee Observation and Education Center. The directions Waze gave had us turning on a 2 lane road with a 8 foot 6 inch railroad bridge. Our RV is 12 foot 6 inches so that didn’t work. We have been talking about buying a Garmin RV GPS and after struggling to turn around on that narrow street that is a must add to the RV.
We saw on the map there was a Navy Seal Museum just a little further down the road so we changed our plans and decided to go there instead. We pulled into the parking lot and once again had to make our own parking spot which meant we took up 3 1/2 parking places by pulling across them horizontal. This parking lot was also right next to public access to the beach and had over 200+ parking places with close to 50 empty and people coming and going all the time so spots where filling and opening constantly.
We decided to eat lunch first before heading out to see the ocean and the Navy Seal Museum. After lunch I headed out of the RV first and Frank had a couple things to do before coming out. While I was standing in front of the RV and older gentleman pulled up in his sports car, rolled down his window and went off on me. He yelled that we were rude to take up 3 1/2 spots and we could move so we were only taking up 3 spots. I started to explain that if we did that someone would pull in to tight and we wouldn’t be able to get out. He didn’t care he yelled that buses were not allowed to park there and he was calling the police on us. We did not see any signs saying we could not park but I told him we were just going to walk down to the ocean for 10 minutes and would come back and leave. He then parked his car in one of the many open parking places and followed us to the beach with his phone pressed against his ear. We spent a brief time checking out the ocean and then headed out. Since this is the only negative situation, we have faced so far on the trip we decided to put it behind us and go on and enjoy the rest of the trip.
We got to our campground about 3 pm at Davie, Florida. We have now completed the whole East side of Florida and are ready to head across to the West side. It is so warm and since we had not got our walking in today we went down to the campground pool and swam laps before dinner. We came back to the RV and had Grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner. We had planned to have soup with them but with the temperature being in the 80’s soup didn’t sound appealing.
Sunday is our day to talk to our kids in Virginia, Utah and Austin, Texas so we made our regular phone calls and had to add two more for our girls in Potter, Texas. It was fun visiting with them all and sharing what we have done on our trip so far.
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