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Having recently retired we are fulfilling our long time dream. We began our camping life with a tent in 1969 adjusting as each of our three sons arrived over the years and gradually progressed to a 32' Class A in 2007. Even after our sons became too busy with their own interests, we continued dreaming over the years. The Louisville, KY 2003 Great North American RV Rally and the book "Movin' On" convinced us that a motorhome after retirement was really for us! In 2007 we sold our home and disposed of most of our belongings and awaited the wife's retirement on February 1, 2008. We were out in our first motorhome ten times in our first summer in 2007, with our grandson joining us eight of those ten times. Since he must stay behind with his mom and dad to continue school, we told him he can join us on vacations (by car or plane) anywhere we are as we travel the US. Imagine the history lessons he could acquire! However, Mom and Dad don't look at it that way, especially the flying. Fortunately we don't miss work one bit!! We just miss the friends there. We have many hobbies to keep us busy when we decide to sit still for a day. Hope to see you on the road.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

BUS TRIP FROM RED OAKS RV PARK


Our first trip from Red Oaks RV Park this season was a three day trip beginning January 15th to Key West. Since we had never been there, we felt a bus trip would be better than going it on our own.  But now that we have been there, we want to go again!!  There is much more to see than we had time for.  We barely skimmed the surface.

The bus picked us up here in the park at 7:30am















Our first side trip on the Jungle Queen was a three hour cruise of the Ft Lauderdale Intra Coastal Waterways.  (Better known as Millionaire Row.)  Our tour guide had much information to share, what house belonged to whom and any other history behind these awesome homes.  Not having a note-pad with me I will just show the pictures for now, with the first of some awesome boats.















Hard to imagine someone having enough money to maintain these, let alone staffing them and traveling with them.  Money to burn?  Can't think of anything else to do with it, or is it competition?
Steven Spielberg's yacht
Gondola
There were several draw bridges that we went "under". 
 

 
Here we are coming to a railroad drawbridge.
 
















Now show of the homes!!  Some of them you can not even tell the actual size because they run longer from front to back than they are across the front.  I just can't imagine what it must take in staff to care for them. 





 
Some of the owners named were a Burt Reynolds, Nick Nolte, Gloria Vanderbilt, car dealer Mike Maroone, CEO of Best Buy, Dave Thomas of Wendy's, original owner of Taco Bell, owner of Oscar Mayer with a hot dog painted on the bottom of the swimming pool,  Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and heir to Kohl's department store fortune, Anheuser-Busch family, a glass walled mansion used as setting for Miami Vice, home where Connie Frances stayed when filming "Where the Boys Are", just to list a few.
 
The cruise boat passed 45 feet over the traffic going through Florida's only tunnel on U.S. 1.
 
Just about the time that our boat turned around, we noticed that there was a campground on the Intra Coastal Waterway.  Hm-m-m, might be a nice place to stay in the motorhome.  We will have to look into it!!

 
Continuing on to Key West after this cruise, we stopped at a small roadside bird and animal sanctuary where we were able to watch a man wrestle the alligator.



We then checked in at our motel at Homestead Florida for the night before going on through the Keys.  Stay with us and we will show you our pictures of Key West and our stop north of Miami on our return trip at Butterfly World.
 
Hope that you are all staying warm.  It is a challenge here as well, but then we don't expect "0" temps.  Spring should break soon??
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