March 28, 2014

Little Manatee River State Park

Wimauma, FL

Moving Day. 

After four months staying at the same park we are definitely ready to move on. 

While I got the inside ready, Monte took care of all the outside chores including bringing the slides in and out a few times to get all the water off the slide toppers.  

He also had to rearrange things in the bed of the truck before he could hitch up.

Dumping.

My parents stopped by for a final visit and to see how we prep for departure.

Last month we had new landing gear installed.  When Monte saw how flimsy the pins were that came with the landing gear he purchased heavy duty pins.  

Once we were hitched up Monte installed the new pins.

One last pit stop before leaving.

One last hug.

After the short one hour drive we arrived at Little Manatee River State Park, our new home for the next two months. 

Beginning on April 1, we will be working and staying at the maintenance area. The current maintenance volunteers are not leaving until Sunday so we given a site in the camp ground for the weekend. 

Monte had a little difficulty getting into the site because of the soft sand. 

When we were finally situated to his satisfaction, it didn’t take long to do a partial set up. 

I crossed my fingers as we turned on our roof mounted satellite dish hoping to get a signal so we didn’t have to set up the tripod mounted satellite.  To my relief we were able to get a strong signal. 

(We had originally planned on traveling east this spring, summer and fall all the way to Maine, BUT something, that I can't reveal at this time, occurred that caused us to change our plans.  So for the time being we will not be venturing too far.)