FINALLY got another AVA walk in! I really like this Sebastian area, but one complaint is that there are NO AVA walks around here. The only one within a reasonable distance (like less than 100 miles away!) is the one in Cocoa Beach, so we did that one a few days ago. But since this is one that I did last year, it's slightly less fun for me. I really like the variety of doing different walks, so when we get up by Orlando (which is next week) I'll definitely take advantage of the fact that there are a lot of walks within a close distance. Anyway - the Cocoa Beach walk is still nice - I think something like 1.7 miles of the 6.2 miles is right on the beach, which is always fun. I just take my shoes off and walk in the sand - LOVE IT! The weather was beautiful, and Dave was able to ride his bike while I walked so we both had a great day. Afterwards we got my bike off the rack and we rode over to a really cute "beach bar" and had a cocktail. It was fun just to sit and watch the people at the bar and on the beach. So that was my 8th AVA walk of the trip. Actually, that's a pretty low number but it's just because I was only able to do one during our 5-week stay in this vicinity.
We are only here until Tuesday, and then we move up to Wek
iwa State Park, in Apopka, a few miles north of Orlando. Since we're leaving here I thought I'd post a couple pictures of the park, but it's mostly a campground (although a very nice, big one) so the
re aren't a lot of things to take pictures of. One thing that is nice about Long Point is there's a bridge that goes over a little channel and leads to an island that is part of the park. It's maybe a quarter mile long, but there's nothing on it so it's a great place to let Brandi off her leash (even though we're not supposed to!). Our stay here has been very nice - we've done lots of relaxing things like going to the beach, going on walks, Dave's ridden his bike like a mad person, he's done a lot of (...mostly unsuccessful) fishing, he's put his kayak in a number of times. But after a while just doing that stuff every day, in the same park, and in the same area, begins to get a lit
tle.....dare I say boring? Maybe not boring, exactly, but definitely both of us are looking forward to being at a new place. I guess we're both sort of "restless souls" - we like to keep on the move. And although this area is absolutely gorgeous, we're sort of
in the "been there, done that" mind set, just a little. Plus I'm SO excited because when we get up to the next park, I'll only be there about three days before I jump in the car and drive down to Fort Myers to hook up with Cindi and Glennda for four days. I can't WAIT to see them - it'll be SO much fun! And I'm sure that, after three months of being together every day, Dave is probably feeling okay about a few days on his own!
iwa State Park, in Apopka, a few miles north of Orlando. Since we're leaving here I thought I'd post a couple pictures of the park, but it's mostly a campground (although a very nice, big one) so the
re aren't a lot of things to take pictures of. One thing that is nice about Long Point is there's a bridge that goes over a little channel and leads to an island that is part of the park. It's maybe a quarter mile long, but there's nothing on it so it's a great place to let Brandi off her leash (even though we're not supposed to!). Our stay here has been very nice - we've done lots of relaxing things like going to the beach, going on walks, Dave's ridden his bike like a mad person, he's done a lot of (...mostly unsuccessful) fishing, he's put his kayak in a number of times. But after a while just doing that stuff every day, in the same park, and in the same area, begins to get a lit
tle.....dare I say boring? Maybe not boring, exactly, but definitely both of us are looking forward to being at a new place. I guess we're both sort of "restless souls" - we like to keep on the move. And although this area is absolutely gorgeous, we're sort of
in the "been there, done that" mind set, just a little. Plus I'm SO excited because when we get up to the next park, I'll only be there about three days before I jump in the car and drive down to Fort Myers to hook up with Cindi and Glennda for four days. I can't WAIT to see them - it'll be SO much fun! And I'm sure that, after three months of being together every day, Dave is probably feeling okay about a few days on his own!We did do something fun and out of the ordinary (for us) today - we hooked back up with Barb and Dan (our friend Theresa's mom and her husband). W
e went and visited their place a couple weeks ago, and I wrote about that. So this time they came up here to us and hung out for a couple hours and then we drove into Sebastian and had an absolutely wonderful dinner at this really cool restaurant called Squid Lips. I know - WEIRD name, right? But what a nice place - one of our favorite types of restaurants: an old wooden building, built out on pylons out over the water, with a marina attached to it. Beautiful view across the intracoastal waterway, excellent menu selection (primarily seafood, of course), very good prices. We enjoyed spending time with Barb and Dan again and will certainlty see them this summer after we're all back home in Michigan.
e went and visited their place a couple weeks ago, and I wrote about that. So this time they came up here to us and hung out for a couple hours and then we drove into Sebastian and had an absolutely wonderful dinner at this really cool restaurant called Squid Lips. I know - WEIRD name, right? But what a nice place - one of our favorite types of restaurants: an old wooden building, built out on pylons out over the water, with a marina attached to it. Beautiful view across the intracoastal waterway, excellent menu selection (primarily seafood, of course), very good prices. We enjoyed spending time with Barb and Dan again and will certainlty see them this summer after we're all back home in Michigan.People frequently ask us about one aspect of traveling like we do, i.e. socializing. We really do not socialize very much when we're on our trips. We love it when we can hook up with friends from home, like Barb and Dan. And I can't wait to see my girlfriends next week, and then a couple weeks later Brenda and Arnie will be down in the area for a few days and I'm just DYING to see my daughter! (and Arnie, of course!) But when you're traveling from one campground to another, you are suddenly put in very close proximity to people you don't know at all. Sometimes you meet people and think "gee, if we actually lived by each other, I think I would like to get to know this person better", but other times you find that your "neighbors" wear pretty thin pretty quickly. We have learned that, for US, it's better to kind of keep your distance. Right now, we have neighbors on both sides of us who are from Canada and are down here, literally, in this park, for four months plus. Because we've been here for three weeks now, we've gotten to know them a little better than we usually do and, quite frankly, they're starting to get on our nerves. Nothing major, just little things, but we agreed tonight that we're both glad that we're moving in another four days - it's time! But that's also the beauty of this type of trip - EVERYBODY you meet, whether you like them or not, is just a ship passing in the night. At some point, when we're no longer able to travel freely and easily, we will probably have to make a decision about where we want to live and who our neighbors will be. But for now, it's awfully nice to be able to just keep moving along. And that's another great thing about traveling - you can make your own decisions about how much you want to socialize. There are people who probably leave every park with a list of email addresses and promises to re-connect the following year. But not us. In general, we're pretty happy with our little "family": me, Dave, Brandi and the cats. Thank goodness we all like each other and only SOMETIMES get on each other's nerves!!!! So, by the time I post my next blog update, we'll be on to a new park and new neighbors and new adventures! CAN'T WAIT!
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