YellowGMCMotorhome: Turkey Time 23

We are still feeling out the holidays, this being the second year with no parents. Last Thanksgiving my sister and her family went up to NC to see their youngest daughter and my son was able to join them. As you may recall, the girls and I headed just up the road to Jonathan Dickenson at the last minute when we scored a cancellation.

My sis sold her South FL home and has moved full time to the Melborune area about 120 miles north of us. She mentioned her oldest would be in town from Dallas. In early October I went online to check out Long Point Park which is about 20 miles from her place. Low and behold, someone had cancelled and we got THE LAST SPOT available for 4 days over the holiday. I couldn't hit reserve fast enough. Bonus was that the site was waterfront, so we could launch the kayaks right off the site! My son said he would be able to come, however, at the last minute his job called and he had to work the day after Thanksgiving as he didn't have enough time off accrued....we missed him tremendously.

Well the next month and half flew by and we have been busy with our non-camping life....We were leaving Wed (wanted to be on the road by noon), Aside from moving the coarch to get a new door installed, I hadn't driven it since April when we went to the rally. So last Saturday, I pulled her out, checked her over, and took for about a 10 mile spin and topped off the gas tanks.

I used a previous check list from an earlier trip and while we brought everything on the list, boy we forgot a ton of stuff! Naya's BFF was coming with and we needed a car to get to my sister's (no motorhomes allowed at the condo!) She left about 2 hours after we did. This was good as we called her and got things we didn't pack, but we still missed things.

The drive up was uneventful and the FHP was out in force writing tickets (I got one years before on Turkey week). We arrived and got set up pretty quickly. You can see us crossing the Sebastian Inlet Bridge above. (a mile away from the campground).

Initial set-up complete, we arrived around 4:30 PM so not much light left, just the essentials for tonight..

This was around dusk and the cocktail lamp is lit! You can see the 10' kayak strapped to the ladder to keep it out of the way.

I had some firewood onboard, but the lion's share went into the trunk of the Mercury. 5 pallets worth cut up. Pic doesn't do it justice (brought about 40% home which will be plenty for the next trip in 2 weeks)