{"id":2541,"date":"2018-04-29T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","slug":"florida-spring-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=2541","title":{"rendered":"Florida Spring 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture gallery can be seen here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0This link should<\/span>\u00a0bring you to a \u201clightbox\u201d view of all the photos in a gallery.\u00a0Clicking on any thumbnail gets you get a larger single view. \u00a0You can arrow\u00a0left and right, or use the on-screen arrows to go left and right.<\/p>\n

Hit <esc> to go back to the lightbox view. \u00a0Close the tab when you’re done viewing, and you’re back here.<\/p>\n

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A typical spring run to Florida.\u00a0 Pack the camper, hightail it to a Walmart somewhere south of Nashville (Franklin TN, in this case) so as to avoid horrible traffic on day two.\u00a0 Drive down I-65 through Birmingham and Montgomery, attempting to avoid rush hours.\u00a0 “Camp out” overnight in some Walmart close to Tampa.\u00a0 On day 3, arrive bright and early at the first camp ground, Oscar Scherer State Campground this time.<\/p>\n

We stayed in Oscar Scherer for 3 nights.\u00a0 Hiked, kayaked, pedaled the Legacy Trail loop that includes Casey Key. Then drove up to Ft DeSoto for a full 2 week stay.\u00a0 The Dosches were there for three days or so before we showed up. They headed home after another four days.<\/p>\n

Spent more time in the kayaks, paddling to Shell Key, and less time on the bikes this year.\u00a0 And way less time playing tennis.\u00a0 Only made it to the clay courts once.<\/p>\n

The bugs were worse than usual.\u00a0 Noseeums.\u00a0 We were bit and scratching. They were worse in the evening, no so bad in the morning.<\/p>\n

At the end of two weeks, we drove to TH Stone State Campground on Cape San Blas, up in the panhandle.\u00a0 Florida is a big state!\u00a0 It took us about 8 hours to get up there, between being slow in general, and having to stop constantly to gas up.<\/p>\n

Noseeums were worse here.\u00a0 Camped next to Randy and Anna from McFarland.\u00a0 There were at least 3-4 other Cheeseheads in our campground. We rode bikes twice (30 mile RT to the Raw Bar), never got the boats out, strolled the beach.\u00a0 Drove to Apalachicola one day, strolled downtown, took in an old car\/boat show, drank beer at a local brewpub.<\/p>\n

Headed home after four nights.\u00a0 Rained all day the first day, really hard.\u00a0 Lost 1.5 hours sitting in traffic towards Birmingham due to a massive RV fire in the right lane.\u00a0 There was almost nothing left of this bus. Saw a lot of accidents in general, due no doubt to the weather.\u00a0 Made it to a Walmart north of Nashville.\u00a0 Uneventful drive on day 2, one minor delay from a horrible crash involving two large semitrucks, one smashing into the other and wrecking it before flipping on it’s top in the weeds. About 8 firemen were trying to pry open the cab on that one when we drove by.<\/p>\n

For the hell of it, I shot pictures of housing and real estate on Cape San Blas from our moving truck as we were driving out of there at 40mph, so take it for what it’s worth.\u00a0 Lots of rich folks’ homes, facing the gulf . Most are on stilts. That gallery is here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It’s clear, you get that feeling, that these homes are\u00a0exposed!<\/span> A major storm could so easily roll over Cape San Blas and wipe it out.\u00a0 Be rich and have good insurance to own a home out there.<\/p>\n

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Picture gallery can be seen here.\u00a0\u00a0This link should\u00a0bring you to a \u201clightbox\u201d view of all the photos in a gallery.\u00a0Clicking on any thumbnail gets you get a larger single view. \u00a0You can arrow\u00a0left and right, or use the on-screen arrows to go left and right. Hit <esc> to go back to the lightbox view. \u00a0Close … Continue reading “Florida Spring 2018”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-photo","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}