Tuesday November 22nd 2016

Today was an uneventful day. The weather was sunny in the mid 70s by early afternoon, but it took until after 10 for it get comfortable outside. That’s when I left the camp to run a few errands.

Yesterday on my return from Sanibel Island I passed a citrus store. I went back to the Sun Harvest Citrus Company. It is combination of all things citrus. The huge green metal building is primarily for packaging and shipping citrus, but it has a retail shop that sells fruit and other things citrus. The biggest surprise is it also contains an official US Post Office. A good percentage of the people entering the building were going to the post office.

I bought a five pound bag of Naval Oranges that contained about 7 oranges and a five pound bag of grape fruit that contained 6 grapefruit. It works out to about 85 cents a pound which is much better than the supermarkets in the area. I’ve had one orange and it was very good.

From the citrus store I continued in shopping mode at the Gulf Coast Town Center. This is one of the strangest layouts for a shopping center I’ve encountered. I found it very difficult to find specific stores in the main cluster of shops. The Bass Pro shop on the perimeter of the shopping area was easy to find, but the other shops were in clusters around narrow “town” roads. Major stores like JC Penny and Belks were surrounded by little shops in each cluster. I never did find the Best Buy until I got home and looked at the map on the internet. The best part of this stop were the Christmas decorations in the Bass Pro shop. They had a two floor high Christmas Tree in the lobby that was very well decorated.

Visitor to my camp site while I was cooking on the grill.

Back at the campground most of today’s arrivals are here for the long weekend. They are families that have unpacked enough “stuff” to carry them through. How they manage to truck it all to the campground is beyond me. I suspect most of tomorrow’s turn overs will be filled by more families for the long weekend.