Wednesday February 1st 2017

The day started with fog and ended in the mid 70s with bright sunshine. According to the TV weather people the fog was related to the prescribed burns being conducted on some of the forest land in the area. I didn’t detect the odor of smoke, but it certainly was possible. I saw one of the areas of the burn on my way up here Monday.

I spent too much time today worrying about where I was going to stay tomorrow night. My original plan was to stop here long enough to get the things I needed to complete in Florida finished before heading west. In a perfect world I could have completed the tasks before moving on tomorrow, but this isn’t a perfect world. I thought I’d be able to move over to the St. Augustine area to finish up my tasks, but there aren’t any vacancies at any of the campgrounds in the area. The weekend is fully booked here and in the St. Augustine area.

The Little Blue Heron is still resident in the Campground’s drainage pond.

I worked the internet and the phone checking campgrounds in an ever increasing circle. I finally found a place to stay for the weekend just over the line in Georgia. It’s a nice campground that I’ve been to before, but I’ll have to move back to the St. Augustine area on Sunday.

There is a strange thing about the campgrounds in Florida during the winter. The owners fill the parks to a high percentage with long term residents. They keep a few sites that they can fill at a higher nightly rate by travelers. Those are the sites I need as I travel. On weekends, I’m not only competing with travelers but also Florida residents out for the weekend.

I am still having difficulty with the need to reserve sites ahead of time. Making reservations online is one thing, but having to place multiple phone calls is a royal pain. The flip side is that when I don’t have a reservation my anxiety level with respect to finding a place to stay goes up.

The day wasn’t a total bust. I did travel around the area and get a few errands accomplished.