Sunday February 5th 2017

It was almost 20 degrees warmer today. The sun was shining brightly and all thoughts of yesterdays winter were gone.

Today was moving day. I needed to travel from the Florida Georgia line to the outskirts of St. Augustine. It’s only about 60 miles but you need to navigate through or around Florida’s largest city of Jacksonville. For years I’ve taken the western beltway around the city on I295, but sometime over the last 10 years the eastern beltway has been completed. This time, I took Interstate 295 on the east side. It is shorter and seems to have less major intersections. Since it was mid day on a Sunday, I could have gone through the center of the city on Interstate 95, but the last time I was on that road it was very rough.

To avoid arriving too early at my new campsite, I stopped at the Florida Welcome Center. In addition to all kinds of brochures on all things Florida, they give out samples of Orange or Grapefruit juice. I’ve commented before on how small the samples were. This time they were giving out slightly bigger samples. That’s surprising since the cost of OJ in the grocery stores has gone up. I won’t complain, it was good.

Site 7 at Stagecoach RV Park in St. Augustine

I have a back in site at the Stagecoach RV Park. I’ve been here two other times since August. Both of my previous times were in the pull thru sites. This back in site is harder to get parked, but is a nicer site overall. I back up to a fence around an open field, so I have no rear neighbors.

I started this blog entry when the Super Bowl game wasn’t going the way I wanted. With the Patriots not playing well, the commercials and the half time show were not very interesting. Now as I finish this blog entry, the Patriots have completed the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history. I’m glad I kept the game on even though I wasn’t paying attention until it was within two miracle scores. Congratulations to the New England Patriots.