Saturday February 11th 2017

This time of year Florida seems to experience a temperature roller coaster. Yesterday it was only in the 60s and today it broke 80 degrees. I’m not complaining. New England just got over one snow storm and another one hits tomorrow.

Today was moving day. I need to keep moving around to find places with vacancies. I’m back at the KOA just north of the state line in Georgia. This place has plenty of open sites since it caters to travelers that only stay a night or two. Unfortunately, it is too far north of the area I need to be in. I will move back south of Jacksonville on Monday. I just need to figure out where.

Site E-8 in the tall pines. I couldn’t get a Satellite signal here either.

Travel days include about 2 hours of leisurely packing up and 2 hours of setting up. I can get it down to half an hour in full on travel mode when I only stop overnight. There is usually one or two things that require a little extra effort. This time it was getting the cable TV wire disconnected. I had to dig out two pairs of pliers to unscrew a simple connector.

Today I only traveled for a little over an hour but hung out at a rest area for over an hour to delay long enough to show up after check in time. I can read, watch TV, surf the Internet, eat and just generally live in the rest area parking lot. So it’s not a hardship dragging my feet in this way. It’s relaxing.

One of the things I did after getting set up is the laundry. This included a new complication. The water pressure is so low that it takes extra time to complete the wash cycle. They have posted the wash time as 30 minutes, but my load took closer to 50 minutes. When I returned to the laundry room at 30 minutes the rinse cycle was just starting. It took 10 minutes just to fill the tub with water for the rinse cycle. Learning and experiencing all the variations in laundry facilities is one of the more interesting things about the campgrounds I stay at. It’s a little thing, but it is more of fun challenge than some of the bigger hurtles of this lifestyle.