Tuesday July 11th 2023

It was a much drier day today than Monday. The sun was still hiding behind the clouds most of the day, but the rain was limited to a few widely scattered storms. It was a good day for a road trip.

I set out on what turned into a two hundred and fifty mile round trip drive. My destination was Ocala Florida to arrange to get my new car setup to be toad behind my motorhome. The Hitching Post in Ocala is one of two places in Florida that I would consider getting the job done. Many RV dealers will do the job, but they don’t have a lot of experience. The Hitching Post does several a week. At busy times of the year they do two every day of the week except Sunday. I’ve got an appointment for the beginning of August to add the base plate for the tow bar and wire the lights in my new Chevy Equinox.

The shop is a little over one hundred miles away, but I took the long way south. I followed Interstate 95 to Daytona Beach before turning inland on State Route 40. Traffic wasn’t bad and route 40 is a nice drive through the Ocala National Forest. The only problem with this route is crossing through all of Ocala to get where I needed to go. I returned home on the more direct path provided by US 301. Unfortunately, I drove through some rain on this part of my journey.

While I was in Ocala I stopped at the Ocala Wetlands Recharge Park that I last visited in January. There is a lot more ground water in the holding ponds today than there was in January. The ducks, herons and egrets were plentiful. The pictures in this blog entry are all from my walk in the recharge park.