Tuesday August 1st 2023

It was a very nice Florida summer day. The temperature was right around the seasonal normal in the low nineties. More important for a nice day during the summer is the thunderstorms weren’t wide spread and the few that did develop missed this area. Another line of storms may pass through the area overnight.

This wasn’t a very blog content filled day. I got my walks around the RV park in and took pictures of the geese and lilies, but most of my time was filled with chores and planning. I have about three weeks remaining in my stay here. I need to book some reservations to get me from the end of August to the middle of November. The plan needs to be flexible to allow running away from the path of hurricanes and I’d like to explore some new areas. The complicating factor is that I really should get a few lingering maintenance issues with my RV home worked on this fall. So I need to find both campgrounds and RV repair options.

As I look at various campground options I am again reminded of how much the nightly price has gone up. Prices seem to have gone up again. The first digit in the price seems to be one number higher. So prices that were in the forties are now in the fifties, fifties are in the sixties and so on. Places that I’ve stayed at a few years ago and begrudgingly paid in the forties now have nightly rates in the eighties. The real problem is I don’t need or value many of the amenities included in that rate. I don’t need a sewer connection for a stay under two weeks, although it is nice and I rarely use cable TV connections or any of the recreation facilities. The only upside is that weekly and monthly rates seem to be a little more discounted than they used to be.

My first task is to book the labor day weekend. I have identified a few options with plenty of vacancies, so I have a few days to think it through. The Columbus (or Indigenous Peoples) day weekend is also a concern for October, but I can wait a little longer for that one.