Monday January 15th 2024

Mother Nature didn’t know weather it should rain or not today. The day started with drizzle then cleared up before transitioning to light rain and back to drizzle. More significant rain is in the forecast for the overnight hours with tomorrow being rather similar to today before ending with heavy rain associated with another approaching cold front. This winter in Florida is an unusually wet one. On the good side the temperature was in the low seventies today.

I got my bicycle unloaded from my car this morning and the vehicle was ready to go with errands and area touring. My first trip was down the road Walmart for groceries. Why did I think that a holiday Monday morning wouldn’t be busy? It was busy mess from the parking lot to the checkouts. In the parking lot people’s cars were blocking the aisles waiting for the elusive spot near the front of the lot. If only they would show that level of patience inside the building. Inside all the aisles were busy with people of all ages from toddlers to senior senior citizens. Those two groups move at much different paces resulting in a lot of near misses. At the checkouts, not all of which were open, there were long lines. I thought I got lucky when a cashier at a closed register waved me over. Except she was walking away by the time I got there. A different cashier that was trying to close took pity on me and checked me out. An so ended my grocery shopping adventure for another week.

The end of the holiday weekend resulted in some turnover in this campground, but not as much as at a state park. The state park campgrounds have a lot more locals enjoying the long weekend. This KOA has a lot more people that have traveled from the north. My neighbors have license plates from Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin among others. Clearly they are travelers or snowbirds here for a few days or weeks. All of Orlando’s attractions are a big draw for this campground. There is also a long term section of the park that has monthly residents where the long term snowbirds stay.