Monday July 1st 2024

It is hard to believe that the year 2024 is half over. I spent the first three months traveling around Florida and the second three mostly in one place here in central Florida. The remainder of the year will probably be a mixture of both sitting in one place and traveling on short hops. I really haven’t been making many hard travel plans, just a few nights here and there. This is the lowest level of travel preparedness I’ve had since before the pandemic.

Today was a very nice day. The humidity and chance of rain was much lower than any day in the last two weeks. The sky was blue without many clouds all day and the temperature only climbed slightly north of ninety degrees. There is the possibility of some rain overnight.

Walking around the RV resort today I saw several (4 I think) RVs from California. They are all new arrivals in the last week. Each of them are families with kids judging by the bicycles and other outdoor recreation paraphernalia. One is most likely a family relocating to the area based on the UHaul box trailer in their front yard. I started wondering about how long they have been on the road. It is about 2400 miles from here to Los Angles. At a steady fast, but not rushed, pace of three to four hundred miles a day that would take six to eight days. Most likely, you’d stop often and spend multiple nights in some places. That would stretch things out to close to a month. My quickest and longest relocation was from Florida to Phoenix Arizona in six days. That was a task for a solo driver that I haven’t repeated on other east west or west east trips. The next east west trip from Florida to Albuquerque New Mexico had eight stops over thirteen nights. Slower is always better.

On my second walk of the day, the friendly rabbit and the frighten statue of a rabbit were out and about. The friendly one lets me get within about ten feet before it gets ready to run and stares me down. If I stand still, it will eventually go back to its business of eating. The one I call a statue freezes before I even see it. From about thirty or forty feet away I watch it not moving a muscle. If I look the other way for a couple of seconds, it takes the opportunity to travel like lightening into the brush. They are still fun to watch.