Spring Has Sprung!

It’s time to come out of hibernation!  The last I wrote we were in the depths of winter, and we had

hunkered down in Umatilla, Florida at the Olde Mill Stream RV Resort till the weather up north improved.  We have spent most of the past few months living a quiet life with a few fun adventures thrown in to spice things up. 

Before celebrating a quiet holiday season, we jetted off to Turks and Caicos for a pickelball camp with Pickelball in Paradise at a Beaches all-inclusive resort.  The pickleball was outstanding with 4 awesome coaches, the resort was beautiful, the warm water was inviting, though we could have done without the Norovirus we caught near the end of the week! 

Upon returning to the states, we settled in for a long winters nap.  We really haven’t done a lot these past few months, a few trips to Disney World, a few volunteer stints at the Barberville Pioneer Settlement, and played a lot of pickleball here at the resort.

New baby goats Loki & Thor at the Barberville Pioneer Settlement

I did continue performing with the Storytellers of Central Florida, helped out and performed multiple times at the Florida Storytelling Festival in January, where I even won second place in the Liars Contest, as well as performing at a local English Pub, the Magical Meat, in February.

With the Storytellers of Central Florida

Florida Storytelling Festival

At English Pub

Other than that, we have spent our time working on creating a story database for all my stories, cleaning up computer files, puttering around the coach, lots and lots of reading, fixing things that break, …. ya know, basic everyday boring life details!

We are now gearing up to finish up our time in Florida before we hit the road again.  We will be leaving

here at the end of April to head north but before we leave the state, we are taking a quick car trip down to the Keys again.  When we were there last April, we were unable to get a reservation on the only ferry that went out to the Dry Tortugas National Park, so we want to see that before we leave again.  We will also stop again in Ft Lauderdale to see Jon’s sister, Chris, and her partner, Inez. 

,After our week down south, we will return to the coach and pack up.  Then we are stopping in Tallahassee for a mini family reunion with my family then, by the 4^th of May, we will be heading to Red Bay, AL for our annual month at the Mother Ship, Tiffin Service Center.  We do not have a lot on the list to get done, but enough to make the stop worthwhile. 

We will then make a quick trip up to upstate NY for our daughter-in-law’s graduation from grad school before turning west again.  We plan on a fairly quick trip across the country hoping to arrive on the West Coast at the end of June.  After having spent two years on the East Coast, we plan to spend the next couple of years near our daughter in the Seattle area.

Now that spring is here, we feel that draw to get out and shake off the winter blues and hit the road. 

Till next time,