Mar 24, 2013 - Another Road Trip

Since this weekend and at least Monday were forecast to be very rainy and windy, we decided to leave the boat in Jacksonville and take another road trip to visit a part of Florida we haven't seen before. Larry admits that he has seen much more of Florida this winter than he ever saw while growing up and living here for 18 years. Funny how that happens to all of us. Anyway, in examining the Florida State map, I found a place on the upper west coast, before the panhandle, that seemed rather remote, had no big cities, but had islands. Called...

Dec 3, 2012 - Cedar Key, FL - Dec 2012

A really nice week revisiting this quiet little village. We stayed a month in Feb 2011 and really enjoyed it. For us, a visit to Florida must include a visit to Cedar Key. We stayed in the Sunset Isle RV Park again. We found it to be the best for the money and location. There are other parks, but we like the fact that we can walk to town everyday and explore without the need for driving. Cedar Key's clam-based aquaculture is a multi-million dollar industry. The village holds two festivals a year, the Spring Sidewalk Art Festival and the...

Nov 16, 2012 - Cedar Key

The weather today ended up being pretty crappy – it was cloudy and cool all day so there wasn’t a lot of motivation to go and see or do a lot. We got our act together pretty slow and didn’t leave the house – other than walking the beast – until almost noon. We headed to “downtown” Cedar Key and parked on Dock Street which is the waterfront tourist area. Dock Street has a handful of restaurants and some gift/souvenir shops and that’s about it. Cedar Key is not a major tourist destination and that’s just fine with most of the locals. Just...

Nov 15, 2012 - Cedar Key

Well, we did it. We finally pulled out of Davenport. We had a good time while we were there and got a chance to visit with some friends, see The Rat and Universal and have a really good dinner at Emeril’s, but it was time to move on. Time for these free-spirits to feel the wind in our faces and the hum of tires on the pavement. There, that’s the extent of my ability to paint a picture with words. Impressive, huh? We pulled out of the gas station onto US 27 at about 10:45 and headed north through Clermont and Minneola and then onto the...

Apr 14, 2012 - Cedar Key RV Resort FL

We had heard good things about Cedar Key, the quaintness of the small town on the Gulf, the Artists and food. What we found was a very laid back small town that had lots of shops selling local artist creations, a hotel dating back to 1859, and very busy restaurants. We ate on the deck overlooking the harbor, Houston was allowed to be with us. The town was nice, not somewhere we would go back to since there really isn't much to do there, we saw the town in half a day. However, with this said, it is well worth a visit.

Apr 1, 2012 - Found some "old" Florida

Sunday, April 01, 2012 Wow can you believe it is April already? Not me, where did the winter go? Oh ya, what winter, I haven’t had pants or shoes on for months. Oh, and did I mention the news about that lottery drawing the other day? Guess who’s holding one of the 3 winning tickets? That’s riiiiiiiiiight! I already bought the CG we are in and kicked everyone else out to give us some privacy, bought each of us a Rolls Royce and am trying to decide what jet to buy. Ha Ha Ha April Fools!!!!! Ok, back to our real boring life. We took a short...

Mar 14, 2012 - Charming Cedar Key

From Silver River State Park in Ocala, FL … Tuesday, March 13, 2012 We finally saw blue skies yesterday for the first time since we arrived in this area last Friday. It warmed up to the low 80s too making it perfect for a day trip. After sleeping in and having a quick breakfast, we left Silver River State Park around 10:30am. The trip to Cedar Key on the gulf coast is only around 70 miles from here. But it’s also a very pretty drive. As we drove across Ocala, our route took us through the beautiful horse country. Around here they call...

Feb 7, 2012 - Birding Boat Trip-Jan 2011

Note: Sorry to be away so long. There is little if no wifi at TOG these days. Thought it was just the end of the month. That's not the problem. Seems the person who historically has abused the wifi system by downloading movies, skyping and watch TV over the internet is back in the campground and is using all the bandwidth....so the internet shuts down or is so slow you can't read emails.....enough of my rant. We have been enjoying unseasonable nice weather with a little rain. Both are busy working, reading and quilting. We have been able...

Jan 21, 2012 - Gems-Jan 2011

Note: Since we are just sitting and mostly doing only normal stuff I decided to blog about some of our other travels. The weather is wet and cool here in the North Georgia Mountain. We are busy....working.....reading....quilting and planning our spring travels. Hope you enjoy our visit to Cedar Key, FL Gems.....we have discovered many gems in our short time of traveling the USA. Some of the gems you discover by reading blogs, visiting web sites, and visitors center. The Cedar Key Historical Museum is one we discovered from information at...

Jan 13, 2012 - Cedar Key FL-Jan 2011

Note: Since we are just sitting and doing boring every day stuff like cleaning, cooking, laundry and reading.....and for me finally some quilting, I thought I would blog about some of the places we have been and things we have done. While this has been a mild winter, we are having a few days that remind us that yes it is still January.....snow flurries this morning and a low tonight of 18...YUCK! We left Savannah and headed south and west seeking 70 degrees.....and we found it shortly after crossing the Florida stateline. Can't believe it...

Jan 13, 2012 - Exploring Cedar Key-Jan 2011

After getting setup at Low Key Hideaway we headed to "downtown" Cedar Key seeking a late lunch. At one time Cedar Key was a fishing community until the state of Florida outlawed net fishing. What was this fishing community to do? They started a clam farming industry. The clam farmers have 2 acre tracks in the gulf waters where they raise the clams from babies to market......and they is where Tony's comes into play. Most of the time when we think of Clam Chowder we think of the New England coast....but would you believe the World's Best...

Jun 7, 2011 - Cedar Key FL

No real plan for today: I foresee a wander around town, read a little, walk the dog a lot and take it easy kind of day. And I was close to right. We ate some breakfast and then went “downtown” to wander around a couple shops and the fishing pier then had some lunch at Tony’s Restaurant. It is famous for its New England clam chowder - it has won the world clam chowder championship in Newport RI for the last 3 years so we had to have it. It is good, but my grouper sammich was nothing special though Michele said her salad was good. We came...