Apr 6, 2013 - Sebring FL

Today was party day. Though it will not go down in the annals of prominent Lake Placid events – which I’m sure is a very long list - a good time was had by all. The whole thing went off without a hitch, except for the illness of one of the guests which prevented her from attending, so we are pretty happy with the results. And most importantly, the guest of honor had a good time. There were friends from his old neighborhood in Baltimore, golfers and bowlers from when he lived in North Miami and family from FL, GA and SC. It wasn’t a surprise...

Apr 5, 2013 - Sebring FL

Greetings. We are on the road again and since you haven’t asked to have your name removed from the update list, you will be subjected to the daily, or at least occasional, drivel from the road unless you tell me otherwise. This trip is gonna be northish - via Tallahassee if you can believe that - toward New England then maybe back west toward the Great Lakes and possibly beyond. As usual, we have no chiseled-in-stone plan, more of a “we’re heading that-a-way” idea of where we will end up, though I suspect a few baseball games will end up on...

Jan 12, 2013 - Sebring, FL

Today, Thursday, Jan 10th has us in RV service, which we had set up with the guys who fixed our back slide. We had a seal problem with another slide and they fixed it today. While there they noticed we were not level in the left rear area of our RV and now we are waiting here for parts to come in tomorrow so that this can be fixed. Camper Corral, the RV service has a few hookups in the back of their land, so we had a place to park at night. Friday, the 11th - Since we have a day to kill, we went to the Highlands Hammock State Park and...

Jan 2, 2013 - Sebring Shopping

Today was another shopping day. After spending several hours shopping online, we went off the Sebring (about an hour away--north and west of Okeechobee). We decided that we should replace the refrigerator in our kitchen. Although it "works" it works too hard, and our first electric bill will probably reflect its inefficiency. We also want to add a flat screen TV to the living room, as the one which came with the house is quite old and too large for the space which houses it. After researching, we decided that Sears offered the best...

Nov 4, 2012 - Another Day Of Fun

After pulling the plants and picking up some trash we all got to say good bye to all our friends and watch them pull out of the campground to go home or to another place. We our going to stay over until Tuesday before we head up to Brunswick , GA for the next place to visit. Time go go for a walk on the trails in the park in the late afternoon, we did not see anybody of the trails, there was a few people still camping. The Civilian Conservation Corps was brought about during the depresson in 1938 until the war. Men who was out of work could...

Nov 3, 2012 - STATE PARK

We still our at Highland Hammock State Park for the event and we even get to eat again after a day of Geocaching in the woods. Pictured are of the cache containers that we found on the trail. On Sunday who ever was still camping and did not leave for home yet and wanted to help out the park, could go to a area that the park wanted us to clean up and to pull plants. When ever we have a even we also help with the trash and pull plants that are over running the normal plants that live in the area. We were pulling potato plants that grown very...

Nov 2, 2012 - Fun Time Outdoors

We our going to stay in this park for the weekend and some before we take off to go to Brunswick , GA for our next campground. This weekend is is fun for us because this weekend they shall have a lot of night caching. You get to go out into the night in the woods all alone with lights on you head to shine on refectors that have been placed on the trees. You can not see the refectors during the day , but they stand out at night, you start the hunt at the trailhead. By following the refectors on the trees and if you dont miss any refectors...

Nov 1, 2012 - Highland Hammock State Park

We drove over to Sebring , Florida which is just a few hours away from Cape Coral, Florida. We got in a few days before the event so we could walk some trails and enjoy this wonderful park.All the cool stuff shall start on Friday with a campfire where we all can tell some stories about Geocaching and of course ghost stories. Maybe some hot dogs and then go out in the dark for some night caching, you just dont know what you might bump into in the dark out in the woods. The best part is to see all these people wityh white lights on their...

Feb 7, 2012 - hangin in the hammock

Monday, February 06, 2012 Wow it’s been hot. I don’t want to make anyone jealous back home cause I know your winter has been warm and nonexistent, but 80’s every day is now my new idea for what winter should be like. Of course it is above normal here. We looked over the town of Sebring. There are several lakes in the area and Sebring is right on one of the larger ones. Mr. Sebring laid out the town in 1912 so they are celebrating their centennial this year. He began with a circular park about 300’ across with the streets going out in...

Feb 1, 2012 - Headin further south

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 The last you heard from the Dilapidated Duo we were sunning in sunny New Smyrna Beach by the seashore. We have finally gotten kicked outa there and moved our butts further toward the equator, like all the way to the center of the state. Where, by the way, it is still sunny and beautiful only slightly moreso. Or do you suppose it is more so, or moresew, or moorsew, or perhaps dintymooreso? Ah whodaheck cares anyway. But I digress. Last week we drove south to Titusville which is the closest town, or should I say...

Jan 23, 2012 - Camping

We left Lithia Springs county park and drove over to Highlands Hammock State Park near Sebring, Florida. We wanted to do some trail walking because we have gotten some trail boots for this ummer when we go to the eastern part of the U.S.A. and up into Canada for the back woods. This was a test walk on the trails so we could break in our trail boots before we go walking for real. The boots felt real nice before and during the trail test. We only walked about a total of 15 miles over the three days on the trails. This one trail was eight...

Nov 28, 2011 - Sebring and Homestead

We left earlier than usual took hwy 4, then hwy 27 south in the middle of the state to Sebring. Buttonwood Bay is a large RV Resort with some organized events. After lunch we walked along the lake and the channel. Drove into Sebring for groceries and some shopping. Elgin went to practice on the tennis courts but it rained, the temperature was 23 C and it cooled off to 19 C. November 29 Sunny and warm again this morning when Elgin got up and went to play tennis. We left by 11 am and were on Hwy 27 going south. Fields of citrus and avocado...