We arrived at Jim and Shelley's around 8:30 in the evening. Shelley had prepared a wonderful dinner with Chicken catchatori as the main course. It was real tasty.
The next morning we headed for the Tampa RV Super Show. As we headed dowwn I-4 towards Tampa, we saw the news crews out hyping all the sinkholes (some had closed lanes on I-4) caused by farmers sucking up so much water in such a short period to protect their crops from freezing.
Even though it was a Wednesday, and we (as a people) are in hard economic times, there was a huge crowd at the show. We got into the show at 11:30. It opened at 9. Only a couple of hours later when we worked our way around to the Newmar Motorhomes (very pricey units), two already had sold signs in their windows. I guess not everyone is experiencing hard economic times.
We left Jim and Shelley's Friday morning after a great few days. it was time to hit the road. We still had some unfinished business in Orange Park (home) the needed some long distance attention. As it happens, McDonalds has just recently started offering FREE wireless. So we stopped every couple of hours to check back home and make sure things worked out the way they were supposed to.
We reached our destination, Holiday Campground in Panacea, Fl, at around 6:15pm. The big excitement this evening was watching a big 45 foot Prevost Motorhome trying to get unstuck. It had gotten highcentered, and it's rear wheels couldn't get any traction. A little tow truck was dispatched to handle the situation and it was great fun watching him slide all over the road trying to pull out the Prevost. Think ant trying to pull a brick. Next they sent out an old army surplus deuce and half truck. Well this guy knew what he was doing. He hooked up a tow line that had a lot of stretch to it. He got a running start and stretched that rubber band to the point where we thought it would surely pop. All of a sudden, that Prevost shot forward like a rocket. We thought it was going to hit the deuce and half it was going so fast. But it didn't. The entertainment was over.
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