Friday, November 16, 2012

Today is a travel day...SC south towards FL.  We could tell we were still in SC...little carts/stands of boiled Peanuts for sale along the road.

Then, it was into Georgia - I could tell because "Peches" were advertised at a roadside stand.  I was too slow to catch a photo of the huge bright green 10' bicycle carried on a trailer behind a pickup with the title on it....you guessed it "Regions."  (Assume you all have seen their TV ads with several green bikes.)  Well, this was a huge one...would love to know where it was headed! 

Georgia started out somewhat like SC in terrain, but the farther south we got, the flatter the landscape became...

Stopped at a truck stop about 5 PM...too tired to continue.  Quick supper and crashed.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

The rest of our travel day.  Florida!  Arrived about 10:30 am.  Stopped at Visitor Center so Jerry could get a Florida map.  Could tell we were in Florida, as there was a SUV towing a boat and on top of the SUV was a surf board!  However, no palm trees yet...but lots of spanish moss and mistletoe killing the trees.  What a shame.

Stopped at the restored train depot (circa 1800s) outside the park to get some information.  Very nicely redone.  Arrived at our destination around noon...Ocean Pond campground in Osceola National Forest near Olustee, FL.  Very nicely laid out with electric sites, primitive sites and those with water only.  We had no choice as the primitive area was too small for us to fit, the electric sites were full (we didn't want that anyway) but we had our choice of spots along Ocean Pond.  Sites are large and all are separated from each other with vegetation.  They have gravel parking pad, nice firepit on a cement base, large picnic table and stand with hook for lantern.  We paid $6 (1/2 price with our America the Beautiful Senior pass.)  

Got set up and took the BMW out for a ride to look around.  The temp said 66 degrees but felt chillier than that.  I was glad to have a sweatshirt on.  Lots of roads in the national forest...many paved and some not.

Saw this home on one road - huge southern style with some kind of party area out back!
 

Paved road through the forest - huge fir trees and the forest floor was carpeted with palmettos.

Turned down this road - looks ok for us to travel on. 

Oh oh - road is deteriorating - think we should turn around...ok - soon as we find someplace to do that.

Oops - road quickly turned to white sand and down went.

What does Jerry do immediately?  What all guys do in time of crisis!  LOL

  Don't think we're hurt...really. Jerry got a little cut on one hand and my back hurt a bit, but we got up, managed to get the bike up and returned to base. Ibuprofen for me and neosporin and a bandade for Jerry.

Had a couple of adult beverages, leftovers for supper - glad I didn't have to cook.  Then I went outside to get my blog notes out of the truck and found this awesome sunset over the pond from the edge of our campsite! 

We are blessed!