March 10, 2006

March 10, 2006

Bushnell to Bradenton / Lake Manatee State Park, Florida

YEAR 2 DAY 266

 

Today was another sunny, very warm day.

This morning we prepared for departure, and left Sumter Oaks RV Park. We drove south on Interstate 75. We stopped for lunch at a road side rest area.

At Bradenton we turned east for a few miles on Hwy. 64 to Lake Manatee State Park. When we arrived the gate attendant said the campground was full for the weekend. Too bad. We wanted to visit our Missouri WorkCamping friend, Julie. "Oh ... you're Julie's friends. In that case we have a site for you." Julie had arranged to reserve the last available site in the campground for us. Nice work, Julie ... thank you very much. We got settled and set up in our site, then walked over to see Julie at her campsite.

We visited with Julie, her mother, who is visiting with her for awhile, and her dog Tansy, for the rest of the day. We sat around their campsite, chatting, catching up on the last 15 months or so, since we worked with Julie at YMCA Of The Ozarks. When Julie had to leave for a few minutes to solve a problem, as campground host, we took Bo for an obedience training session. Late in the afternoon, Julie and her mother expressed a desire to go out for supper, so we loaded into Julie's Class B Plus mini-motorhome, and drove into Bradenton, just a few miles away. We had not yet unhitched Dee-Dee from Harvey, which is why we didn't take our truck. Julie and her mother wanted to try a Mexican restaurant called Acapulco. We had a very pleasant dinner at Acapulco, serenaded by the Mariachi Band strolling the restaurant. It was a nice enough Mexican restaurant ... for Florida. We're a bit spoiled now, after eating a number of times at Mexican restaurants in Mexico, and along the Mexican border in Arizona and Texas.

Driving back to Lake Manatee State Park, we made some tentative plans for tomorrow. Back at the trailer, I did today's accounting, and journal entry.

DSK