Left Oct 31 to head south for the winter; left about a week too late! It’s been cold in Maine and was worse as we made our first couple of stops. Cabelas in Hudson MA had 6″ of snow, Oneonta NY gave us 25 degree morning! YIKES!

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We had picked our stops to along Rts 15, 81 and 75- hoping for less traffic than Rt 95. And to be close to the highway (we now know that less than 1 mile is too close!) and we tried longer days- 300 miles or so (which we also now know is too long for all three of us).

We did discover that highway noise travels farther at night than during the day- no, really? Yup, we experienced it in two campgrounds- sat outside during the day and could not hear the highway traffic, but about 9pm it sounded like it was right beside us! Why, you ask? Apparently, during a warm day the airflow takes the sound up and away, but during the cooler evening the airflow stays along the ground…hot air rises, remember? We will surely remember!

We drove a day and rested a day- which was great, because we found something interesting to do in each place along the way:

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Indian Pass, Florida- The Forgotten Coast, near Port St. Joe. As we were headed here, we got a call from the owner of the campground- TS Eta was headed this way. We had been diligently watching the crazy track of Eta and knew we had to have a back up plan. However, within 24 hours the storm track moved from 400 miles to our west, to 200 miles to our south east- dodged that bullet, I guess.

Hot and humid here; we are trying not to complain…much:-)

Update- we’ve decided to stay here for the winter, different RV park but still in Port St. Joe rather than go to Port Aransas, Texas. Having talked to locals and done some research, we are cautiously hopeful that there will be more sunny days here and less wind, although probably a bit cooler. And there are three places to play Pickleball here, too 🙂

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