Pulling out of Bushnell

Well, after an interesting and educational week at Sumpter Oaks " RV Park, we are finally back on the road heading to new adventures.  We had a great week at the park and met many friendly RVers from all over the country who were happy to share their stories and their knowledge with two "newbies".  Even found Rvers willing to share their fruit with us! These baskets were put out every day in front of one of the RV sites. The fruit was picked from their own grapefruit and orange trees.  We had fresh citrus every morning and really enjoyed it.

Only a few left at the end of the day - these baskets were full each morning

The week long stop at the "Escapees" park served many purposes. We wanted to slow down and experience sitting still for a week. We had a long list of van maintenance and van improvement ideas we wanted to explore and implement. We wanted to finally get on our bikes and Andre get back to running every day (I ended up running as well on many days). And we wanted to explore some of the social aspects of being at an RV park with other RVers living full time in their motor homes. Finally we wanted to check out what it was like to stay at one of the "Rainbow" parks owned and run by the Escapees RV Club that we belong to.

We accomplished all of those things and more over the seven days we spent at the park, so this morning we cleaned and swept out the RV, re-assembled the bikes, rug and truck box on the back of the van and were ready to head out by mid-afternoon. Spent part of the afternoon in Inverness, FL at a beautiful little park and took this photo of an awesome tree!



This elevated wooden walkway provided a great view of birds and water life



The Withlacoochie State BikeTrail (which we rode on a few days ago in Floral City) also runs through Inverness

 Tonight we are settled in for then night near and RV repair shop in Brooksville, Florida where we have an appointment tomorrow morning to have the van looked at for a problem with a leak in one of the air springs - not anticipating anything major, but we thought it best to have it looked at before we got too much further into the trip. After that, we will likely try to visit one more Florida State Park with our annual pass before we head to visit Mom in New Port Richie for the weekend.