1 RV to Ocala FL (delivered)

... spending the night at Lakeland FL

I thought last night was going to be a rough night. As it got closer to time to shut down, we realized that the heat in our room was either on or off. Changing the temp setting didn't make a difference. But BB shut the heat off in our room and it never got cold enough to wake her up to turn it back on. That was good as I was expecting today to be a lost day if BB hadn't gotten any sleep.

The lamps on her side of the bed didn't work either so she wasn't a real happy camper with this place. But it seems like it is only the hotels who don't have problems that ask how your stay was. This one didn't, and I wasn't sure they would care what I told them. Rare that anyone would want to run the heat this for south.

Breakfast was eggs and ham. No yogurt, I do not need both.

7 AM we pull out of the hotel. We had seen the other RV driver inspecting his RV when we went down for breakfast.

1st stop is an hour later in Jennings at the FL welcome center.

2nd stop is two hours later in Ocala when I dropped BB off at the airport.

My fuel range shows I should have about 40-50 miles excess range when I reached Ocala. Right about 50 miles I loose my range and the gauge starts blinking.

With my range gone, I do think about stopping at the closest fuel station which is the Pilot. But that place is hard to get in and out of.

So I chance it and make it to Race Trac. The first pump I pull up to has the E-85 nozzle bagged off. I try the diesel but it will not start, so I move to a different pump. But when I am done fueling I do not get a receipt so I have to go in.

Still in Ocala, my third stop is the drop. As I am lining myself up, I see BB pulling in behind me. While my RV is still running and I am doing my final paperwork, someone walks up to me and starts inspecting the RV.

By the time I can get all of my stuff out of the RV with BB's help, they walk back to our car and hand me my paperwork. They are done. No damages. From the time I fueled to I had delivered my RV and gotten it signed for was less than 15 minutes. Some places it takes hours, lots of hours.

10 miles back north and we are at Murphy's Oyster Bar. It is 70 degrees outside so we sit outside, there is one other couple sitting outside. A little winding but nice, once we got our light jackets.

We had eaten two weeks ago when BB dropped here. Great food. But this time we were not staying at the hotel next door so no place to put the left overs. BB started with eating the non-bread with her fork. I ate the 1st half of my Philly and then only ate the non-bread of the 2nd half. I was stuffed.

While we sat there, I watched a semi get turned around in their driveway. The way he pulled in I never expected him to get turned around without starting over. But he did. And he hadn't turned down a wrong street, he was here to eat.

We've talked about going various places, but decide to go to the Circle B Preserve today when the weather is good here. We have talked about going to the beach tomorrow, we will see.

Today we used our I-Pass for the 1st time in FL where they only used to accept Sunpass. The computer accepted it, now we will see how long it takes to hit our account.

3rd stop is the Preserve. We have taken a couple of different paths, this time we take the 'lake path.' We see lots of birds and a half dozen gator's partially submerged in the lake. None were basking in the sun. We also saw a couple of wild hogs was we were leaving. I think it was about a 2-1/2 mile hike and I took about 50 pictures.

4th and final stop was the Comfort Inn here in Lakeland FL. Once checked in we/I ordered soup online from the Longhorn Steakhouse a few blocks away.

This hotel has heat. But BB can't get the WiFi to work and wants to move. Mine works fine so I'm not sure changing rooms is going to solve her issue. At first she had to be in one place in the room to get WiFi but later it was working anywhere.

Load board

US - 298

IA - 102/98

We didn't grab any of the trips today coming out of FL and now they are all gone. So we will sit for the weekend ... ahhh ... in 70 degree weather (if we go south.) But we will need to be moving my mid week next week to be back by the weekend.

LOG

7:00 - Leave Comfort Inn - Tifton GA

8:15 - Jennings FL - rest area

10:30 - Ocala FL - airport to PU rental car

10:45 - Ocala FL - Race Trac

11:00 - Ocala FL - drop RV

11:15 - Ocala FL - Murphy's Oyster Bar

2:30 - Lakeland FL - Circle B Preserve

5:00 - Lakeland FL - Comfort Inn

6:00 - Lakeland FL - Longhorn Steakhouse - togo