The Ryan RV Express: 03/04FEB14 - Navarre, FL (via tallahassee, fl)

Thursday, February 6, 2014

03/04FEB14 - Navarre, FL (via tallahassee, fl)

Sunday morning, 02FEB, we departed the FMCA Area Rally early because as we said in our last BLOG, we were dissatisfied with the rally in general. The weather didn't help them; but in our opinion it wasn't well organized, we were surprised at the small number of vendors, & vendors that we wanted to buy things from didn't have the merchandise. So we hit the road to visit friends in Navarre, FL. We decided to split the drive into two days, & the first day was an excellent drive on a "blue highway", US19. We found a nice RV park outside Tallahassee making sure it had cable TV to the watch Super Bowl. During the drive our RV passed 100K miles on the odometer. That means in eight years of ownership we have averaged over 10K miles per year!

Monday afternoon we arrived at Emerald Beach RV Park in Navarre, FL. After setting up camp, we visited with our good friends Chuck & Anneke Guldenschuh. Who we lasted visited in DEC12 (see below BLOG). We all first met when Chuck & Dan were stationed at the Coast Guard Office in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in the late 70s. Our paths crossed during their CG careers, even being back in Rotterdam together in 95/96/97 when the office was reopened. And both couples started fulltime RV'ing about the same time & we would infrequently "camp" together. After several hours of reminiscing Anneke made an excellent spur of the moment dinner, before we headed back to the RV.

Tuesday morning was some small repairs on the RV. Then the Guldenschuh's picked us for scenic drive along Santa Rosa Beach with a nice lunch at Peg Leg Pete's where we have dined before. We then grabbed Gumbo & our Toad to head back to their house for several games of Mexican Train Dominos. As always the first couple of games were spent coming to an agreement on the rules even though they were in writing & we had all played before. As always the time together seemed too short, but one of the many benefits of RV'ing is we will be in their neighborhood sometime in the future!