{"id":293,"date":"2015-01-26T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2015-02-01T06:51:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T10:51:13","slug":"february-2015-circumnavigating-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"February 2015: Circumnavigating Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Winter is upon us, so after properly preparing for our first long trip<\/a>, it’s time to head to warmer climes. It’s a 10-leg trip, so here are the individual segments (with updates to follow as they occur):<\/p>\n

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  1. LaGrange to Coastal RV Resort, Brunswick, GA<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Brunswick to Anastasia State Park, St. Augustine, FL<\/li>\n
  3. St. Augustine to Walt Disney World, Fort Wilderness, FL<\/li>\n
  4. Walt Disney World to Cape Canaveral, Jetty Park, FL<\/li>\n
  5. Cape Canaveral to C.B. Smith County Park, Miami (Pembroke Pines), FL<\/li>\n
  6. Miami to Key West (Summerland Key), FL<\/li>\n
  7. Key West to Flamingo Campground, Everglades National Park, FL<\/li>\n
  8. Everglades to Naples RV Resort, Naples, FL<\/li>\n
  9. Naples to Cedar Key RV Resort, FL<\/li>\n
  10. Cedar Key to Carrabelle Beach Outdoor Destinations, FL<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And finally, after three weeks on the road, back to LaGrange.<\/p>\n

    <\/a>Prelude: Gearing Up<\/strong><\/p>\n

    It seems we spend a fair amount of time planning out various big trips we hope to make someday: a 2016 Grand Tour of the U.S. (80 days, 9700 miles, 19 National Parks and Monuments); an out-and-back trip to visit Robert at Joint Base Lewis McChord near Tacoma (6600 miles, taking 125 days, mainly because I’ve included a month in Washington, a week at the Rose Parade, and two months in Tucson); and of course our maybe-someday trip through Canada to Alaska <\/a>and back.<\/p>\n

    But, truth be told, we’ve never really taken a trip longer than a week. Well, one: the trip we made to the White Mountains in New Hampshire back in the 1980s with the pop-up was two weeks. But basically all of our trips have been in the 3- to 5-day range. Until now.<\/p>\n

    We’ve mapped out and will soon start a 10-stop, 22-day, 2100-mile circumnavigation of Florida: down to Walt Disney World to meet up with the Little Darlings for 5 days, then down the east coast of Florida, out to the Keys, then the Everglades, then back up the West Coast.<\/p>\n

    \"2015<\/a><\/p>\n

    There is much that makes this trip exciting besides the fact that it’s our first L-O-N-G trip, mainly that we’re learning how to make a series of overnight-stops; what it’s like to have to toad along with us at each of those; how to deal with the dogs and various onerous pet policies; how to handle restocking, maintenance, and chores; what a real budget should be for such trips; and how much sightseeing and touristy things we can really manage. We plan on coming back much smarter than we are now. But mainly we plan on being warm for a few weeks and having a great time.<\/p>\n

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    Winter is upon us, so after properly preparing for our first long trip, it’s time to head to warmer climes. It’s a 10-leg trip, so here are the individual segments (with updates to follow as they occur): LaGrange to Coastal RV Resort, Brunswick, GA Brunswick to Anastasia State Park, St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine to … Continue reading “February 2015: Circumnavigating Florida”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p68mhx-4J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}