{"id":604,"date":"2016-01-30T06:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T10:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2016-01-31T06:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T10:37:57","slug":"january-2016-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"January 2016: At last…"},"content":{"rendered":"

At times it seemed like it would never happen. And we kept encountering delays and complications. And a watched pot never boils. And a rolling stone is worth two in the bush. Whatever. It’s finally here. In a couple hours we leave for Florida for a one-month-plus meandering trip, the first chapter in our retirement ambition to tour around and see as much as we can of this beautiful country.<\/p>\n

\"Florida2016\"<\/a>The itinerary is: Cedar Key<\/a> (4 days), Sarasota<\/a> (3 days), Naples<\/a> (for a week), Everglades<\/a> (3 days in the park itself at Flamingo<\/a>), then 5 days over on the Miami side<\/a>, Chokoloskee Island<\/a> (for a week), Okeechobee<\/a> (for a couple days), and then a quick stop<\/a> north of Orlando to see friends at The Villages<\/a>. The trip is WAY heavy on way-too-expensive “resort” style RV parks, but such appears to be the nature of snowbirding in Florida during the peak of the season.<\/p>\n

On our honeymoon, back in 1972, as we traveled around the country staying in campgrounds<\/a> (and sleeping in our little rubber-coated canvas tent that we bought with S&H Green Stamps), we resolved that, someday, somehow, “we’ll do this again …” Nearly 44 years later, “someday” is finally here.<\/p>\n

Time to go pack up! Further posts will follow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At times it seemed like it would never happen. And we kept encountering delays and complications. And a watched pot never boils. And a rolling stone is worth two in the bush. Whatever. It’s finally here. In a couple hours we leave for Florida for a one-month-plus meandering trip, the first chapter in our retirement … Continue reading “January 2016: At last…”<\/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-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p68mhx-9K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}