April 18th 2017
 We are now at Central Park Rv resort in Haines City. After initially trying to put us in a pretty crappy spot (115#) they changed us to #82 on the LAKE! It is an awesome site, esp since we are using Passport America ($21/night). This is actually a nice rv resort, a lot of park type models. Many for sale. Our parts for the camper have all been approved and we should be able to get repairs completed by april 25th. Now the living room slide is acting up. :(. the motor acts like it has to work really hard when first pulling in. GEEZ!

Central Park Rv Resort #82 $21/nightly

Tampa East C-4, $23/nightly

April 8th
We leave Belle Parc today. Heading to Camping world tomorrow for warrenty repairs. I have quite the list for them to work on. All company has come and gone. Brad and family left yesterday. They had great weather while they were here. Brett and I did a lot of biking around the campground and swimming in the pool. We finally went to the Freezer for shrimp. It was delicious! We also went to the Homosassa Wildlife park and went kayaking on the Weeki Wachee and got lucky enough to see a manatee. We said goodbye to John and Laurie yesterday. It has been a great winter spent with great friends. Word has it that winter still is hanging on tightly in Wi., so we will make the trip slowly back to Chippewa once the camper is finished. Hoping to stop in Nashville for a few days on the way back.

brett made a bird house to hang on their new deck. 

Hot game of Giant Jenga at John and Laurie's

Last campfire in Brooksville. Great winter!

Beth and Todd

Brooksville Camp site #23

April 17 2017
 Well, we should be back in Wi. by now, but when we took our camper into Camping World for 2 days, we were told after they took the slide apart that indeed we would need to now order parts which could take 3 weeks to get. Initially, we were going to go back to Wi. and get it all repaired there, but when we called Northpoint Rv in Chippewa they told us that due to the late spring they were soooo busy that they would not be able to fix the issues until late OCT.!!! We also called Keystone in Goshen Indiana to see if they would repair it on our way back home. We were told no...We initially left Tampa and headed north but when we got to Brooksville we stopped for the night at Hidden Valley campground (a PA campground) ($15)  (bad campground)and discussed the issue further and decided to head back to Tampa and have CW order the parts and just get it done. Whew! A decision made! The weather in Wi. took a nasty turn anyway and they have gotten up to 2 feet of snow over the weekend. Glad to not be driving or camping in that. Kevin said there is no way we could get in the driveway at this point with all the snow they got. We are now at Tampa East campground ($23) (good campground) close to CW but it is also a PA park and can only stay 6 nights. So tomorrow we head to Haines city for 7 nights. Kevin's inlaws Fred and Vera bought a condo there and will be there for a week getting the place cleaned up and set up. We volunteered to help with manual labor. Gives us something to do while we wait around FL. We have met some of the neighbors around us here at Tampa East and as always at campgrounds people are mostly friendly. Pine Harbor in Chippewa has advised us that they will not be opening until May 4th which also contributed to our decision to stay in Fl and wait for repairs.

Tampa East Campground. C4

Better that sitting in Wi. Blizzard there!

Hidden Valley campground Brooksville Fl. the view from our kitchen table. :(

Yuck! one night and we were gone!

New bike rack.

April 1 2018
 Happy Easter and April fools day! March flew by and was mostly cool and windy with a couple of nice days thrown in. Karri and Rob LaBarre were here for a week. They stayed in Weeki Wachee and had a very nice large home. We went kayaking from their home and they served us a lovely meal on their deck. They came to the campground a couple of times for dinner and met our friends. they week went fast. Brad and family come today for a week. Excited to see them. We have been busy saying goodbye to many folks we have come to say are friends. Beth and Todd left today. Todd and Beth, John and Laurie and tom and I went to Old World Resteraunt ( a german menu) for a goodbye meal on Friday night. It was delicious and John and Laurie treated all of us, which was super nice of them. We are so lucky to have such good friends. The campground is emptying out fast as most are heading back home already. They snow is still flying in Wi. and I don't want to go home to that. They have had a miserable winter.

Laurie's early birthday. Great evening with the whole darn gang!

val and ken kayaking

The birthday gal starts her birthday month celebration