We spent the weekend before Thanksgiving camping with our friends Mick & Heidi and their girls Haley & Lola at Chassahowitzka River Campground in Homosassa, FL. If you ever want to see old school Florida, this is it. The campground is nice with full hookups and lots of foliage. The foliage was thick enough that we had no luck with our DISH satellite and the campground is far enough away from civilization that we couldn’t pickup any TV channels on antenna. No loss there because we were spending time with friends and there really wasn’t any time for watching TV. The campground Wi-Fi signal was strong, but unfortunately there wasn’t enough bandwidth to make it usable. We did get good Verizon coverage on our cell phones for both voice and data.
Beth kayaked on the Chassahowitzka River by herself one of the days and with Heidi and her friend Nell the next day. The springs were beautiful, but she did not encounter any manatees. Now that Haley works for a bicycle shop we hired her to tune up Beth’s bike. She did a great job and Beth’s bike is now pedaling like new.
We managed to cook over a fire every night except the first night. One of those night’s we cooked Pork Burgers purchased at Mishler’s Packing back home in Indiana. They were delicious.
Unfortunately, on our way home we had a little incident pulling into the Gibsonton, FL Walmart to purchase diesel fuel. The entrance was at such a steep angle that the tail of our RV dragged on the ground. Apparently, the bearing in our radiator fan had gone out and was literally hanging by a thread. The sudden impact from the tail of the RV hitting the ground finally caused the fan assembly to fall out of alignment. We were afraid to drive it at that point so we parked it and waited patiently on a tow truck for six hours. While we waited, Beth made two trips home in the Tahoe with everything we could think to unload from the RV. Meanwhile, the long wait provided the opportunity to observe all the “interesting” activity occurring in that particular Walmart parking lot (a murder resulting from a drug deal gone bad occurred there the following week). The tow truck eventually arrived and took the RV two miles across the interstate to the local CAT dealer.
Heavy Tow Truck
