Travelin' Dreams: Warm Weather...Finally!

Wednesday's weather in Port Richey was on the cool side, so we had us a laid back, read the book, drink the coffee, take a nap kind of day. Thursday was not much better so we took the dogs back to the causeway at Fred Howard Park. The wind was really howling so we didn't stay long. Finally on Friday, we hit the beach. It was a high of 65 with 15-20 mph winds straight out of the north, not exactly my idea of beach weather but we grabbed some sun. As usual, the beach there was very nice.

We left Port Richey on Saturday morning at 6:00 a.m. and headed to the Keys. We pulled into the airport at 1:55 to pick up our car from Enterprise. They close at 2:00 so we just made it. 8 hours of driving, all done by Doug, and only 2 stops. One bathroom break and one for fuel.

We are on Grassy Key just north of Marathon at the Jolly Roger Travel Park. We stayed here last March and loved it. The park is far more crowded than last year and we didn't get a site with a water view. In fact, we were sort of shoe horned in a spot with neighbors on both sides who were a bit grumpy. This morning while walking the dogs, I noticed that some folks were leaving and saw about 8 empty sites. Early this afternoon before running errands, we headed to the office to see if they could move us. Sure enough they could and we ended up on nice, wide site in the new area. We still don't have a water view, but at least we can see the sky and have tons of room.

And the weather! Now this is more like it. It was a high of 78 today and only going to be a low of 69 tonight. Highs in the 70's to low 80's and lows in the 60's at night for the next 5 days. I'm a happy camper.

I headed to the water tonight to watch sunset. Lots of water birds are around.