25th Anniversary

Somehow a wedding anniversary isn’t quite the same when you are RV’ing. There was always a thought we would do something big for our 25^th anniversary like travel to Europe. Instead, we traveled in our RV. It was a very “special” day.

It started when we were trying to turn into our next stop in Navarre Florida. We were on a 4-lane parkway with high speed traffic. The first left into the park (where the phone gps told us to turn) didn’t have a left turn lane so we went to the 2^nd left (where the RV gps told us to turn). Unfortunately, the only vehicle that could make that left is a small car. We couldn’t get back out on the road going west so John had to try to make the U-turn. By going in the grass, he almost would have made it but then there was a mail box in the way. We all ran out and disconnected the car. You have to picture that we are stuck across the 2-lanes going east. There were no cars when we tried to make the turn but now cars were stopped watching us disconnecting and moving the vehicles back and forth to get out. In reality, we probably only stopped traffic for a minute but it seemed longer and cars were REALLY backed up by then.

We got to the RV park. I didn’t make reservations since our schedule had been rather fluid. They told us they didn’t have anything! As we were working out how to get to our backup place, we were told we could have a spot for 2 nights. OK… After we got set up, we found we couldn’t get their cable to work and there was no TV antennae reception. We spent about an hour with the owners trying to get cable to work but no luck.

Around 3 pm I started looking on yelp. Turns out fine-dining isn’t one of Navarre’s specialties. The best rated restaurants had tacos and burritos and closed at 2 pm. The best one we could find that was open was a burger joint. At least it was a burger joint with beer.

OK, the good news was that John surprised me with a card. Given that most of the time we’re together when we shop, that was pretty amazing. I wasn’t as good…no card from me.

Just to make this a more positive post, here’s what you see when you geocache. They were watching me!