A group of these Seaport Samers used to winter in Florida with their RVs. Most went to Titusville on the East Coast of Florida, and some went to Mexico Beach on the Panhandle. Alice was still working, and her mother was in a nursing home, and it wasn't the time for us to join them. When Alice’s mom passed we decided to head down to Titusville with the group. Our first reservation was for four weeks, and we extended by two weeks….and the following year we reserved for two months. Absolutely loved the area and went to three months the following year and finally four months+ when we realized we had to make serious plans to move there and stop the winter commute.
So, we purchased a townhouse in Titusville and sold our CT home, and the first thing we did here was look up Good Sam Chapters and found the Space Coast Sams. We joined them, became very active and made many new friends in a place where we had none, and that brings me to the point of this epistle.
Both Chapters are gone now. Old age and illness/declining health forced many to get out of RVing and the Chapters were unsustainable. We moved to Florida from CT in 2012, and it occurs to me that (like in It’s A Wonderful Life), the situation we now enjoy would not have happened if any number of things had thrown us a curve. To start, if Ken and Ellen hadn’t got us into Seaport Sams we wouldn’t have made all those new friends that eventually led us to Titusville…..where we met many new people through Space Coast Sams….which are the nucleus of our social circle here.
We’re very thankful for the friends we’ve had, and have and for the lucky breaks we’ve had in making and keeping them. Truly they are a blessing.
