Buddy, the New Dog

http://dogtime.com/dog-breeds/treeing-walker-coonhound

Stephen Foster Culture State Park in White Springs FL AND....we have a new family member!!

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Well, we've been adopted!  Had a nice week up at Stephen Foster Culture State Park in White Springs Fl.  On our 2nd evening there we were visited by a hound....stayed at the edge of the campsite, but with the aid of some cheese got him to get close.  Last night he came back (we were having a pot luck and he smelled the grill going?) and I got a collar on him....but he slipped it.  So, I talked to some campground hosts and they said he (they called him Buddy) had been hanging around the park since around December....they and others were feeding him but the Park Rangers had decided he had to go to the shelter soon if no one took him.  I told them we were interested and they managed to collar him this morning.  Don't know if he ever rode in a motor home before (or a car for that matter) but he did well in both.  He's very nervous and it's going to take some acclimation time.  He's a Walker Coon Hound, and we figure about a year old. VERY affectionate... Tomorrow we'll be making a vet appointment for his shots, getting him fixed etc.  So, we're hoping Buddy is happy here and likes camping :).  I need the walking exercise and this guy will see to it that it happens...he's rescued me.

Morning musing....

Alice is doing good after the orthopedic surgery on her left knee.  She's had her follow up visit and everything is looking good.  Next week, after we return from our camping jaunt to Stephen Foster Folk Culture State Park she'll have a physical therapy session.  Today we're meeting up with Duane and Nancy and Mel and Dotti and going out to lunch to celebrate Dotti's birthday.  Tonight we have a play "Menopause" at Titusville Playhouse, and then tomorrow early it's off camping for the week.

Alice's surgery Arthroscopy Left Knee

Alice had arthroscopy surgery on her left knee on Friday January 26th and everything seems to be good :)...she's feeling a LOT better than when she went in.  Today we'll hobble over to the Cocoa Village Theater and see 42nd Street....

Next up: Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park...

Next up is Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park from Feb 4th thru Feb 8th (4 nights). There will be some friends from our former Good Sam Chapter meeting us there.  Since the Chapter folded we're camping as much, if not more, but instead of going to commercial (private) campgrounds we find ourselves going to the State and National Parks...and much further afield. 

Song  Suwannee River (Old Folks At Home) (from YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S0keeGIgcY

New shoes for the pony.....

It seems like we've been running around since dawn.  Went to our tire place in Cocoa, talked to them about our tire issues, and ended up having four new tires installed and all six balanced.  Then we topped off the fuel, and the propane, for our next excursion coming up early February.  Our new modus operandi on tires is this:   FiVE years, not 6 or 6+.  Notation made in the computer calendar on that...

Big Lagoon State Park, Pensacola Fl, January 2018 -With Robert & Nina Harnish

2 Minute Video of trip (full album linked below) https://photos.app.goo.gl/6JxIJr9ZszePI09B3

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We went to Big Lagoon State Park in Pensacola Fl leaving Titusville on January 7th.  1st night out we stayed at Tallahassee RV Park on i-10, then we spent four nights at Big Lagoon, leaving there on Friday January 12th for Travelers Campground in Alachua Fl (exit 399 off i-75) where we stayed two nights before heading home to Titusville.
On the way to Alachua we had a right-front blowout on i-10, about 40 miles before the i-75 interchange.  After a fashion we got a tire delivered and installed, and went on our way.....until we noticed a nasty front end vibration.  We had turned onto i-75 at this point and were within 25 miles of our next CG destination, so I slowed down a lot...trying to find a speed that was comfortable for the vibration.  Silly me I thought we were dealing with an unbalanced new front right tire.  We limped into the Travelers Campground, checked in and got set up, and i checked the front of the rig...and found the left front tire had a seriously nasty big balloon...we were VERY lucky it didn't blow, and if it had been warmer it probably would have.  So, the next morning we got a tire repair person out and the left front tire was replaced.

Good friends of ours, Dick and Melanie Baker, live in the Alachua area and they came by and took us out to dinner on Saturday.  It was wonderful seeing them and getting out of the rig for a bit!

Our trip home today was uneventful...thank God!  Total distance covered from here to the end of the Panhandle and back was about 1000 miles.  We love that area and have booked reservations for four nights in June for Fort Pickens National Campground, right on the Gulf....a lot of photos from there are on the following album.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/MBb8A1OqQPy5NN2G3