This year, we have quite a few small alligators hanging around the dock on the Suwannee River. Some park guests report seeing as many as six at one time. Here's a picture I took of two small 'gators sunning themselves this morning. A Couple of Small 'Gators Sunning...

On Sunday, January 8, Mary Alice and I visited Stephen Foster State Park. Mary Alice remembered visiting it several times in her youth, but I had never been there. It was built to commerate Stephen C. Foster, a prolific songwriter during the middle 1800s. One of his...

We made it back to the travel trailer this morning, about 11:00 A.M. ET, after leaving Marianna, FL, about 7:30 A.M. CT. We got the travel trailer dewinterized without incident and found we still had plenty of propane. I was worried the propane tanks would be empty...

After spending Christmas in Topeka, KS, with our oldest son and his family, we are back in sunny Florida! We stopped for the night in Marianna, FL, where the skies were blue, and the temperature was 56F when we arrived at about 3:45 PM CT. That's not particularly warm...

After spending last night in Springfield, MO, we made it to Topeka, KS, about 12:30 PM. The weather was overcast all day, and the temperature hovered around 30F, but we didn't see a single snowflake. Not that I'm complaining, mind you! Snow and sub-zero temperatures...

On the first day of our three-day journey from Old Town, FL to Topeka, KS, we made it to Jasper, AL, and spent the night. We were on the road for about 7.5 hours and did not encounter any precipitation, although the sky got increasingly cloudy as we traveled to the...

Tomorrow morning, we are leaving FL headed for Topeka, KS. The weather forecast calls for a driving snow storm covering much of the midwest and mid-south. What's that, you say? Have we lost our minds? Well, maybe, but it's Christmas, and we haven't seen our oldest son...

Late yesterday afternoon, the ceiling-mounted air conditioner, in the travel trailer, started leaking copious amounts of water onto the kitchen counter. I suspected the evaporator coil drip pan was plugged up, thereby allowing water to drip inside the trailer. I found...

Finally, all systems on the travel trailer are working again! Yesterday, a new electric heating element for the RV refrigerator arrived at the park office. I retrieved it and, with Mary Alice's help, got it installed. Access to the refrigerator's innards is through a...

We made it to the park about 3:00 PM and worked to get set up for the next couple of hours. Afterwards, we cooked some small steaks on the grill and celebrated our arrival. Tomorrow, we'll take a stroll around the park to see what's changed since the spring. The...