The "View From Here" Feb.19

Traveling

Traveling around the Florida Keys has made me very lazy. I seldom have the ambition to write any more. Since staying in Myakka State park, we have been in constant travel mode! We have been back in the Florida Keys now since late January. We spent another four days in Key West and have stayed at a variety of State parks and RV campgrounds since. Along the way we have met a lot of great new friends and traveling companions. RVing is addictive! You meet people of like mind who are travelers and explorers of the country. Travelers! We sort of like the freedom of the road, but also crave contact with people we can share that with. Not all people we meet here are like that. Many are older retired folk who just want to be in Florida because it’s warm. They come to one or to spots and stay put for the whole winter.
The traveling folks, the ones I first referred to are far more ambitious. Some live in their RV’s full time and have sold everything else they have, while others still have a home base but spend most of the time traveling the roads of this great country learning what it’s all about. That’s us too. Some how we always end up recognizing each other when we meet. We show up with bikes and kayaks and other things needed for life on the road strapped on the back of our RV’s. We have a certain willingness to say hi to each other, and always want to trade notes on where we’ve been or tips on how to modify our RV’s or great web sites on traveling info.
Lately amongst all the other fine folks, we’ve begun to meet other, people with Winnebago Views / Itasca Nivion RV’s. It turns out we are part of sort of a growing sub species of travelers. Our small but very versatile motor homes are fast becoming the choice of many of us wandering folk. In fact it’s almost attained a cult status with whole web site dedicated to our following. There are even conventions in many parts the country just dedicated to people who own Views and Navions.
So when we meet on the roads we always flash our lights at each other. In camp grounds we usually say hello. Often we end up visiting, and often we end up eating supper together. Last week we ended up dancing the night away with fine folks from Tennessee, inside even, at their place. Two nights later we had a barbeque at our place, really cranked the tunes and again danced the night away, outside this time! Great fun. Since then we have again met another couple with the same rig again. The same type of independent minded, free spirited folk. They all want to come visit Canada some day soon. So some day I can see a bunch of us getting together for an extended road trip across our own great country. Grace and I are busy scoping out the itinerary this year!
At the time of this writing we are staying in Curry Hammock State Park just Noth of Marathon. It is a very beautiful quiet almost Zen like place right on the ocean. It has a lovely quiet beach with soft white sand that is always peaceful to sit on. We are here for twelve days till February 26th. From here we will be making our way North again till we arrive home, Lord willing Mar. 5th.