Not Eaten by Giant Lizards

It’s been a while since my blog readers have head anything from me. Frankly, it’s been a while since most people have heard from me. A few family and friends received text messages by way of an Inreach satellite communications device. Christmas evening we drove the long road into town to get cell signal to wish people a Merry Christmas.

We are currently at Flamingo Florida in the Federal Campground. There’s an ATT&T tower here, but that’s not what my cell phone or hotspot connects too. Only recently have I learned that there’s wifi at the Visitor’s Center. It’s weak and sketchy, but it’s there. I’m hoping this post can go out on it.

Our trip from the Ocala to here was a bitNot Eaten by Giant Lizards

It’s been a while since my blog readers have head anything from me. Frankly, it’s been a while since most people have heard from me. A few family and friends received text messages by way of an Inreach satellite communications device. Christmas evening we drove the long road into town to get cell signal to wish people a Merry Christmas.

We are currently at Flamingo Florida in the Federal Campground. There’s an ATT&T tower here, but that’s not what my cell phone or hotspot connects too. Only recently have I learned that there’s wifi at the Visitor’s Center. It’s weak and sketchy, but it’s there. I’m hoping this post can go out on it.

Our trip from the Ocala to here was a bit of a nightmare. That’s partially my fault. Theoretically it’s possible to drive it in one day. However, that assumes there wouldn’t be accidents that slow traffic down to a crawl.

Just to make it more interesting, after a gas stop we pulled off in a parking lot to assess our situation. Soon after a nice Hispanic gentleman informed me I was in his space. No problem, I tried to start the car and it wouldn’t turn over. Fortunately his non-English speaking drunken friend was able to help me jump start the car. They really were actually very nice about it.

By then we were outside of Miami and decided to take a room for the night. The next day I had a garage check out the Blazer and find out what happened. To my surprise it was just a bad battery. The battery was only a month old so I didn’t think that could be it. My thought was that perhaps the alternator was bad. Nope, turned out to be the battery after all.

We’ve been doing fine here. There’s been some interesting weather, but even when it rains it’s warm, so that’s good. There’s been a lot of small craft advisory days. Christmas day we took the boat out in Florida Bay and had a good sail.

We’ll be here for a couple more days then we are moving to a different park in the Everglades for a three nights. After that we’ve booked ten days in a marina in the Keys.

The good weather and exercise has been doing me a lot of good. Another thing, I’ve almost no idea what’s been going on in the news. That seems to have helped me state of mind some too!

-Sixbears of a nightmare. That’s partially my fault. Theoretically it’s possible to drive it in one day. However, that assumes there wouldn’t be accidents that slow traffic down to a crawl.

Just to make it more interesting, after a gas stop we pulled off in a parking lot to assess our situation. Soon after a nice Hispanic gentleman informed me I was in his space. No problem, I tried to start the car and it wouldn’t turn over. Fortunately his non-English speaking drunken friend was able to help me jump start the car. They really were actually very nice about it.

By then we were outside of Miami and decided to take a room for the night. The next day I had a garage check out the Blazer and find out what happened. To my surprise it was just a bad battery. The battery was only a month old so I didn’t think that could be it. My thought was that perhaps the alternator was bad. Nope, turned out to be the battery after all.

We’ve been doing fine here. There’s been some interesting weather, but even when it rains it’s warm, so that’s good. There’s been a lot of small craft advisory days. Christmas day we took the boat out in Florida Bay and had a good sail.

We’ll be here for a couple more days then we are moving to a different park in the Everglades for a three nights. After that we’ve booked ten days in a marina in the Keys.

The good weather and exercise has been doing me a lot of good. Another thing, I’ve almost no idea what’s been going on in the news. That seems to have helped me state of mind some too!

-Sixbears