Brian and Ruth On the Road

Blog  #13 🎄Merry Christmas🎄   As you can see by the photo we have added a new family member.  Meet Theodore, aka, Teddy.  He is a 10 week old, 5 lb., Shipoo.  Thats 1/4 Shih Tzu, 3/4 Poodle. (Full-grown he should be 10-14 lbs) He is absolutely adorable, which is a good thing because he is a lot of work.  He's just a baby, so we take turns getting up every 2 hours to let him out of his crate to go potty. (tiny dog, tiny bladder) We have to watch him like a hawk, always.  He doesnt understand the rules of the house yet. The last part of December has been slow at the campground, which is nice because it gives us a break, and time with (training) Teddy.  We had been told that the Campground was going to be 80% occupied for the Christmas weekend.  But then the Polar express came barreling down from Canada to Georgia.  We had cancellation after cancellation.  There are 2 campers in our loop 1 this Christmas weekend.  It w...

Blog #12                                           Happy Day after Thanksgiving 🦃🍂 We have been here at Georgia Veterans State Park for almost 6 weeks now.   It tooks us awhile to get into a groove.  This park is run by a concessionaire, Coral Hospitality.  Its a big operation, with a hotel and conference center, golf course, archery range, restaurants, and more.   I don't know about the Hotel but the campground is mainly run by the hosts.  Basically we are on our own.  Another host took us by the hand and got us our golf cart and keys, showed us around.  Told us where to get supplies.  They had been running the 82 spot campground on their own cleaning 2 of the bath houses.  The other bath house was cleaned by a paid park employee.  Badly, I might add.  Thats the one we inherited, it looked like a haunted house i...

  #11 Blog             Greetings from Georgia Veterans Memorial Park As we suspected, we could not  return to Koreshan state park in Estero, Florida.  Most of the barrier island parks south of Fort Myers were either gone or uninhabitable.😢 Koreshan was damaged, but not to the point that it couldn't be used as a placement for strike teams and Rangers who had lost their homes and parks. There was no room for volunteers, at least not for a month or two. So..... The maintenance Ranger (Dan) was very upset that he was not involved in this decision, because Brian was fixing vehicles, tractors, hydraulics  and antique engines. They had a antique machine shop that Brian was going to machine parts to show the public how the machines worked. Brian is very disappointed he is not going back. Maybe next year. But not during hurricane season. Ruth found a listing in the Georgia state park volunteer website for a camp hosting job i...

 9/28/2022     #10 Hello from John Prince county Park, Lake Worth, Fl.  We are just south of West Palm Beach, where The Donald lives. We are mostly out of harms way.  No storm surge from hurricane here.  We are under Tropical Storm warning.  We did have a tornado south of us yesterday afternoon.  This morning we were woken up at 5:00 am by very fierce, lightening and thunder. Then we received a tornado warning over our phones about 5:45am, while we were up and drinking coffee.  We put on our coats and walked probably 100ft. to the concrete bath houses which serve as shelters here at the campground, and stayed till the tornado warning was over, about 30 min. The 6:00 am hangout at the bath house.  Tornado warning!                                   We had our fellow evacuees, Sherry and John (from North Dakota)  over for brunch today.  ...

#9 Just a short note.  We have been evacuating across Florida, trying to get out of the way of Ian.🤞 As of now we are headed to Prince John County Park near Lake Worth/ Ft. Lauderdale.  They are evacuating the ACOE,  (Ortona park ) we are in now.👀                                                         Prince John county park OXOX  R&B

= Hello from the Sunshine State! St. Lucie South Campground Stuart, Florida Its been 6 weeks since Ive blogged.   ("Forgive me Father for I have sinned.", just came to mind) 😈 You Catholic school children should get that. Yesterday afternoon as I worked on my outline it was absolutely pouring buckets of rain, along with thunder and lightening. 89 degrees Today its sunny and 85. I left off, stating that we were looking for winter work, after Tennessee VA campground.  I quickly got to work on that, as our boss Connie suprised us with September 15th being our end date, instead of November 15 when the park closed.   Brian and I put our applications in the Florida and Georgia State Parks volunteer websites.  We had to wait to be vetted.  Long story short, Ruth, (me), found a listing for help wanted, Diesel mechanic, Koreshan State Park, Estero, Fl. We will have volunteer jobs at Koreshan SP, till Dec 31. Free Hookup and Utilities.  FHU ...