Heading South

Here is a photo of a turtle sunning on a log in the Indian River.

With tears in our eyes, we left Disney World. It seems that Mel's food poisoning was, in fact, the flu, because I woke up in the middle of the night with the same issues. Then, we heard on the morning news that there is an outbreak of flu in the south Florida area, so we must have come in contact with a carrier. Of course, with the crowds at Disney, it would be hard to avoid germs and bacteria. Nonetheless, we loved our visit.

There is a cold front heading Florida's way so we ran south to Fort Lauderdale. It will even be cold there, too, but nothing like the area north of Orlando. Once I got Mel to I95, I slept to Pompano Beach. When I woke, Mel was in a major traffic jam, so I quickly looked at a map to get us further west and closer to our campsite.

When we arrived at our campgrounds, which is in the Everglades, we were a little disappointed. It surely is no Disney World and much below our standards but the people are nice and tried to be helpful. We will not be wandering around at night-we are in the Everglades with water all around. I tried calling several different RV parks both when we were in Orlando and when we arrived in the Everglades but no luck. It seems Florida is bursting at the seams at this time of year.