STS Hop 11
198 miles, almost all on I-75.
It doesn’t get much simpler than this: get on I-75 at the exit from Cecil Bay RV Park and just keep going until exit 309 in Florida, then travel 1.5 miles on county 673 to our destination. It was a flat, pleasant trip in 90-degree sunshine. I-75 has traffic, but not as much as I-95 and is generally in better repair.
We saw our first billboards for businesses in Ft. Myers. We are getting close.
We will be in Bushnell for a week, trying to get our Florida drivers licenses, get our vehicles registered (except, probably, the Yaris, which is not yet in Florida), register to vote and anything else that goes along with becoming, officially, residents of Florida.
Cecil Bay RV Park
Cecil Bay RV Park
Fire ants
This was just an overnight stop, so we didn’t care much about the amenities. Good thing, because there aren’t any. It is basically a large plot of land populated entirely with large pull-through sites. It does have cable TV.
The place was maybe 20% occupied (see photo above – we are just to the left of the right-hand tree). So with all of those empty sites you would think that we would get one in great shape. But you would be wrong; they gave us the one where the 50 amp electrical hookup was broken. That was not a real problem as we operate quite well on 30 amps. But why?
One thing Cecil Bay has in abundance is insects. Small, annoying flies that won’t leave you alone. And fire ants. LOTS of fire ants.
We were glad it was just an overnight.