More from St. Augustine

Tuesday, Oct 24 ... Drove 160 miles to the National RV Service Center in Lakeland. We are staying in their parking lot for the next 2 nights. They will be doing some warrenty work on the motorhome on Wed. and Thur.
Monday, Oct 23 … Drove to the Jacksonville airport to pick up Dixie returning from EWR. Came home and started putting away things around the mh in preparation for blast off tomorrow to Lakeland, Fl.
Sunday, Oct 22 … Mike took a long bike ride along the costal road and over to the international waterway to the west. Worked around the mh today & watched some of the NFL game in which the Houston Texans defeated the Jacksonville team 27 - 7.
Saturday, Oct 21 … Dixie is going to EWR for a wedding of a friend she used to work with. The flights out of JAX or DAB to EWR were booked heavily so she flew to IAH and did an overnighter with a friend. They then took a flight to EWR from IAH on Sunday morning. Mike stayed home & watched the Cardinals win the first game of the 2006 World Series over the Detroit Tigers.
Friday, Oct 20 … Not much doing today. Stayed close to home and did laundry and some things around the mh. We did walk/jog along the costal highway for about 30 minutes. The weather was sunny.
Thursday, Oct 19 … Today we decided to take in the so called “Fountain of Youth”. In 1513 Ponce de Leon came ashore to mark and record for all time the first chapter of our colonial history - the discovery of America. The spring was thought to be a “fountain of youth” because the Indians who lived there were very tall (average height of 6’ 6” ) and lived to be 85-90 years of age whereas people from Spain only lived to 35-40 years. The water was available so we had a small cup of it. (Of course, you could buy more of it in the gift shop)
Next in the park was the Navigator’s celestial Planetarium. This astounding exhibit revealed the ancient mysteries of navigation, the star instrument that brought together the viewer and Ponce de Leon under the night sky of North America’s discovery.
The next exhibit was the Explorer’s Discovery Globe. In eight minutes you see the first 100 Spanish years of new world exploration and conquest. It was a huge globe that stood 2 stories and rotated with the story.
We had brought lunch with us in the cooler so we found a picnic table at the Lighthouse State Park. We then walked to the beach and spread out the towel and took a nap.