Tues. March 11- Fri. March 14

LoiWe arrived at our next stop, Wilderness RV Park in Silver Springs, FL.. This is the park we stayed at 2 years ago for a month. It is really a nice place and it is only an hour away from our favorite beach. Ormand Beach, which is near Datona Beach. But the weather being what it has been, it does't look like we will be getting in much beach time.  After we got all checked in, we took a ride down to the beach just to check it out. It was really chilly and the waves were strong. I called it an "angry ocean". We are going to be at Wilderness for 4days, hopefully the weather will warm up.

Well Wed. We woke to a very rainy day, in fact it had rained hard all night, no beach today : ( !!  Being that it was still raining mid-morning and didn't look like it would be stopping any time soon, we decided to get in the car and go find some junk yards. Richard is still looking for a tailgate for one of his trucks.Well, we sure saw ALOT of areas in Florida we never even heard of, some really pretty small cities, some not so. If I never see another junk yard it will be just fine with me! Oh, by the way, we didn't  find a tailgate. But in our travels today, we never realized Florida was such a horse state. We saw quite a few horse ranches, some really big ones. Later we treated ourselves to Sonny's Bar-be-que ribs, they were very good.

Thurs. Guess what? No beach again today, very chilly. : (  : ( !!  So, yep, off to some more junk yards, Richard is persistent in trying to find that tailgate!  No luck again today. But the weather cleared up by afternoon, too late to drive to the beach. We saw a golf course nearby, so we went to the driving range and hit a bucket of balls. Then we treated ourselves to banana splits at this little ice-cream place called Brewsters. It is a cute little place, every few minutes they would have bubbles fly out of the roof. The little kids there really enjoyed them, they were pretty.

Friday - chilly, no beach again. Looks like this year we have to pass on Ormand Beach, darn!! We were really looking forward to it. We knew of a flea market we were to last year when we stayed here open only Fri, Sat &Sun, so we went there. Later we went to the golf course and Richard golfed 9 holes. I had a sore shoulder, so I didn't feel like golfing so I was the caddy and drove the cart. We came back to our RV and I did the laundry since they have a real nice laundry room. When I got back to the RV , Richard  gave me the bad news, we have a problem ... The RV won't start, it won't even turn over with the spare battery Richard brought with us. he tried everything he could think of with no luck. A few of the guys here at the park came over to help, but no luck and it was getting dark.We are supposed to leave here tomorrow. So as of now, we will have to check with the office in the morning to inquire who around here works on RV's. Richard is not very happy right now, he is used to finding the problem and fixing it himself. This is not good. We just hope we don't have to have the RV towed. This is the first major problem we've had since the 4 years we have been RVing.