Thursday, June 14, 2018

Good morning. It’s 8 o’clock and we are on our way to Lion Country Safari in South Florida. We’re a little early leaving at 8 o’clock, but we’re ready, so we might as well get going. It’s a sticky day at 78° already. We are forecast to be 90° here and I’ll bet even hotter down south. (Nope. It’s cloudy so a little cooler!)

we are in site 96 off elephant walk. 


Dawn is working this weekend otherwise I think they would have joined us for the trip.

Driving along I-95 ... we’d forgotten about 6 lanes of traffic. Ha! These are busier in this part of Florida. It’s nice to see the Sea Grape trees. At Southern Boulevard we saw our first pan handler! Haven’t missed seeing them. We saw Trump’s plane at PBA. 

Lion Country Safari has changed a lot since I was here last, decades ago. This is their 50th anniversary year. Mom and I were here in the 1980s! We drove here in dad‘s old red Ford station wagon that he used for renovating the condos. I’m not sure why we didn’t take the new vehicle, but whatever. It got us here and we toured around it. It’s kind of a funny memory because it was just mom and I that went whereas usually it would have been a whole car load of family. Mark and I will take a drive through the Safari area probably tomorrow morning. 

Tonight we went to dinner with Karen, Pete and grandson Peyton. 17 RVers met at Carrabba’s ... good service and very good food. Afterward Peyton wanted ice cream and Pete patiently drove around looking for Rita’s ... with lousy GPS directions. Ha! It was a fun time. 

Back at the campground we watched TV with the Scotties.