NOT SAVANNAH!!!

I WAS EXCITED TO BE GOING TO GEORGIA!  I HAVE  NEVER BEEN IN  GEORGIA!!  WE HAD RESERVATIONS AT BEAVER RUN RV PARK.......JUST MINUTES FROM HISTORIC SAVANNAH. IT SOUNDED LIKE SUCH A UNIQUE  PLACE THIS WASN'T A PASSPORT AMERICA PARK, IT IS A  FAMILY OWNED PARK  AND ALL THE REVIEWS WERE EXCELLENT. WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE WAS HOME BAKED  COOKIES WHEN YOU ARRIVE!!  I  FOUND OUT I COULD HAVE MAIL SENT THERE, SO I ORDERED A FEW THINGS BEFORE LEAVING JACKSONVILLE.  SAVANNAH WASN'T FAR .

WE STOPPED AT THE VISITOR CENTER AND I PICKED UP SOME BROCHURES.

WOW! GEORGIA IS PRETTY COUNTRY!

WHEN WE LEFT JACKSONVILLE, I  PUT THE ADDRESS OF THE RV PARK  IN MRS. GARMIN. WE CAME TO THE EXIT FOR SAVANNAH......AND MRS. GARMIN SAID TO KEEP GOING.

WE DROVE AND DROVE.......UNTIL FINALLY CAME TO THE RV PARK.

ONE OF MY PACKAGES HAD ALREADY ARRIVED. WE ASKED THE DISTANCE TO SAVANNAH.....WE WERE MINUTES.....45 MINUTES!! WE LOVE THE RV PARK....LOOKS LIKE CAMPING AT DEERFIELD LAKE IN SOUTH DAKOTA....EXCEPT WE HAVE FULL HOOKUPS. I WAS DISAPPOINTED WE WERE SO FAR FROM SAVANNAH, BUT WE LOVE OUR SITE AND IT IS SOOOOOO QUIET HERE!!

IT WASN'T LONG AND THEY BROUGHT  THE HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!!  YUM!!!WARM FROM THE OVEN!!

I HAD ALREADY EATEN MINE, THIS ONE IS DARRELL'S .....THEY WERE DELICIOUS.
MAGGIE AND MARLEE LOVE IT HERE,  LOTS OF ELBOW ROOM.

MORE OF JACKSONVILLE

BEFORE GETTING MY HAIR DONE I WENT FOR MY THREE MILE WALK. THIS LAKE IS RIGHT IN THE RV PARK.

I WALKED NEXT DOOR TO THE FLEA MARKET.....THEY HAVE AN OUTDOOR BAR THERE, COMPLETE WITH AN ALLIGATOR. I GUESS FEEDING THE ALLIGATOR IS THEIR ENTERTAINMENT. HE'S A BIG ONE!! I WAS GLAD THERE WERE TWO FENCES BETWEEN US!

WHILE I WAS GETTING MY HAIR DONE, DARRELL FOUND A LAUNDROMAT AND WASHED CLOTHES.  I WAS AT THE BEAUTY SHOP FROM 11:00 TO 4:00. I HAD MY HAIR CUT, FOILED, AND EYEBROWS THREADED. IT TOOK A LONG TIME, BUT I LOVE MY HAIR! THIS IS A "BEFORE" PICTURE.

AND AFTER!

IT IS NOW A MORE MANAGEABLE LENGTH.

AND THE FOILING AND COLOR EVENED OUT THE GRAY.

I WAS STARVED BY THE TIME I WAS DONE, DARRELL TOOK ME TO OLIVE GARDEN.

THE NEXT MORNING  WE TOOK MAGGIE AND MARLEE TO PET SMART TO HAVE THEIR NAILS TRIMMED. IN THE AFTERNOON WE FOUND THE BIGGEST FARMER'S MARKET WE HAVE EVER BEEN TO.

HUGE VARIETY OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

BEFORE LEAVING FLORIDA I WANTED A "FLORIDA" SOUVENIR. I FOUND ONE FOR ME AND ONE FOR THE GIRLS.

WE LEFT THE NEXT MORNING FOR SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

JACKSONVILLE

THIS WOULD BE THE LAST LEG OF INTERSTATE 10, WE HAD BEEN ON IT SINCE  LEAVING ARIZONA.

WE DIDN'T HAVE FAR TO DRIVE....JACKSONVILLE WAS  CLOSE.

 WE WERE GLAD TO GET OFF THE ROAD...LOTS OF TRAFFIC .....THIS IS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND.

 WE ARRIVED AT PECAN PARK  BY NOON AND GOT ALL SET UP. IT IS A PASSPORT AMERICA PARK.

ANOTHER NICE LARGE, PULL THRU SITE.

WE WERE GLAD TO FIND A SHOPPING CENTER THAT WAS  CLOSE TO THE PARK. WALMART HAD FLORIDA ORANGES, THE FIRST ONES  WE'VE  FOUND IN FLORIDA.

THE NEXT MORNING WE WENT TO THE PECAN PARK  FLEA MARKET THAT IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO THE RV PARK.

WE ONLY BOUGHT BOILED PEANUTS.....IT WAS ALL PRETTY MUCH  JUNK.
THE NEXT DAY WE DROVE OVER  TO JACKSONVILLE LANDING. JACKSONVILLE IS A BEAUTIFUL CITY.

JACKSONVILLE IS ON THE ST. JOHNS RIVER, WHICH EMPTIES INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO.

JACKSONVILLE LANDING IS ON THE RIVERWALK WITH LOTS OF LITTLE SHOPS AND MUSIC TODAY.

WE WALKED ON THE RIVERWALK A WHILE AND WERE LOOKING INTO THE WATER WHEN DARRELL NOTICED SOMETHING IN THE WATER....... 

IT WAS A DOLPHIN!

 I WAS CONFUSED AS TO WHY A DOLPHIN WOULD BE IN A RIVER.....I ASKED SOME NICE FOLKS AND THEY SAID THEY WILL COME UP RIVER A WAYS LOOKING FOR FOOD. THEY ALSO SAID THEY HAVE BEEN COMING TO JACKSONVILLE LANDING RIVERWALK FOR 40 YEARS AND HAVE NEVER SEEN A DOLPHIN HERE.  WOW!!

 WE FELT FORTUNATE!! 

 WE DECIDED TO GO CHECK OUT THE SHOPS AND MUSIC.

WE BOUGHT AN ICE CREAM CONE AND LISTENED TO THE MUSIC FOR A WHILE.

IT WAS FUN JUST SITTING OUTSIDE " PEOPLE WATCHING!"  HAD TO GET HOME....BIG DAY TOMORROW....I  FOUND A BEAUTY SCHOOL ONLINE AND WAS GETTING MY HAIR DONE.....FINALLY!!!

SUWANEE RIVER, JACKSONVILLE

WE LEFT DEFUNIAK MAY 20, HEADED FOR SUWANNEE RIVER RV RESORT IN MAYO FLORIDA. WE FOUND THIS RV PARK IN OUR PASSPORT AMERICA BOOK.

 IT'S RIGHT ON THE BANKS OF THE SUWANNEE RIVER.

ANOTHER NICE  LARGE SITE!

COMPLETE WITH SWIMMING POOL AND HOT TUB!

AND THE BEAUTIFUL SUWANNEE RIVER!

WE WOULD BE HERE ONLY TWO DAYS. WE WERE WISHING IT WAS LONGER......SUCH A LOVELY PLACE! 

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CONVICT SPRINGS.....A COLD WATER SPRING. WE STUCK TO THE HEATED POOL AND HOT TUB, THEY WERE LOVELY!

THEY RENTED CANOES AND KAYAKS HERE, 

WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO CANOE THE SUWANNE, BUT NOT ENOUGH TIME....MAYBE WE WILL HAVE TO COME AGAIN?

WE DROVE OVER TO MAYO TO THE LITTLE GROCERY STORE.

STOPPED AT A LITTLE ROADSIDE STAND AND BOUGHT WATERMELON, PEACHES, BOILED PEANUTS, CUCUMBERS AND TOMATOES. 

THE NEXT DAY IT WAS TIME TO HIT THE ROAD AGAIN. WE ARE HEADED TO PECAN PARK RV RESORT IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA.