Gone for 8+ Months Starting Today, Sewer Problems

No pictures in this brief post, just a quick recap.

Trip back to the condo from Lake Mary went real well.  Had a great visit with Dean and Caryl (and Hattie).  It included a great meal at a real good Greek Restaurant in neighboring DeLand, Florida called Santorini Greek Cuisine.  I had the Pastitsio / Moussaka Combo dinner with a cup of Avgolemono Soup.  This soup was the second best Avgolemono that I have had, only slightly behind Mama Maria's in Tarpon Springs.  The Pastitsio and Moussaka were very good. The only thing about this restaurant is the size....very small.  We did not have to wait, but we sat at a table for four which touched a table for four on each side.  Overall, it probably seats around 45 people total inside, and another dozen or so outside on the sidewalk.  But the Yelp and Trip Advisor ratings are exellent, and the food lived up to the ratings in our opinions.  (links to Pastitsio, Moussaka and Avgolemono Soup are to Wikipedia sites to explain/show what it is.)

Tuesday after we got home I loaded a few more things into the motorhome and squeezed it back out of the condo area onto the street where they had shut down the main entrance again because, and some of you will die when you hear this, the new sewer lines were leaking!!!!!  Yep, maybe they will have it all done by the time we get back in December!  I then gave Bubba an overdue clipping job, and he once again looks good.  I hope to give them both another clipping when we get to Sacramento area, and again right before we leave to head north.

Wednesday I took Bubba and went and got the motorhome and parked it in a neighboring Grocery Store lot.  I then made a few trips back and forth to get the few things we still needed into it, and also did a grocery run.  By 2 pm we were ready for our showers, and by 3:15 we officially locked up the condo, after turning off the water, covering the toilets, up-plugging many items, turning the A/C up to 80, and turning the Hot Water Heater off.  After a quick run to the eyeglasses place where Marcia is still trying to get a pair of eyeglasses to work right that she bought in January, which we hope are fixed for good now, we went and sat in the church parking lot until an hour before the service started, went and got dinner and enjoyed our last service “in person” until December.  Of course, we will watch services online, which to us is a huge blessing because it is like being home away from home.

Tonight we are sitting in another wonderful Florida Rest Area, secured by a guard, and with how tired we are (Marcia is already asleep) I am sure it will be a wonderful nights rest regardless of the noise of traffic going by.  Our first scheduled items is breakfast with my oldest brother Jim and his wife Carol in San Antonio on Saturday morning.

Quick Escape

Is it an escape, or bringing the fur family back together with us again?  In any case, we are having a quick (as in short) outing with the dogs.  Headed to Hillsborough River State Park for two nights, about 45 miles from our Condo.  Tried to get in on Sunday, but I forgot that Monday was a holiday, so no luck with that one…probably pretty lucky getting in for Monday night and Tuesday night as it is when I made the reservations on February 3rd.  Since we want to get as much time in as we can between church on Sunday and church on Wednesday night…we decided to stay at our favorite rest area along I-75.  We have posted about this before, most recently on this post.

This Georgie Boy pulled in for about 10 minutes…as did another one, but as of 7:30 ET, we have the RV area to ourselves.

And guess what I found this time?  Yep, a dog park.  One for small dogs, and on the other side of that fence….

…the bigger dogs.

    

    

It is so nice having the two dogs together again….nothing has changed.  They go off alone, and then they group together.  On the way back to the motorhome, they were a bit hesitant.  Gee, I wonder what they were thinking….

…well, don’t start wondering unless you are willing to find out the truth of the matter.

Tomorrow is another day, one in which I hope we might have a more scenic sunset than this one from across the Interstate.  We have never been to Hillsborough River State Park, and I have done zero research on it except seeing one blog I follow which says it has the State’s only class three whitewater rapids “if conditions are right”….which does not mater to us since we have no kayak anyway.