We left Ocala National Forest to start the trek westward along the Florida panhandle. We needed to do a big shop and found the most epic boondocking parking lot ever outside Tallahassee, with a Walmart, Costco, Dollar Tree, Bass Pro Shop, McDonalds and two other restaurants. It even had a large enough grassy area we could throw the ball for Coco. Proved to be a popular rest spot, with about 10 other RVs hunkering down for the night including plates from Ontario and Nova Scotia.
Now enjoying our second day at Wright Lake in Apalachicola National Forest. It’s a remote, quiet and peaceful little lake with only about 20 sites surrounded by tall thin pines. We did the 4.5 mile loop hike around the area, and in places the trees are perfectly aligned in rows...this must have been the site of early tree-planting programs.
Met my first rattlesnake in the wild - a 14 inch pygmy rattler that shook its tail telling me that I was too close. Kept my distance!
The peace is occasionally punctured by the drone of fighter jets playing war games overhead. I think we’re near the “Top Gun” Air Force Base, but not sure...and I can’t google it because we are so remote there is no cell service here.
But it’s perfect...nothing to do but just relax, read, take in the nature. I find myself so much more present in these environments - stripped from the “to-do” lists, the pretence and appearances, the rush of having to be somewhere or do something. Andrew busies himself with trailer maintenance and firewood preparation, and Coco is flaked out in the shade. Ahhhh....think the afternoon’s itinerary will include lunch of Asian chicken salad, more progress on my book about the Irish Rebellion of 1916, and a glass of vino!
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