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East Coast Trip Part 1, Stockton to Baltimore.


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#31 Old Crow

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Posted 28 March 2015 - 08:37 PM

I'm a Pennsylvania snowbird who makes the trip to Florida each winter.  When I go to Key West I stay at either Boyd's Campground in Key West or Lazy Lakes RV Resort on Sugarloaf Key (about 15 miles north). I paid $65 a night at Boyd's and $55 a night at Lazy Lakes. I see from their web sites that current rates are $63 at the former and $50 at the latter (and going to $40 on April 1st).

 

I was at first frustrated that I had to pay $65 at Boyd's for a tiny pull-off beside a 3/4-size picnic table and a pole-mounted BBQ and so close to the next site that I had to parallel-park into mine.  On the other hand, I was under a palm tree in very pleasant weather and within bicycling distance of downtown. Showers were fine and they have wi-fi throughout the campground and a laundry.

 

Lazy Lakes is primarily an RV resort but has about 10 open 'tent sites' around a pond.  The road around the pond is narrow and looks precarious but is fine for vans, pickups, etc. The sites are just open gravel and don't have site numbers so campers just kind of space themselves out in the available space.  The bath-house and showers are back on the RV side and reasonably clean.

 

In the Everglades, I've always been able to get into Long Pine Key and Flamingo campgrounds. If you stay at Long Pine Key, don't miss walking around the Anhinga Trail (at Royal Palm visitor's center)  boardwalk at night, preferably all alone at ten pm or so (yes, it's ok to do that).  Oh, yeah, and on your drive in and out, keep an eye out for panthers.  And pythons.

 

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#32 billharr

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Posted 03 April 2015 - 02:45 PM

Had my first experience with no-see-em's I HATE them. EG Simmons County Park in FL. Had to close all the windows and door. Warm but better than being eaten alive. In the morning we decided to just "bug out" and have breakfast at a restaurant. They swarmed me when I was latching the top. How do you live with these things on the east coast.????????


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#33 PaulT

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Posted 03 April 2015 - 04:58 PM

No-see-ums are not the sole possession of the East coast. We have them in the West, including Oregon, A recent thread was about installing no-see-um proof screens on your window screens and ceiling vents.  I think one solution was to spray insecticide on a paper towel and wipe over the screens as a temporary fix.

 

Now one Southern biting insect to which you may not have been properly introduced is the chigger, the bane of my existence growing up in NC.  They seem to prefer boundary areas when tight clothing stops and bare skin starts.  Don't lay down on grassy areas in areas where they live. You have not begun to itch until you encounter chiggers..

 

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#34 billharr

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Posted 09 April 2015 - 02:32 AM

Last camp at Tehachapi cold 45degrees@7:30

 

Edit can not link picture of snow on mountains above the camp 

 

Uploaded when I got home. 8,310 miles great trip.

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Edited by billharr, 10 April 2015 - 02:16 AM.

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#35 Flyer

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Posted 05 May 2015 - 12:01 AM

Enjoyed the trip.

 

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