where did the Lance go?

Lanceless. Truck camper sold.

Wonder what is going to replace it?

Wait who's truck is that?

And what's going on?

NCAA Tourney

Thanks to technology we are driving on 540 in the Tioga watching the NCAA
Tournament on the laptop LIVE!

Crazy

On the way to Croatan National Forest in the Tioga Ranger

Chevrolet Chalet

Big time

Alcan

This drove the Alaska highway bumper sticker kindof takes some of the bite
out of the rumors, no?

I mean a Honda, come on.

Yup

Look funny? Well the back rider on this Harley, not a woman.. It's a dog
complete with helmet and goggles.

Furniture arrival

New furniture from Bassett

Back

Well we went to Flamingo but cell phone service didn't. Imagine 4 days
without a cell phone. That was pretty cool.

More on that next week. It was perfect! Birds seen and fish caught.

We are in Port St Lucie tonight and heading north. It sure is cold here.
Time to go back to Flamingo!

Camp

Tonight's secret camp is in Naples. Its not so secret but it should work
well.

On the way we saw about 20 wood storks next to the interstate. How cool is
that?

Ding Darling NWR

We saw many waders at DDNWR today.

It was unbelievable how close you could get to the waders.

sanibel

Sitting on the beach at the Sanibel causeway.

Tons of people and boats were out there today. Too many.

Then we went to Ding Darling NWR.

burrowing owl

In the center is a burrowing owl. I took some great photos of them today.

breakfast

Was really good at Cracker barrel.

History

A few pics from the first couple days.

All loaded up at home.

On the road first thing leaving Charlotte. Traffic got much much worse
later in the day.

One of the new hardened vehicles that replaces the Huumer and protects from
roadside bombs.

We stopped for a rest a a logging storage area. Thousands and thousands
logs. This is a tiny tiny fraction of the logs there. This was in the
edge of Florida.

Traffic by lunchtime on Thursday was unbearable. By far the worst traffic
I've ever seen. It has been that way through Saturday. We finally got off
95 on 301. 301 was very scenic and had much less traffic.

Camp

Camp from last night. Not too bad,probably good for these parts. Little
noisy starting at 5am.

Today

Was a good day. We woke up in a cool place, saw some birds, and had a
good time.

We are parked in Port Charlotte tonight. I hope we don't get chased off.

Tomorrow should be an awesome day including burrowing owls, Sanibel, and
more.

Night night

sandhill cranes

Late this afternoon we got off thee interstate to get out for a few
minutes, let a traffic jam sort out, and figure out what our target
location was for the evening.

As I pulled towards a grassy field (no knoll) I saw two sandhill cranes
feeding! It was way cool.

They are shown in the center. Can you see the birds?

In Ocala. 80 degrees. Jerry Jeff Walker plays on the radio.