Denise and Rick Cunningham

Like many boomers we're planning the "next chapter". We live a fairly chaotic life in Georgetown in Washington DC. I'm a former fashion executive and journalist. Rick's an engineer and computer scientist. We're about ready for a little change of pace. Travel... perhaps moving to warmer climes ...and definitely savoring more moments. We never set out to buy an RV...matter of fact, we had never even been in one and I definitely don't camp. But, now, with more time and a growing aversion to the insults of air travel, we bought a 40' motor coach. Our grandson, Ian, named it Gigantor. We call it Tor for short.

We're seeing things you just can't from the air and finding that we've so much to discover on this continent. In the past two years, we've taken three marvelous six-week trips. This time, we're "chasing the sun for as long as it fun". We left on October 5, 2009. We'll see how long we last!

We're searching for great places to stay, sights worth seeing, golf courses worth playing, great restaurants, shopping, farmer's markets. We're on the road in search of the high road.


Monday, February 25, 2008

Attitude is Determined by Latitude

I bought the t-shirt! And it proved to be a necessity! We went from the close to sublime to the nearly ridiculous.

The resort in Port St. Lucie was so lovely, but we were really anxious to hit the islands! Navigated the 200 miles to Marthon in the Keys and picked up a car. This time Enterprise was terrific.

To drive the 7 Mile Bridge has been on my life list forever. It is truly an engineering and aethestic miracle. But the exhileration of reaching our first island destination was dashed abruptly on arrival.

The Sunshine RV Resort and Marina, an Encore property, is not as advertised. Not only were we disappointed in the quality of the site, but mostly because they didn't have a record of the waterfront site I booked over 6 weeks ago. I was told I had reserved the least expensive accomodation! Yeah, like that's going to happen! There were no waterfront sites available, so after much toing and froing, we landed in a spot two rows back and if I crane my neck over the driver's seat, I can see the Gulf.

Too upset to cook...slice the left-over terriyaki steak, saute red and green peppers and onions, arrange over lettuce, top with honey mustard dressing and have a pretty good entree salad.

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