Tue. 8/28/07 ~ The Nightmare in Tampa

I had hoped we could take the car and go down to the beach and board walk in Panama City Beach but Bill wanted to head on so we closed up the motor home, hooked up the car and headed out about 8:30 AM. We traveled on US 231N to get back on the 10E and drove for miles and miles! We stopped for lunch at Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee and then I took over driving. We continued on the 10E and then picked up Interstate 75-S. We planned to stay at a nice campground in Tampa and drove there only to find the roads were closed and we couldn’t get there. Next we tried another campground only to find out it was a private golf membership club. A third one had no answer at the phone so rather than drive there we decided we would stay at Wal-Mart. We pulled into Wal-Mart and before we could get parked a young man came up asking for money. Bill gave him a dollar and we parked long enough to eat a very quick bite and move on. After all the trouble trying to stay in the Tampa area we decided to just move on southward. We FINALLY ended up pulling into a rest stop on the 19-S near Bradenton, FL for the night. The one positive aspect of today was we found out that using the inverter and cooking dinner in the crock-pot as we traveled works out great.