August 14, 2019—On the go again, this time at Grayton Beach
State Park in Santa Rosa, Fla., which is in the Florida Panhandle, about midway
between Panama City and Pensacola. We arrived yesterday afternoon, after about
a five-hour drive from Jacksonville.
The drive was uneventful—until we decided to get fuel in
Marianna. We pulled into a Murphy Express Station by a Walmart. The station was
very busy; we had to wait a bit to get to a diesel pump. After filling up with
diesel, Jim pulled out and patiently waited to exit the station. Finally, we
turned out of the station and headed for a Hardee’s, about three miles up the
road, for lunch.
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| Below the reflection of Jim's legs (he was taking a photo of the damage), you can see the small scratch our camper made on the car. Ouch! |
As we pulled into the parking lot of the Hardee’s, a car pulled up next to us, and the driver (nicely) confronted Jim: Jim had inadvertently sideswiped his car when he had pulled out of the gas station. Our truck and camper are big and heavy; we never felt the scratch occur. We know what happened, however. The long “legs” of the camper stick out a bit from the body of the camper and the truck. Apparently, the truck pulled up too close to the much smaller car and the bottom of the leg scraped the car.
Stuff happens. This was one of those instances. Jim reported
the accident to the insurance company, and right now, we are waiting for an
adjuster to come out and look at our truck and camper, despite the fact that
there was no damage to our vehicle(s), a fact we repeatedly assured the
adjuster.
Waiting for the adjuster is making us postpone our first day
of fishing—not a real tragedy, because the heat index is 106 degrees. We hope
that when we are by the water’s edge it will be cooler.
This is a nice state park, which has access to the Gulf as
well as a briny lake. We are also near a bay. The park is outstanding for two
things: First, we have internet! Yea! The last couple of state-park stays have
found us “stranded” without access to the outside world, except for nightly
news on a network station. Second, we have sewers! Being able to hook up sewer
lines is really nice. We took a shower in our camper for the first time.
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| Our campsite at Grayton Beach State Park--complete with electric, water, and sewers! It is actually too hot to use our tented canopy but we put it up anyway. |
On the downside, however, the park has no fishing facilities—no piers, no cleaning stations—a disappointment. We can fish from the shore of the Gulf as well as the lake, but it would be nice if there were a pier. Also, the park is far enough away from both Panama City and Pensacola that we are unable to get any network or PBS television stations, only a couple of local stations. We aren’t big TV watchers, so that is not a big deal, but it would be nice to watch the news. (We keep forgetting to contact DirecTV to ask if it is possible to take our satellite box with us and use it in the camper. Our camper actually has a satellite dish built into it!)
Enough for now. Wish us luck when we fish. I hope the fish
aren’t as lethargic as we feel in the heat.
Until later,
Your Reluctant RoVer,
Linda
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