We had to move out of Styx River RV Resort because we stayed our 2 week maximum. And we just headed across Highway 10 to Wilderness RV, another RPI park where we can stay for $8 per night, even had wireless internet, SCORE! The park itself is… well…not aesthetically pleasing, but like I said it worked out budget-wise and functionality-wise. Sharon and Rachel continue to do bridge-building with their “new” family. It has been tough at times, and joyful at times, but overall very exciting and positive. I cannot wait to meet them, as Sharon has already brought into my life some wonderful people and look forward to having more. You can never have too many friends and family! On a note, we have Hurricane Katrina families on both sides of us in FEMA trailers, which we can spot right away because of various similar characteristics. It is sad when you get accustomed to seeing the FEMA trailers. Sometimes arranged as small communities with over 100 trailers lined up in a large parking lot. They try to make it livable, they add playground equipment and such, but I hear it is not a great place to be, basically in limbo between places to call home. It is hard to stop the tailspin when you become homeless overnight. Good luck to all that know that feeling. It is a horribly humbling feeling. We started trying to promote our site and find other young RVers by subscribing to various dogpark, brewpub and RV forums. The brewpub forums seemed to be the most friendly, maybe people who drink beer make nicer people :) And in the RV forums it became hostile at times and really cool at other times. We did find a few couples like us, full timing, living on the road. One thread at a particular RV forum proved to be quite comical as we apparently yanked a few older RVers chains. It went a little like this (click here to read transcript and comments) Art night at Cocodries went well, we made enough money to at least enjoy the weekend. Sold a Signature Series Image of the Dolphin jumping, No.3 in the series. Well we had to go photograph some festivals and such in Santa Rosa County. And being stubborn when i went to a gas station the gas was 2.39 @ gallon and right now we can get it for 1.98 @ gallon in other places. But since I needed gas, I had no choice, but I only put in $5 worth and would get more when I saw a better price, or at least that was my intention. Time went by, we drove place to place taking shots, and then when we were finished headed to a friends to have dinner with them. As we were just about to crest over the bridge to Ft Walton, the Jeep started to sputter and stalled out, out of gas that IS! So we spotted a gas station at the bottom of the bridge. We picked up momentum on our way down, if we do not have to stop we may be able to make it all the way to the pump. But we had to turn right and there was a lot of traffic. Luck was on our side as i braked without power brakes and steered through obstacles and other drivers, coming to a slow stop right next to the pump. Just like I planned it, I meant to do that. I have done that before but this was the first time with another person in the car with me. We would like to give special thanks to Alice and Wayne who treated us to dinner at Bitburger, a great German restaurant. We got to see and enjoy company with Frank his son Scott, Wayne, Alice their son Keith and girlfriend Kristina, Greg and Song. We had really fun time. We continued to stay the next day for breakfast; waffles, eggs and bacon. And then for dinner; quesadillas and burritos. They finally “kicked” us out around 6:00. Thanks again for all the hospitality! We also saw photographed two more shoes for the diaries. One was gym shoe in the middle of highway 98 with a pornographic DVD lying next to it “Big, Natural and Bound 2”. The other shoe was actually a large rain boot torn in half from wear and tear. For the fun of it we weighed Jack who is now officially “jacknormous” at 36 lbs! Maybe we need to cut back his food a bit :)
