RELAXING IN SANFORD, FL

 We are spending 3 nights in Sanford, Fl on the way to St Augustine. The campground we are staying in is Twelve Oaks RV Resort. It had very nice reviews, but it is not a resort by any means. It is a 55+ community in a very quiet area. I rarely see any of the people that live here either full time or 6 months  of the year. The ones I have seen are very friendly and the campground feels like home and is very shaded by beautiful oak trees.

The day we drove here was beautiful and sunny, at least until we pulled into the driveway of the campground. IT POURED BUCKETS!!!!!!! Since we had a back in site, David got out and unhooked the car in the pouring rain while I went into the office about 20 feet away to pay. By the time I got there, I was soaked to the bone. The lady that checked us in was very nice and said the maintenance man would show us where to park. They were all so nice. It was raining so hard I couldn't even see out of the car windshield to follow to the site and had to roll down the window to see where to drive. The 2 men helping us were soaked to the bone too. We parked in the site and waited for the rain to stop before we hooked up the electric, water and sewer. We thought we would never dry off. 

The stay was very pleasant. The next day we rode over to Mt Dora. We hadn't been there since we lived in Orlando in the 80s and the whole area has changed a lot. New housing developments were everywhere. Even downtown was updated and nothing looked like it used to. There used to be a great yarn shop with tons of yarn. Yarn was literally everywhere, piled high. The owner knew where everything was. All you had to do was tell her what you wanted and she would go right to it and pull it out of the pile. Well, that shop was gone and so was the one they had listed as being there. There were lots of good sounding restaurants there. The town was very picturesque and had tons of little boutiques that sold various items. Too bad I wasn't in the market to shop.

Not sure I understand the reason for THE UNDERPANTS sign.

We came back to Sanford and had a nice lunch at Bahama Breeze Restaurant. The food was very good. Back at the motorhome, we had bought Bentley a harness, so I put it on and took him for a walk in the RV park. He loved it. He head was like on a swivel. He couldn't stop looking all around. He had his harness on and the top down on the stroller when we were riding. But when we stopped and sat outside I let the top down. He was very good and didn't try to get out. He really loved this campground. 

This campground is so relaxing.

People basically live here full time and most have carports or sheds, gardens and personal patios outside.

There were several tiny houses and a couple of double decker tiny houses. Lots of people just lived in their RV.

Bentley would just sit and look out of the bedroom windows to see what he could see.

There is some kind of nature preserve right behind us and there were 3 huge birds (cranes, herons or something wandering around our site. Bentley was amazed.

We have 3 cameras and a temperature monitor set up in the motorhome to make sure we can check up on the kitties while we are away. Once when we checked on them, Finny was in his bed in the bunk and we called him through the microphone. He freaked out looking for where our voice was coming from.

It's not nice to scare kitties. Saturday, we leave for St Augustine.