RV Journey of John and Terri

Wow, what a great weekend. We camped at Myakka State Park this past weekend and had a great trip. Let me start from the beginning. I took off both Friday and Monday, unfortunately Terri had to work both of those days but Joined Cinnamon and I after work on Friday )more on that later). I arrived on Friday just after noon. I found my spot, which was a little tight and close to our neighbors, but I made due. I met our neighbors, Ed and his wife Susan and Ed helped me get backed in. We chatted for a couple of minutes and then they let me get set up. After I got most everything set up I called Terri and let her know the exit and site number for when she came down after work. So with the afternoon to our selves Cinnamon and I went for a walk and then came back and we chatted with Ed a little more. Ed and Susan are from Newnan, Georgia and have been at the cap ground for about 3 weeks now. This was their 4th year of coming to Myakka and they really like this campground. We had a good convers...

So before we get to Saturday, day 2, there was a little more drama Friday night. We had just finished eating dinner when Jeff and Becky called. Seems that they had a little mishap. On their way up to spend the weekend with us they had a little accident. Seems that the kayak rack on top of their car decided it didn't want to stay attached. The wind got up under the kayaks and pulled the rack and kayaks right off the car and dropped them on I-275 doing 70 mph. As bad as that sounds, the Lord was looking over them. The kayaks stayed attached to the rack and slid to the median. There was no one hurt and no accident was caused. Then a very kind gentleman put their kayaks in his truck and took them to the next exit. So they called us because the rack was shot. Roy and I rode down to the exit and put them on his truck and we continued back to the campground. Needless to say Jeff and Becky were very lucky and thing could have been a lot worse. (Thanks to the Lord for their safety ). So day...

Happy Birthday Mat !!!! 18 and he wants to go camping for his birthday. That is just so awesome !! We spent the weekend at Silver River state park camping with our son, his girlfriend, Lynnsey and her parents Jan and Roy and a couple from our life group . What an great weekend. We arrived Thursday night and were greeted by Lynnsey's parents. Then later that evening Mat and Lynnsey joined us. Mat set his tent up because he wanted to rough it and sleep in a tent. More power to him !! Friday we went to Juniper Springs to kayak. It was an overcast day and looked like we might get a little rain. The trip started out great and the river was as beautiful as I remembered. As we got down the river a ways we did start to get some rain but it didn't seem to bother any ones spirits. I did begin to notice that the river current was much faster then I remembered and we even hit a spot where Mat started to say he heard rapids. I told him there was no rapids on this river, but ...