Wow, it has been almost half a year since we went full time! We wanted to give some thought to how things have been working out so far.

First the big question, yes, we love this life style and have settled in much easier than we thought we would. We really don’t miss the house much and are happy with the limited room we have in our trailer. Living in it has been pretty comfortable. We have been able to cook most of our meals and don’t mind the small kitchen and limited storage too much.

We also still watch movies and tv fairly often in the evenings. A few months ago we decided it would be worth the expense to purchase better chairs and bought these Lay-Z-Boy recliners. They are so much more comfortable to read or watch movies in than our old ones, and they look nicer! We also had one of Mike’s pictures printed on canvas and hung it in the space over the window. It’s nice to have a little more color in the trailer.

We have enjoyed our time in Welaka, but will be happy to move to a more urban area for a while. There are a couple of restaurants close by and we will definitely miss the Boathouse Bar & Grill, but we hope to have a few more eating options at our next place. It will also be nice to have a closer grocery store!

Speaking of our next gig, it is pretty much the opposite of where we are now. Our current campground is very small; our next one is huge. It has 1400 sites and a lot of recreational buildings. This one is family owned and operated and the next one is part of Encore Resorts. Here we work 20 hours combined and our next jobs will be full-time. It will be interesting to see how different it feels and find out what we prefer. One thing’s for sure, we will miss the people we’ve come to know here!

Some thoughts on northern Florida, there are a LOT of trees and very long, VERY straight roads. We were so used to things being close in Baltimore, but here it is a drive (usually a long one) to get just about anywhere. Of course, Florida is also very hot in the summer! We knew we were doing the opposite of what most full-time RVers do by coming here in the summer, but we wanted to establish our domicile here before continuing on with full-timing. Hopefully in the future we will be able follow the fair weather a little better. Oh, and one more thing about summers in Florida – BUGS. We were welcomed here by the love bugs. They don’t bite, but there are so many of them that when you drive anywhere you wind up with several dozen (hundred?) of them smashed on the windshield, and our F350 has a really big windshield! Fortunately, they don’t last long, but they are followed by yellow flies that do bite. We both still have marks on our legs from being bitten by them several months ago. Add to that the mosquitoes and various other biting and stinging bugs and it gets pretty icky and itchy!

All in all, it’s been a great experience. We feel lucky to have had such a great first-time workamping gig here and we are looking forward to our next one!