2012 RV Trip

We left today, Tuesday June 12th.  Plans were to leave about 9 a.m.  Well, we pulled out of the driveway of the house a little after 11 a.m.  Kept finding more stuff to do before we could turn the key on the coach.

Linda with Muffin & Tim holding Snoopers ready to leave

We took the above picture of us and the bus on our driveway the day before, Monday, June 11th.  Our old, elusive cat, Snoopers, is a pain in the _ _ _ to catch and put in the bus especially the morning we try to leave.  So, when Tim was lucky enough to catch her Monday early evening, we decided to take this picture and throw her on the bus to spend the night before we left.  It worked!

Driving through Tampa today was a breeze.  Sometimes it can be a headache.  You never know.  We got to within 25 miles of Jacksonville and saw a very dark storm front ahead.  We pulled over and got a quick bite to eat hoping the worst would pass.  It did.  We drove in light rain until reaching our campsite at Pecan Park RV Resort in Jacksonville.  Tim stayed here from January 16 to March 14 during his treatment for prostate cancer at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Center.  Seemed like home away from home.

Linda & Tim at Pecan Park RV Resort

Fortunately, the rain ended and the sun came out.  We decided to take a walk around the RV park after the 4 plus hour drive.  The RV park wasn't nearly as busy as when time was there during the winter.  A coach pulled in next to us after we got parked.  We found out they bought in 1999 a new Country Coach Prevost bus conversion from Lazy Days RV.  They said our coach looked similar to their coach except for the paint job.  They sold their bus a year after they bought it and later bought another coach.

After our walk we drove to the old Riverside neighborhood to eat pizza at a local joint.

Carmines Pie House

Tim had eaten at Carmines a couple of times during his treatment.  They were very busy for a Tuesday night, but we got seated at the bar and ordered.  We enjoyed the pizza and had some left over for another day.

Tomorrow we'll attend the weekly lunch at the Proton Therapy Institute, so Tim can say hello to some of the staff and therapists who treated him.  In the afternoon, we'll head to Surrency, GA to visit a couple we became friends with during Tim's treatment.