Lazy Lakes RV Resort, Sugarloaf Key, FL: Another lovely, beautiful morning with just some high, thin clouds. A beautiful day to finally go for a bike ride or something, but Mike discovered some water in the storage compartment—turns out from a leak in our shower drain. So, he had to take out a bunch of stuff from the compartment so he could get to the pipe in question. Thought he could fix it himself but he couldn’t get purchase on it with a wrench. So we decided it wouldn’t be such a good idea to go off hither and yon with stuff from the storage compartment spread around outside. The book I’m reading about the Santa Fe Trail is very enjoyable anyway. Speaking of which—one of their favorite breakfasts on the trail was a calf (buffalo) head. They would dig a pit, line the bottom with hot coals, put in the head and cover it with more hot coals, then fill the hole back up, tamp down the dirt, and then build their camp fire on top of that. The next morning they’d uncover the head and have their feast. On what I don’t know. Calf brains? I’ll take my smoothie any day.

Typical freight wagon used on the Santa Fe Trail