W. P. Franklin Corps of Engineers Campground, Ft. Myers, FL:  Chilly this morning, but bright and sunny.  The river was so calm it looked like glass.  The cattle in the pasture across from us were happily grazing away, and the eagle was on his lofty perch surveying it all.  Beautiful morning!  But it wasn’t to last.  The clouds rolled in, the wind picked up, and it definitely chilled down.  We meet some interesting people when we’re out doing this.  The guy in the motor home next to us sets up his rowing machine and rows for an hour every morning.  Needless to day, he’s in great shape.  The couple on the other side of us are from Maine.  They fly down here several times a year, pick up their car and camper in a storage place in Tampa and spend about 6 weeks in Florida.  They do this several times a year.  He works from home, so I guess anywhere he has an Internet connection he can conduct business.  His wife no longer works.  And, they’re pretty young.  Then we got talking to a woman walking her cute little Pomeranian.  She’s originally from Switzerland, met her husband at Yale (she has a nursing degree from Yale) who ended up a speech writer for several presidents—from Reagan on down to Bush.  They lived in St. Thomas for a while and have several homes. Left here around 2:30 to have dinner with Ron and Jan.  Ron grilled some steaks and Jan made a potato salad, followed by strawberry shortcake for dessert.  Very nice!  Drove back and stopped to fuel up.  Tomorrow morning we leave for the Keys.  Low 70s today.  

See the eagle way up there on his perch?

River was like glass this morning.

Another view of that beautiful ranch across the river from us.