W. P. Franklin Corps of Engineers Campground, N. Ft. Myers, FL, to Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf, FL: A beautiful morning. We got going early and were out of there by 8:00. I drove first. We drove through Alva and then picked up Rt. 80 east and then 29 south through the beautiful Big Cypress Preserve and got on I75 heading east. Then 27 south to the Florida Turnpike. Mike saw on the map that there was a full service area on the turnpike so we planned on stopping there for fuel and something to eat. We saw signs for it and nothing about it being a left exit so I stayed in the right-hand lane. One half mile before the exit for the service area the sign said to exit left so I had to hustle over two lanes of traffic to make the exit. They could have had the left-exit indicator earlier. That was the first CF. Then I pulled in and followed the signs for diesel and ended up in the wrong lane and had to back all the way up in order to get to the fuel pump. We finally fueled up and then were told the restaurant was in that big building over there. So we parked the truck and the RV and walked over to that big building and it was all closed up. No restaurant—it had been closed for 5 years. So we got a couple of pre-packaged sandwiches at the food mart where we bought gas and then were on our way. Pulled into Lazy Lakes around 2:30. There were no empty sites around us so we had to turn around by the club house and then backed all the way over to the other side of the lake in order to get in. We finally made it and got set up. Then we drove to Bahama Mama’s for a much needed drink and something to eat. Back home and Floyd and Terry stopped by to say hello. Was still 81 when we finished dinner.

Lazy Lakes

Moon rise over Lazy Lakes