We are staying at a beautiful RV park called Sun Outdoors. It has very nice sites, an amazing heated pool, some nature trails, fishing pond, and enough area to go for long walks or bike rides. Close by is a dollar store which we occasionally visit for the odd need. Every Friday night a food truck comes on site and we learned the line-ups get long. We heard about these food trucks from our neighbours Karen and John (from Baltimore) who we met at the pool. They are coaching us to show up early to make sure we get served. More on this later.
One of the important items we need addressed while here are the stairs. We fortunately already had a mobile repair man coming to look at our furnace. He spent about 3 hours with us and serviced the furnace and fixed the stairs. $700USD later we are feeling great.
Given we are within Uber distance to the historic town of St Augustine, we plan a day with LOTS of walking and history.
The Florida Cracker culture: the very foundation on which frontier Florida was settled. In the early 1700s unauthorized immigrants from the Carolinas were a problem for colonial Florida. Cracker in 16th century England meant a braggart or a fast talker in America. The names Cracker and Criminal were often interchanged. The Alcazar Hotel was opened in 1888 and had the largest indoor pool in the U.S.A. The hotel closed in 1932 due to the Depression and re-opened in 1973 as the City Hall and Lightner Museum. The first Spanish muster site in Florida: the Florida National guard honours Sept 16, 1565 as the 1st muster of Florida’s Militia and therefore the birthplace of the militia in what was to become the U.S. The Fountain of Youth commemorates the 1513 arrival of Ponce de Leon and the legend of the Fountain of Youth. People have lived on this site for over 3,000 years.
