We say goodbye to our Safari Trek

Like a owning a boat the two best days of RV ownership are supposed to be the day you take possession and the day you sell.


But we were both very sad to see our faithfull Trek depart with new owners today. It carried us from Texas down the Baja in Mexico and all the way up to Alaska as well as many National Parks. So many great days on the road, fantastic destinations and comfortable nights in places as diverse as Walmart car parks, everyday camp grounds and wilderness boondocking sites.






We hope Gary and Melissa get as much fun Trekking as we did.









Now the next task is to make up our mind about a boat.

Old Town Kissimmee on cruise night again

We met Carol's brother Dave in Old Town Kissimmee last Saturday evening for the ritual so common in many US towns of the car cruise.





Dave would only stand in front of a Ford.











I picked a pristine Vette








But really liked this outragous dragster car from the 60s complete with wheely bars and giant ram pipes on top of the 671 blower. Apparently it is street legal!






This one was super clean though.

POPPIN SOME CAPS IN ORLANDO

We got a chance to do what every boy and lots of girls have wanted since Clint uttered those immortal words "...and this is a 44 magnum, the most powerful hand gun in the world"

Yup we shot the dirty Harry gun. But only after Dave, Carols brother had checked us out on some lighter stuff and made sure we were safe and knew what to expect.

Starting with a 357 revolver and lighter 38 bullets we got to blow away the blue man while practicing our range safety and reloading procedures.















We had a variety of politically incorrect targets to choose from as well as the common bulls eye.

I enjoyed blowing away Burt with my Glock 45 and got reasonable groupings albeit at relatively short range most of the time. I did try a magazine at the full length of the range but found that my eye sight is now so restricted that I do not have the depth of field to "see" the sights and the target clearly at the same time.

Dave was a good teacher and we quickly got good groupings and felt safe handling the revolvers and the automatics.



Dave had the big gun and we knew when he was blasting away because the noise and shockwave was much greater. I expected the difference in recoil when it was my turn but the violence of the kick was still a shocker and after only two shots I could feel the growing ache in my wrists.

Carol actually moved backwards when the recoil hit but her injury came when a hot shell casing from her automatic lodged in her cleavage. Nasty!

'CRUZIN' in Old Town In Kissimmee

We moved up to Orlando to see Carol's brother Dave who was over for a week.

For something to do on the first night before we hooked up with Dave we looked in on Kissimmee "Old Town". It was Old Time Car Cruising night. Everything from 30s Willys 5 windows to a Plymouth Superbird [ a replica I think ] to a really Cherry 50 Ford.






But some one just could not resist the temptation to go tacky!

Condos, a lighthouse some injured turtles and a boat

We had a look at some of the bargains in the housing market here in Florida. The realtor tried hard with a 50% discount but the "marina" turned out to be some semi derelict boats


and the possibility of some mooring balls. The condos were pretty inside with marble floors but the neighborhood is not good.





Still someone paid 3/4 mill not so long ago for it.













We drove down to Jupiter and had a look at the lighthouse.





















Nowadays it still lights the way home for the rare boater without GPS












But it mostly signposts the most costly real estate in Florida, Celine Dion lives here and Tiger Woods is building.








The Turtle hospital seems well resourced and full of volunteers some cleaning tanks and others scrubbing algae off hatchlings using toothbrushes.

However all the adults seemed to do is try to climb over the tank lip and escape to the sea.















The turtle place also had these strange fish called look downs in quite small tanks, we wondered why?






We have a boat under offer at last. An elegant old lady that someone poured lots of time effort and money into.





If she surveys well she will be our home in the future,