Our month here in Cedar Key, Florida has come to an end.  Today we will be moving our house over to Orange City, Florida, about 130 miles to the east.  We chose this play because Chris and Cherie of Technomadia were spending part of the winter here.  We have followed their blog for several years, and it was one of several that gave us the inspiration to throw caution to the wind and start this full-time RV lifestyle.  We have never looked back.

We have met a lot of wonderful folks here, many of them were also “blog stalkers” of Chris and Cherie.  Our goal here was to just spend some time relaxing and winding down after 3 months of working at Amazon.  Now we are ready to move on to a “big city”.  This past week we continued having impromptu events.  Tuesday was a Trailer Trash pot luck, in which you made your favorite pot luck dish.

Wednesday it was only in the 40’s, so we had movie night in our camper, and watched RV with Robin Williams, and a 2003 documentary on the Burning Man festival.  We had seen RV before (a very funny movie that every RV’er should see), but the Burning Man documentary was very enjoyable. (thanks Chris for bringing the movies).  It is a festival that takes place in August in the Black Rock desert area in Nevada.  It has a creative, artistic feel to it.

Thursday we headed down the road to the Tiki Bar, for one last visit.

Tiki Bar

hey, hands off!

Tiki Bar gang

And of course, no Tiki Bar is complete without a naked Barbie!

Yesterday our neighbors refrigerator decided to stop working, so they had an impromptu fruit smoothie party, to use up all the fruit in their freezer that was thawing out.

After that, Chris and Cherie played an outdoor movie on the side of their bus.  It was a classic, The Long, Long, Trailer, with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez.  It was very funny, and I think anyone that has ever towed a trailer would love it.

It is time to go and say our “see you laters” (I no longer do good-byes), and head on to a new adventure.  As an introverted person, this has been a challenging month for me, with all the social activities.  I have been spending a lot of time thinking about that, and will probably post my thoughts about that in a future post.

Quote for today: “You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you.  You have to go to them sometimes.”  – Winnie the Pooh

I know it has been awhile since I posted.  There is just something about this laid back atmosphere in Cedar Key that keeps me away from the computer.  It has been another low-key week here, with parades, pottery lessons and fireside chats.

The Cedar Key Sharks had their Homecoming Parade last Thursday.  Since they do not have a football team, their homecoming is in January, during basketball season.  It was a very brief parade, and just when we started walking back towards the campground, the parade had completed the entire downtown loop, and was returning to the school, so we ended up seeing all the “floats” for a second time!

The Sharks!

Congrats!

Boys basketball

Girls BB

The cheerleaders

And no parade would be complete without a tribute to the “Lunch Ladies!!”

The Lunch Ladies

Many of us came to Cedar Key to meet up with Chris and Cherie of Technomadia.  We have had several fireside chats this past week on topics such as work camping jobs, and domicile/residency questions.  Dan and I are doing the traditional work camping jobs.  Others have been able to work remotely with their jobs.  There are so many opportunities out there, it is just a matter of spending the time researching what options work best for you.

Another person in our park, Dean, who is from Monroe, Wisconsin, set up his small pottery wheel and gave impromptu pottery lessons.  I am always amazed by what people bring on the road with them!  Dan decided to take a brief pottery lesson from Dean.  One should never stop trying to learn something new!

Dean is explaining the proper position, elbows in, and how much force you need to apply on the clay.

Once you get the feel of the clay, you insert your finger in the middle, and expand the clay upwards.  This is very challenging.

checking the depth of the clay.

Looking good, elbows in!

After it is finished, Dean slices it in half, to check the depth on the sides.  He said Dan did a good job.

Dan’s parents rent out a condo in New Smyrna Beach for February and March.  They stopped in for a visit on their way.  Makena was happy to see them, and couldn’t decide where to sleep.  She spent the night going between our bed, and the air mattress to sleep with “grandma and grandpa.”

Dan’s parents

And of course, we took some time for our nightly sunset viewing on the dock.  I think this cloud looks like the head of an alligator.

A gator sunset?

My sister sent me a photograph of their indoor/outdoor temperature gauge this morning.  It is showing minus 13 degrees just before 6am today in Wauwatosa, WI.  That is some dangerously cold weather, when you factor in the wind chill of 45 below!!  We hope everyone back home stays safe and warm!!

Yikes!

Just remember, there are only 50 days from today until Spring!

Quote for the day:  “No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips it’s turn.” – Hal Borland