A Do-Nothing Day

Smitty is demonstrating our day yesterday. It was a major slug fest. He and Sadie were exhausted after a night of running back and forth through the trailer and keeping everyone else awake.

However, I did get off to a good start on the ninth of the Wine Country blocks.

When we finally got ourselves in gear, we headed off to the post office in White Springs to pick up a couple of flat-rate boxes. There were some gifty things I wanted to get shipped off, and as long as I was at it, I shipped another box of fabric home. Have to make room for more, don't I? We'd actually stopped off at the post office the day before, but found it closed for lunch. You know you're in a small town when even the post office has office hours.

So after we had our boxes, we decided to check out this state park we'd seen on the map. 

That turned out to be a bust of our own making. For one thing, we drove down a mud road for several miles before we arrived at the park. Now the truck is thoroughly caked in mud. Along the way, we saw a red-shouldered hawk, and that was worth something. I tried to take his picture, but he flew off screeching for all he was worth. I swear birds don't like having their pictures taken. When we arrived at the park, it was going to cost us $4 to park...which is a measly sum, but sometimes we're just cheap. The only thing we were going to do if we paid the day use fee was walk over to the edge of the river, look over, and see the limestone cliffs. Actually, I think the day use fee was just an excuse. I think that actually, we were just too danged lazy to get out of the truck.

From there, we headed back to the campsite. We briefly discussed going into town and doing some laundry..."briefly" being the most important word in that sentence. Also, we stopped off at the craft square to see if the potter or the jewelry maker were open. They were not. Oh well. We were too lazy to visit with them anyway.

When we got back to the campsite, we spent some time studying the map. We're pretty well set with a list of destinations to get us through Texas now. There are some new ones and some old ones. We'll make a stop in Mississippi and one in New Orleans, and then we'll head for Texas where I'll see my cousin, possibly a friend from high school, and a couple of state parks we've not visited before. We may also visit the Texas Quilt Museum. Having that planned out felt like something of an accomplishment.

Today we'll be heading off for Falling Water State Park, still here in Florida. We'll stay two nights there before heading off to the next stop. It's a bit of a drive today, and so I'd better get myself moving.