Day 18 - travel from Destin to Jacksonville

It's July 2nd and we spent the day traveling from Destin to Jacksonville.  Word of the day was Panhandle because we pretty much saw all of it on Hwy 10.  The shot below with all of the greenery is pretty much what we looked at all day.  Very beautiful but not much in the way of changing landscape or points of interest.  We hit a few heavy rain areas, and man can it rain here... wow.  Makes Oregon seem tame, seriously.  We could hardly see the cars in front of us.

We stopped near Tallahassee for lunch (no idea if I spelled that right... :)) and I took a picture of the rig.  Jim is twitching because the trailer has not been washed since we left Oregon.  Good thing for the torrential rain we drove through!  We crossed the 4,000 mile mark today.... all of it driven by Jim.  Hard to believe we traveled that far in 18 days!

We got to the campground in the early afternoon, except we lost an hour because we are on east coast time now... lol!  This is a beautiful place, gorgeous lake, nice rigs, cafe and rec room, etc... but we think the people here are regulars and we crashed their party.  Everyone is driving around in golf carts and they are very well settled in as far as their camps are concerned.  Our spot backs right up to the lake, as you can see below in the picture of the boys.  Unfortunately Faith cannot swim in it... WTH?  In any case, we took a walk around the campground, which is huge, and then had dinner at the cafe.  We interrupted a bingo game... apparently bingo is big here.

One fun note... we were sitting on the patio waiting for our food when the boys noticed turtles in the water... they swam up as soon as we sat down... I had no idea turtles could beg:)  We've never seen so many turtles in one place.  The cafe puts stale bread aside so the kids and I had a ball feeding them.  That was the highlight of our day:)