PIZZA IN THE PARK
First, important things that don't seem important:
We lived on the NW side of Florida, between Gainesville and the Gulf Coast, for twenty three years. Some say it was an act of God. Spring of 1994 was a very wet and rainy season, as I drove the motor home towing our little Ford Escort from central Illinois toward central Florida. A water soaked tree branch fell on the front top corner of our motor home while camping. We didn't even need to stop that early in the day. However our nearly five year old son, adopted, wanted to see "way down upon a Suwannee River." An RV park was not far off the main highway near the river we'd just crossed.
Orlando was only 150 miles farther south. We had to wait through the weekend for an insurance adjuster. In the meantime I set up getting the front brakes on the old motor home replaced right there in the RV park, thanks to the owner. We had a week to kill and a gas sipping Ford Escort to wander around in.
We'd been headed for the small towns we'd checked out five years earlier, below Orlando. Our two favorite hobby's are old cars and motorcycles. Orlando was too crowded for us but an area with lots of old car activity. Always living in a crowded residential area, we wanted to be more in the open. I wanted a few acres, whatever those were. Someplace where we could park a half dozen old cars under cover and use my riding mower naked. A riding mower I didn't even need in the small city in the mid west.
Each morning for most of that week we headed south checking out those small towns. A lot changed in under five years. Hell, we had adopted our grandson and were retired to Florida in that time. Now we needed a decent home and schools, rather than a small mobile home to come home to with our RV now and then. Another dream was to see the USA in an RV. Life is not a movie script and neither are my stories.
Our circle got smaller until we found our little piece of heaven not ten miles from the RV park near the Suwannee river. Skipping more details, we loved our little five acres in the woods. But we loved Florida's east coast much better for the nite life, wild life, and the many parks to wander around in. That's how we found the walking path and small park we are about to visit in these next stories.
We grew up holding hands, walking topless and nude, along the local rivers, in parks, and around small lakes back in the Midwest. We loved the simple life together and discovered more and better places on and near Florida's east coast. I'm pretty sure I could write a hundred stories, most very similar, or the same, about walks in the park. Hopefully these two will entertain and amuse you as we get kinky in the park.
From where we lived some 35 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, in a straight line east, it was 135 miles to the ocean, more or less. The problem was, the highways didn't go straight east. Still it was around 150 miles of two lane highways. Over the years we were able to leave our son and make the trip often. Each time we discovered better and less used places to camp not more than twenty miles from the ocean. We also discovered little used places to wander through the natural parts of Florida on well made and well maintained walking paths.
We still don't know why the gators and snakes stayed off most trails. They all had GATOR WARNING signs along the trails. Maybe there were PEOPLE WARNING signs in the swamps.
Pizza in the park.