Long Overdue Camping Trip to St. Joe Peninsula State Park

February was filled with the excitement of making our camping reservations for the summer.  We had plans to go to East Bank Corps of Engineers Park, Stephen Foster State Park in Georgia aw well as the Stephen Foster State Park in Florida.  Naturally we had to cancel all of these when I became too sick to do much of anything; however, we left our reservation at St. Joe Peninsula State Park on the books hoping that I would be able to go by then.  And I was!

We were a little disappointed with the campground there.  We had stayed there before in the winter and had written down several camp sites that we thought were preferable; however, the one we were in had palmettos and scrub oaks so close to the front door of the camper that we could not even put out our awning and enjoy sitting outside.  The Florida Parks we have stayed in seem to be going with the “natural” look which basically means they hack out a place for you to park and leave everything else.  That gives you no view, plenty of mosquitoes, and no possibility of a breeze.  On the other hand, the parks in Alabama and Georgia appear to be better “groomed” and spaced out better.  Granted we are just now in our second year of camping, but so far this is what I’ve observed. 

Our first night I fixed tacos for supper.  Since I’ve been sick I cannot get enough tacos.  This is probably the sixth time we’ve had them since June.  I wonder what that craving means?

 We walked down to the beach when we had everything set up at our campsite and the waves rolling in were huge and the red flags were flying.  It was not looking like we were going to get to enjoy the beach very much.  Saturday dawned and we packed up our beach gear and headed down to the beach hoping that it would be better and it was.  The seas had calmed enough that we could swim and cool off and we set up our umbrella and just enjoyed relaxing and swimming every now and then.

Later that day we enjoyed a game of Scrabble in the cool of the trailer and grilled pork chops for supper. That night we watched an old movie that Bubba’s brother, Joe, had recommended.  It was  "The Long, Long Trailer" staring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez.  It was very funny and reminded us of some of the tight spots we were in when we first started camping.

We came home on Sunday so I could rest up on Monday before returning to work on Tuesday.  It is good to be camping again and I’m looking forward to more trips as the weather cools off.