Eagle's Landing Campground, Holt, FL

We are back in Florida! Since Fort Huachuca we have had a wonderful time visiting with John and Jane in Harper, TX. John is the one that got us messed up with jeeps, but we love him anyway. We had such a good time with them we didn’t take any pictures, or take time to do the blog.

We parted company Thursday morning in the misty weather and started our way home. There was a good bit of rain in the morning, but cleared by early afternoon. You could tell that a holiday weekend was coming up. The drivers were nuts, and there were plenty of them. San Antonio and Houston went by without much drama, but that ended at Beaumont. Multiple highways and local commuters converge on a bridge to continue east and, as luck would have it, there was an accident just before that bridge. It took just over TWO hours to cross through Beaumont. That is about three miles! We were two hours late getting to our campsite in Iowa, LA, but we called and told them we were still coming and not to give our site away. This is the campground that I wrote about last year that is a little hard to find the first time since it is behind a Shell station and a McDonalds. Cypress Bend is the name of it, and it is actually a nice little stopover point with paved roads and sites, and plenty of grass. We were beat, so dinner was from McDonalds. I wish I could say it was nice, but it did fill us up.

The drive to Holt, FL today was in nice, clear and warm weather. We continued to fight holiday traffic, and the map apps were showing another major backup getting through the tunnel in Mobile. Luckily when we arrived we found the problem had cleared up a good bit, but there was still a backup. Still, it was nothing like last night and we made it to our present campsite right at five o’clock, just in time for cocktails!

The Eagles Landing Campground is a wonderful find. The large sites are well spread out and accessed from paved roads. There is considerable grass in each site. The actual “pad” where the RV is parked is sand, but not a problem since there is a lot of grass around the RV. This is going on our list of favorite overnight stops heading west.

Tomorrow we head to the big bend area of Florida near Apalachicola. We were fortunate to snag a campsite in that area with short notice on a holiday weekend. It is to meet up with friends Jim and Phyllis as they continue their spring sailing cruise. You may recall that we did the same thing this time last year when we met them in Gulfport, MS. These are wonderful people we met while cruising the Bahamas in our own sailboat, Totem.