Sunday, January 24, 2016

We moved to a small, but nice park named Ocala North.  It was 130.0 miles (76,326.7 miles total), so it was another easy drive.  We were on our way back to the house where there was a lot of work waiting for us.  Getting the house ready to sell after nearly 23 years meant sorting through a lot of clutter, cleaning and painting, so we were not in a real hurry to get there.  We thought we could make a couple of stops and see a few interesting sites on the way back home.

Our campground choice allowed us to visit Ocala where there were a couple of museums and an old sinkhole we could investigate. The sinkhole had lots of stairs that would allow us to climb down inside. I was a little skeptical about going into a sinkhole - I mean, how can you be sure it's not going to sink any further?

The weather did not cooperate with our sightseeing plans.  There was a lot of rain for the first three days of our stay.  We added another day to wait out the rain and finally visited Ocala.  The two museums were on the Florida State University campus. Unfortunately, I did not like the parking situation.  Like most campus layouts there were color coded parking restrictions everywhere with the threat of towing and fines.  I can't say they made us feel welcome.  After maybe 15 minutes of circling to find the museum buildings, we decided to just have lunch and keep an eye on the weather.

There was a Golden Corral nearby and we were in a glutinous mood. That hardly ever happens! About mid-way through our meal, there was a power outage that lasted 20 minutes or more.  There was no way to get ice cream with no electricity so we nibbled on a few more choice entrees while we did another crossword puzzle at our tablet.  When the power returned, we decided we were too stuffed to be hiking to the bottom of a big hole in the ground and there was still the threat of more rain, so we just headed home.