Damn Government Shutdown Closes Campground

We made reservations to stay at this US Army Corps of Engineers Campground for 14 days. Our wonderful “Representatives?” didn’t care who suffered by shutting down the government for 3 days. Luckily we got to stay through the weekend but on Monday morning they threw everyone out. Even though the place is run by volunteers who were told they had to leave also.

I’ll bet no one ever saw this campground empty. We were the last to leave on Monday at noon and spent the day shopping in Ft Myers and spent the night at a quiet Lowe's parking lot with free Wi-Fi. We drove back in the morning and we were the first RV back. We will stay here 2 more nights as planned.

This past week we took a few more bike rides on our nice tandem bike and we paddled 6 miles up and back on Telegraph Creek. There were a lot of trees down between the two bridges but north of  that it wasn’t as bad until we came to a tree totally across the river. Peggy did not like all the maneuvering that we had to do, but we saw lots of birds and turtles.

For the first time in weeks we have a little rain this morning, so maybe we will spend the day watching all the campers return.
On Thursday morning we will break camp and head to Flying A Wilderness Campground in Myakka State Forest west of Port Charlotte. It has no facilities but it looks like it may be a good place to hike & bike. We made reservations for 3 days. Pat & Tom Foos plan on stopping by on their way from Tampa Airport to Naples. Hopefully it will work out, we love visitors.