Weather causes big schedule change

I decided to stay home until Thanksgiving so I could visit with my son Jeff & Marcie's big family. He has 8 kids and 3 grandkids. All but his son Jett were at the party, here are some pictures I took.

My travel plans were to do some biking in SC and GA on the way down to FL.

The weather forecast called for cold and rain in the south for the next 4 days. So I decided to leave on Saturday morning and head directly to FL.

I am travelling with Steve Ingles and Anne Kmieck. Steve and I switch off driving while Anne follows in their truck camper.

We stopped overnight in Wytheville, VA at a Walmart and awoke to a warning of an ice storm. While I was carefully driving south on I-77 we saw a huge accident northbound where one person was killed and northboud traffic was backed up for 20 miles.

When Steve was driving I was not paying attention, so we passed where we had planned to camp, so we kept going almost to FL.

Early Monday morning we got to our destination, Ocean Pond Campground in Osceola NF.  Temperature 75^oF.

It took me 3 hours to check in. They now take reservations for some sites but now everyone must use a phone app, pay a extra fee and go through a complicated process and prove you are actually at the campground by using a QR code at any non-reservable site. They don't take cash or check, now you must pay with a credit card.

After we got setup we took a bike ride to Olustee Civil War Battlefield, the trails were very dry and sandy and made the 12 mile ride very difficult.

Today I spent the day making reservations at Stephen Foster park, Silver Springs and Juniper Springs, This is our new schedule: Revised Plan

While I was doing that and writing this Blog update Anne & Steve took another bike ride and found out that the rain had packed the sand on the roads so it was much easier.