Saturday, March 18, 2023

Leu Gardens, Orlando, FL


We had a great two weeks visiting Dave & Mary. We also got in visits with Kitty & Tim and Heather & Tom. Got in a lot of eating out, too!  One of our days out was to Leu Gardens.

Leu Gardens - located in Orlando - is an old winter vacation home (original snowbirds?) & gardens.  Occupied by four families, the last - the Leu family - gifted it to the city of Orlando to make it a botanical gardens and historic location.  We were there in between major bloomings.  We saw a good selection of plants blooming, but there'd be more if we'd made it there a little later in early spring.

Below are several of the pictures that we took while visiting the gardens.  

Thanks for dropping by and checking up on us.  We're fine.  Wheels continue to roll.  We're setting an extra day near Jennings, FL to let a cold front and its associated weather pass before heading up to Birmingham tomorrow (Sunday).  We expect to arrive at Stone Mountain, GA on Wednesday.  David






















Saturday, March 4, 2023

Back on the Road

Have new glasses, will ride bicycle

As you can see Donna finally got a couple of days of bicycle riding in before we left Gulf State Park.  It was getting hot, so time to go.  Of course we headed on down to central Florida (which is hotter!)

We managed to leave Gulf State Park on March 1st as planned - traveling to Tallahassee to visit with Randy & Shirley on Thursday.  We left Friday (March 3rd) to head on down to Mt Dora to visit Dave & Mary.  The trailer is at Southern Palms in Eustis (with all its wheels intact.)  We plan to be here for two weeks before heading up to Birmingham, AL for a few days. 

We've enjoyed visiting Randy & Shirley who took down to Leon Sinks Geological Area for a nice hike in the woods.  We're just starting our visit with Dave & Mary. We've had them chauffeur us all across central Florida today looking for and getting a new computer for Donna. We plan to use Dave & Mary's faster internet to update it and load most of the software we want.  It's all new to us being a Windows 11 machine.  Donna really looking forward to getting started with it, tomorrow.

So that gets you up to date with us.  Thanks for dropping by and checking up on us.  More later, David