Regina on the other hand has been partaking of the many activities here at Royal Coachmen Encore RV Resort (RCR): bingo three nights a week (with a few games won here and there), Mexican dominoes, bocce, table tennis, and crafts. Most exciting is that Regina has learned to crochet and is enjoying an active Red Hat group. She even found time to enter the Charlotte County Senior Olympics and win a few medals in table tennis and track and field events (shot, discus, 100 meter, and 200 meter). Regina also volunteers in the library and post office here in the park; as the season winds down she’s helping out at the Easter Egg Hunt, too. Every now and then she gets a call from Saint Stephen’s School and subs at the middle school which seems just like home.

This location in Nokomis, FL is very handy: we’ve been up to Tampa to visit with niece Jennifer and taken a few trips over to Palm Beach to visit moms and siblings. Regina drove to Tampa to meet Patty when she was grading the state Spanish tests. Paul even took a Friday off work so we could drive to Daytona Beach for The Good Sam Club RV Rally: we stayed at a motel and drove to the Speedway for three days of seminars, exhibits, and shows. Best of all was meeting up with Ginny and Ron (friends from our first years on the road) and the Marshalls and Nobles, two couples we met here at RCR and plan to share many more rallies.

We have two more months here in Nokomis then we’ll spend a week in Palm Beach, a week in Tallahassee, and then head to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska for the summer. We’re sad that with Paul working and staying here so late into the year that we have missed several important weddings and special events in other parts of the US; we are mobile but don’t get moving very easily.

Hope you are well and happy. We hope to see you soon.