Stop #1: Old Town, Florida
- Aaron Rose
- Jan 25, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 9, 2022
From Palm Harbor, Florida to Old Town, Florida
Travel Dates: 6/29/20 to 7/1/20
Drive Time: 3 hours 57 minutes covering 131 miles (210 km)
My first ever official travel day. I left my parents house in Palm Harbor, Florida and made the drive up to Old Town, Florida to spend the first two nights at my friend’s house. I hadn’t seen them in over 6 months and it was going to be really good to catch up on life. The drive went well and while Isabelle seemed interested at first in joining me in the cab of the RV, she quickly lost interest and ended up under the sofa, claiming it as her safe zone whenever we drove somewhere.
Arriving at my friends house out in the country, I picked what looked to be a level spot on the lawn under some shade from the trees and parked the RV. I would be relying on my house batteries for the next two days and had no idea what to expect since I’d been running off shore power at my parent house since I picked up the RV and was hoping for the best. I got everything set up and put out the awning to add some extra shade & then spent the rest of the day enjoying time with my friends.
The highlight that evening was sitting around the fire pit and staring into the dancing flames under the star lit night sky. While it was still hot outside, having the fire was still really nice and brought back memories of camping during the summers growing up.
I awoke the next morning to beeping and freaked out, as I had no idea what was going on! I quickly figured out it was the battery warning letting me know that the house batteries had run down to their warning limit and I had to turn on the main engine to get it charged back up to make it through till later in the day. I tried using the generator at first, but didn’t see it working and knew that running the cab would work so switched over to that.
Once I got the batteries up to a safe level to make it till at least the afternoon, I was then taken out onto a section of the farm and driven around to see the property and the copious amount of deer, elk, and other animals running around the property. No hunting was allowed here, so I was able to get a lot of great photos while getting up fairly close to many of the animals.
It was a really cool experience and I mentioned to them that if they wanted to make some extra money, I believed nature & wildlife photographers, like myself, would happily pay to be taken out for the opportunity to take photos.
