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The Florida Keys, Dry Tortugas National Park, & Everglades National Park
For the last half of January, our home base was Larry and Penny Thompson Memorial Park in Homestead. For $500/month with full hookups, you can just live at this Miami-Dade County Park for the entire winter season, for which there is a 5+ year waitlist. Usually, there is a 14-day stay limit at public parks so this is odd. Also, parks this affordable are usually not very nice, but this one was very nice. Most of the people there were from Quebec. We only got in on a last-minute cancellation after realizing our planned dry camping spot inside Everglades NP was a terrible idea due to the need for A/C.…
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Fort Lauderdale, Miami, & Biscayne National Park
For the past two winters, we’ve explored the desert southwest. We love the grandeur and the wildness, but it was time to do something completely different. So I dragged Michael to southeast Florida, which was actually plan b after I wasn’t able to get any state park reservations in the Florida Keys. There was so much to do…south Florida has three national parks and plenty of city spaces to explore. It’s the most urban area we’ve ever experienced for this amount of time in our lives. We’ve felt crowded and a little claustrophobic. The traffic is way worse than imagined. But the weather has been way better. It’s hard to…
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NYE In Jacksonville, FL
A couple of days after Christmas we packed up and headed toward Florida to thaw out. Literally. We’d just discovered that the low-temperature limit of our Arctic Fox travel trailer is 5 degrees and our fresh water tank was one huge ice cube. We’ve had plans to be Florida snowbirds for at least a year because that’s how far you need to plan in advance. Our first stop was Hanna Park, owned by the city of Jacksonville. Hanna Park is awesome. It is oceanfront and the full hookup campsites are tucked into a jungle of live oaks and palms. And it has mountain biking trails! We loved walking to and…
