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okiejules
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Jun 12, 2013

Houston to Orlando

We sold the house and everything in it, retired, and now ready to hit the road full time for a couple of years. First stop is Houston to visit family for awhile and watch those OSU Cowboys play their season opener! Then we will spend about 6 weeks driving from Houston to Orlando....any favorite stops or parks along the way??

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  • Thanks for the great suggestions! H345 - I dont have the lingo down yet...so I'm assuming COE is Corp of Engineers....but WMT??
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    You don't say what type/length of rig that you have , but I would look at the COE sites for longer stays and travel days O/N at WMT .

    Be Safe

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  • PS... forgot about the Tabasco Factory tour at Avery Island Louisiana. Stay at the Lafayette KOA in Scott, LA I-10 Louisiana exit 97.
  • Congrats!! You're leaving Oklahoma???? My kids live outside Lawton. We go there every year! Stop in New Orleans and see the WWII museum. Lake Ponchatrain Landing is a new park on the water but expensive rates. At Mariana FL stay at East Bank Corps of Engineers park on Lake Seminole. Find it on www.recreation.gov and might be under the Georgia listing. While there, go see Florida Caverns State Park. In Freeport Fl is a new RV park we like called Live Oak Landing. Just a few miles drive to the beach. At Dunnellon, stay at Rainbow Springs State Park. Rock Crusher Canyon campground is also nice.
  • agesilaus wrote:
    Well good luck, that's just about my least favorite part of any trip heading west......BK


    Ditto X2.

    Once I hit the GA/FL border heading south I just blast on down 75. Most of anything worth seeing from the border to Orlando is WAY off I-75 and the few things I did jump off to drive to see weren't worth the time and the CG rates around any of them were 2 to 3 times the going rate for sardine parking.

    Consider it just a long relaxing/boring drive at that point to Orlando with a stop over one night in a CG. :W

    To the OP ~BTW: Congrats on selling your house and joining the ranks of full time!:C
  • Well good luck, that's just about my least favorite part of any trip heading west. I have heard of people doing the backroads and small towns of south Louisiana. Once you get to the Florida panhandle there are a multitude of parks and beaches to explore: Grayton Beach, Ft Pickens, Topsail Park, St Andrews SP. And downinto the peninsula there are many major spring type state parks: Suwanee, Manatee Springs, Rainbow Springs, Homosassa Springs and others. South of St Petersburg there are more beaches.

    BK