Do you get as excited heading south as my wife and ..

[NanciL]

I do.
Here it is still 15 days before our departure and we are already packing the trailer with stuff that won't freeze or be harmed by the cold.
We have been snow birds for many years now and it seems each year we are more excited then the previous years.

By the time we will be leaving the Tuesday following Thangsiving (when the last of our many children and grandchildren have gone over the bridge away from grandmothers house)

Packing the trailer and the truck with all our kayak/canoe gear, back packing gear, bikes and biking gear, tools etc is like at the supermarket trying to fit 10 pounds of groceries into a five pound
bag

Jack L

[Traveler_II]

We head out in two days, it's "0" here this morning sure wish we had done this a month ago. The good news is the trailer is 1,000 miles south of here so we will meet up and head out for the rest of the winter.

[NanciL]

RoyB wrote:
Read you guys were heading for Key West and wanting to know about boondocking.

I have only been down that way once TDY working at DOD site. No quarters there for us and we had stay back on main land. Thats a long 100 mile plus drive everyday to get to work haha...

Roy Ken

Not us, you are thinking of another post where I told them there is no way they can boon dock in the Keys.
I wouldn't even try it.

We are all ligit and pay for our stays, except when we do a little stealth Yak packing on some remote off shore Key.

Jack L

[Cloud_Dancer]

I'm a sunbelter,.....or is it sunbeltor. In any case, yesterday I was wishing I had been further south, as in Homestead,.....the racing WAS exciting.

[LynnandCarol]

We are south already and VERY glad every time we look at the weather!

[RoyB]

Read you guys were heading for Key West and wanting to know about boondocking.

I have only been down that way once TDY working at DOD site. No quarters there for us and we had stay back on main land. Thats a long 100 mile plus drive everyday to get to work haha...

Roy Ken

[the_bear_II]

Since we already live in the South we get the excited feeling when packing to head to our 4 month stay in an RV Resort on San Diego Bay for the Summer.

[John_Joey]

I so wish we were more like you and your DW. For us it requires effort to move south and it would be so much easier to just sit in the house, watch the snow fall, and cut coupons then winterize a place, pack for six months, and fight traffic south.

We actually need to force ourselves into going through all the effort it takes to move south because we know the rewards will far outweigh the pains. There is a saying that once a snowbird takes a winter off they never go back to the lifestyle. I think we all like to take the path of least resistance even if it's not good for us.

[fla-gypsy]

I'm living the dream in the land of my nativity (Florida) and plan on staying