southernview -- Ray

Yes, and I thought they might just put a toll on 192 when they got through with it. We don't have any toll roads in north Florida, at least in the Panhandle, although we do have a couple of toll bridges, but none that I have to use.

I-4 in Florida also has the distinction of being #3 of the 100 most dangerous roads in America and is topped by Florida's I-95 which comes in at #1.

We have been Dish customers for over 25 years and haven't had any major issues. As for their mobile service, I use a 211k receiver with the Tailgater dish and find it quite reliable and a snap to set up. I especially like the 211k because it has dual tuners, one for satellite and another for OTA television, which allows you to use the receiver for both services when out of your home area all in HD. The mobile service can be had without a contract and no charge to start or stop the monthly service. All of the packages are on a month to month basis. As far as sports are concerned, Direct d

I love 429 as much as any Florida toll road. Does Florida build any other kind of road?

We have been using 535 for years, long before the construction made the roads better and wouldn't go any other way. Besides, I'm too cheap to pay a toll anyway.

Yes, for water only.

If you want cheap we have stayed at Lake Louisa State Park on several occassions at found it to be acceptable. The inconvience of having to empty your grey water tank if you stay for a while was the only drawback. Of course, one could use the bath house and probably avoid that if desired.

We have stayed at Citrus Valley RV Resort in Clermont and found it to be really nice. They advertise a weekly rate of $230.00 from April 1st thru December 31st. Alas, you still have to deal with good ole Hwy. #192.

Reading through one of his trip reports tells me that he is a better writer than some that do it professionally.

This was my camper until a tornado came by my Mt. Olive residence this past April and destroyed it. It was an Open Range 281 FLR. This is my present camper, an Open Range LT 274 RLS. We decided to down size just slightly from the Roamer series to the Light series as we really liked the floor plan and we wanted to reduce the UVW a little anyway. This has turned out to be a great decision on our part because we have fallen in love with the new floorplan. We would have preferred to have had a bedroom slide like our prvious unit, but it was not offered in a unit to our liking. Th

Sometimes it's not the actual value of an object, it's more like the collateral value. I had someone take my wireless outdoor temperature sensor while camping at FW a couple of years ago. It was hanging on a tree right on my campsite so they would have to have came on my site to get it. It may be that certain people these days don't consider it stealing if they are taking something of little apparent value. I think people such as this are closely related to the people that will cut you off in traffic, won't allow you to merge properly, and are otherwise discourteous in their daily living.

TCD wrote: Great advice and I would add to that to be careful to keep a lookout for snakes. Not far from there, I witnessed a Cotton Mouth a few years ago. We sometimes forget that the Fort is surrounded by much wilderness. By the way, great pictures TCD.

I'm really not sure what you are referring to about taking away leg room, I find ample leg room and I'm 6' tall. I own a 2012 Longhorn, and I don't experience any more lack of leg room than in any other truck. My Son has a Silverado and the leg room is no different than mine.

My neighbor in PCB goes to Long Key State Park, at Long Key, every year. If you decide to go to the Keys, this would be one of the best, but if you go, better make reservations as soon as possible as he says they are hard to come by. The only other true waterfront sites that I have seen is at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area, Flagler Beach. Some other campground that I know of, and have personally seen, in my area of Florida (Panhandle) that comes close to an ocean view is Emerald Beach RV Park, Navarre, FL. I have never stayed there, but it is a Good Sam listed park. There

I'm really glad you did make it to the Fort if it was in the manner that you were forced to choose. I really feel for you on the bad luck that you had with your truck. My son is a diesel mechanic and I know first hand about the sorry work that you can get at many shops and my son tells me that the 6.0 is one of the main engines that a marginal mechanic can screw up in a minute. Most dealers, at least in the areas that I am familiar with, don't have very well trained diesel mechanics, some in this area don't have one that is dedicated to their shop and must share a mechanic that will work at

That, sometimes may sound like a cliche, however, I come out of front line management with a large organization and over a 40 year career I have seen this happen time after time. Every time a new, upper level manager comes in, he/she would change something, and when they would leave the new replacement would do the same. Many times a new manager would change things back to the way they originally were. Rarely did I see a change that actually helped anything, most of the time the best you could hope for was that the change would be neutral, no better, no worse. Can someone tell me what a R

I have to confess -- I snickered at that picture.

It was 76 here in PCB today and I would rather be at the Fort. Just to make things worse for everyone, I submit the picture below to help ease our pain, or make it worse.

Good information, I think you have made some good points.

As a further note; I am in no way saying that a majority of the CM's are duds, I have had too many good experiences to say that. What I am saying is that, the quality of the CM's has regressed, at least in my opinion. For years the DW and myself used to talk all of the time about how every CM that we dealt with was so good. I once asked the leader of a tour we were on, just how Disney managed to get such good people, telling him that I was in management with a large service organization and I knew how hard this was to accomplish. I don't know why the quality of the people seems to have go

I would be surprised if you even got a response, but they may be in a good mood and send you a letter back apologizing. Even so, I am convinced that Disney doesn't really give a hoot if you come back or not. If you don't ever come back there will be about 10 others to replace you and they know that. Back sometime ago, I used to receive a questionnaire asking how my trip went and if I had any "magical moments" to report, but they always asked in a way that you couldn't find a spot to make any comments or suggestions about anything that you were not specifically asked. I haven't even recei

Probably so--the reason I was asking was that, when I was there earlier in the month, they had the MK train shut down for some refurbishing. I saw them running some test runs on it toward the last of my stay, but I never could determine what all they were doing to it. I did notice some new insulated joints in the rails, at a couple of points that I could see, which would indicate that they might have been updating the signal system or something of the like. Does anyone know exactly what they were doing. If you haven't guessed, I'm a railfan.

What happened to the train?

Anyone know what they did to the RR at MK during it's recent closing?

We did everything online and everything seemed to go fairly well--so we thought. Yesterday we ate at the Mexican pavillion and charged the bill on our Disney card, when the waitress brought the bill back to be signed, the machine would not take our pin code, kept saying that the pin code had never been activated. This almost was a really embarrassing situation as we did not have enough cash for the bill, or a credit card on hand at the time. The waitress had to get special permission for us to charge the meal on the card otherwise we would have been washing dishes or something. Later, at C