Clewiston, FL

Having stayed at the Thousand Trails preserve the last 3 weeks, it took us a little longer to get things put away and get organized to move on. Finally, at 11 AM we got going. It's a good thing we didn't have that far to go - 165 miles - which still allowed us to arrive in Clewiston at a decent time - 2:30 PM.

The campground we are staying in is called Okeechobee Landings and is located close to the shores of Lake Okeechobee, the largest freshwater lake in Florida. Our site is very nice:

and with our Camp Club USA discount cost us only $19.25 to stay.

After getting set up, we went into the office to talk to the local workers about the restaurants in the area. There was a fairly good selection, but we chose a Mexican restaurant - Sunrise - that sounded good. The food was OK but it wasn't one of the better Mexican restaurants we've been to. Clewiston is a fairly small town (around 7,000), but it does have a Walmart, which makes it the first town since we left the Orlando area that had one.

We travel the final leg of our trip to Big Pine Key today, which is about 190 miles. If we leave around 9:30 or so, we should arrive there by 3 this afternoon. That would give us plenty of time to settle into our next home site and meet the people we will be working with. We are looking forward to this new chapter...