CLERMONT, FL: Time to Move On

We arrived at Bee's RV Resort on Monday.  We've enjoyed times with Tom & Carol, who are in this park, and Kat & Fred, who are in the park across the highway.  Our activities have included:

Enjoying the all-you can eat dinners at Bee's with chicken on Tuesday, and fish on Friday:

Meeting up with Dave & Charlotte (ham radio friends) in Lake Louisa State Park 10 miles south of us, then sharing lunch at Uncle Kenny's BBQ in Clermont.

Traveling up and down Hwy. 27 on various errands;

Touring the area around Lake Minneola;

Enjoying the sunny weather while making it through some of the coldest temperatures for this area in many years;

As we left the Orlando area on Monday via very busy Hwy. 50, two cars tooted at us and pointed to the rear - not the greeting that any RVer wants to get.  Hank found a spot to pull off the roadway, and we found out that a pin had come out of the Blue Ox hitch allowing one of the two arms to disconnect from the car.  The hitch is rated at 10,000 lbs towing capacity and our HHR weighs in at about 3,500 lbs so the remaining arm had easily stayed attached.  It took a bit of jostling the car around to get it into a position where the hitch could be disconnected from the car in order for Selene to drive the car the remaining half hour to Clermont and Bee's RV Resort.  When we took a closer look at the hitch we found that the end of the arm that had remained attached had been slightly bent (about 10 degrees) so Wednesday, we took the hitch to Camping Connection in  Kissimmee for an evaluation on repairs and/or reconditioning.  The hitch was well used when we got it free with our Tahoe in 2012 and it was really showing it's age.  Considering the price of parts to repair and refurbish the unit we decided to purchase a new Blue OX hitch, and while we were there we picked up a few other minor items we needed.  The back of our coach looks a lot nicer now with the bright new black and chrome hitch instead of the old rusty one with peeling paint :-)

Friday, Tom and Hank worked on Fred's TV setup to try to find out why it wasn't working - which turned out to be a simple problem - before the owner sold the coach to Fred, he replaced the TV with an old analog unit. So we all took time to go to Oven Fired Pizza for lunch, and then went shopping for a new TV for Kat and Fred.  Tom and Hank successfully got everything working after mounting the new TV.

Saturday,  the weather finally warmed up to near normal temps which we're all enjoying.

Sunday,  the temperatures were warm enough that we needed to turn on the AC.  Tom & Carol, and Kat & Fred joined us for dinner at Chili's.  The restaurant was very busy so service was slow, but that gave us lots of time for conversation and laughter.

Today we're leaving Clermont and  heading to Old Town, FL, about 2 hours away.