As I have written here before, full- and extended-time RVing is not the same as being on vacation. For one, we have the same housekeeping chores that we would have at home and rainy days are good days for doing inside chores. We have enough clothing with us to last about 10 days and had not done the laundry in over a week, so today was laundry day. Our site (439) is a short walk to the laundry room in the old/south section of the Williston Crossings RV Resort. (Old means that it was here before the new/north section was built. The old section is very nice with mature landscaping and facilities that are in excellent condition.)
When I checked my e-mail yesterday I had one from Donna Bartolomeo. Donna and Michael are members of our FMCA Freethinkers chapter and fellow vegans. They also arrived at Williston Crossings yesterday and will be here for a week. By mid-afternoon the rain had let up so we went for a walk in the general direction of their site (245) and found them just as they were heading out for a bicycle ride. We chatted for a few minutes and invited them to dinner, which they accepted.
They came over to our coach at 6 PM and brought a bottle of wine. Linda prepared a nice green salad and made her mushroom kale barley risotto with garlic and shallots. As with all of the other members of our chapter that we have had the pleasure to meet, we had a long, easy, comfortable conversation. During the course of that conversation we found out that they have a home near St. Petersburg, Florida but had specifically booked this week at Williston Crossings back in October because we had announced that we would be here starting January 1st! They invited us back to their motorhome for dinner sometime while they are here and I know we will spend more time in conversation with them before they leave.
A cold front has been pushing this way and the rain was forecast to end overnight with the low temperature dropping to 35 degrees F. It looks like we will have a couple of days with mid-30s low temps and then a couple of days early next week with lows in the upper 20s but we knew that this part of Florida occasionally sees those kinds of temperatures in January, and we are prepared for them.