After two days on the road we’re back home but, since the RV already seems like home, Satellite Beach is more like our “soon to be former” home. Since all the food in the rental house’s fridge rotted while the electric was out, we are staying in the RV until the smell is gone.
We left Georgia Monday and stayed in Northern Florida until Tuesday. I had an interesting moment after waking up. I realized we were far away from our temporary home in Georgia and at a new campground but my surroundings were the same indoors. Having spent most of my traveling time in hotels, I appreciate how nice it is to wake up in a new town and still have all my stuff in the same place it was in the last town. Home really is anywhere we park and that feels great!
What wasn’t great was seeing the devastation Frances left behind here. South Patrick Shores really took a beating. Fortunately, we only lost the food and our satellite dish. The house had some water come in under a gap in a door but only a small section of carpet got wet. The fence was badly damaged and the big tree out front lost all its bark. The neighbor’s tree (which always blocked our view when pulling out of the driveway) is gone, so that’s one good thing! The bugs have invaded in force to escape the storm so we’ll be spraying and squashing for awhile.
Mom and dad’s place got hit hard. They lost their screened porch, part of the shed roof and the roof of the house was damaged. It is salvageable but will need quite a bit of work. We’ll do what we can for them and try to get our stuff into storage before the next hurricane, named Jeanne, hits. If we leave Florida again, it’ll be for good. California here we come – earthquakes, wildfires, tsunamis, oh my!
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