Thursday
Well we are well and truly splashed down. Flew in over enjoying the Florida Cape Canaveral an hour early, which gave us time to take a leisurely drive the 75 miles to Connie and Jim's.
We are now enjoying the Florida sunshine, though feeling v. tired.
We have joined in a couple of really nice jams, but chose yesterday afternoon to take a side trip to one of Florida's most beautiful springs - Rainbow Springs State Park in Dunnellon. It is a wonderful spring, surrounded by trees and Azalea in full bloom, lots of large butterflies floating around, brightly coloured birds flashing through the trees and fish swimming in the crystal clear spring of the Rainbow River, welling out of the ground at its constant 72 degrees F. Enabled us to remember why we think that Florida is such a wonderful state with such diversity of habitat. A relaxingly peaceful afternoon, though we met some really nice family from Minnesota and Indiana and spent an hour or so just chatting, only to find that we had been near their home when we visited Sioux Falls in October and drove past Stonepipe Park.
Great journey from Tombstone, in AZ, to the Napa Valley, in CA...............................................Including Jim and Connie's Party!
What we did!
This is the blog of our 12th Trip to the U.S.A.
On this trip we arrived in March and spent a week with our friends Connie NA Jim at their Bluegrass Party, in Florida.
We then flew to Phoenix, where we collected our rig and then explored Southern Arizona, from the cowboy city of Tombstone in the East, to the desert City of Yuma in the West.
Travelling north along the course of the Colorado river we visited the London Bridge at Lake Havasu before exploring the Mojave Desert, including some more of Rout 66 and Calico Ghost Town.
Moving North West through California we shared in the CBA Bluegrass Campout in Turlock, before visiting Bodega Bay to follow The Birds. After sampling the delights of the Napa Valley we joined in The Fiddle Convention at Cloverdale before storing our rig and returning home after seeing some friends in San Leandro, near San Francisco.
This blog gives a day to day record of many of the things we did on this trip.
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