{"id":5223,"date":"2017-12-27T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:56:48","slug":"2018-back-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5223","title":{"rendered":"2018 Back to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-PbxpILkXAAU\/WkQK7sdhW-I\/AAAAAAAAGjc\/sLsymnOEJooBWOIRbsbNKzHxUUX_nviBwCHMYCw\/s1600-h\/Day15-19-Map3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 15px 5px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Day15-19 Map\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-KDzER7bGWBc\/WkQK8GNQ_YI\/AAAAAAAAGjg\/ArL4UJLtMr0VREGqMWlQ6z6s7Q5GOpyKgCHMYCw\/Day15-19-Map_thumb1?imgmax=800\" alt=\"Day15-19 Map\" width=\"579\" height=\"771\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We fly back to Orlando, FL on New Year\u2019s Eve. No party plans, so we took advantage of cheaper air fare back to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The map shows our tentative travel plans for January. We will start at Lithia Springs County Park (16) which is on the Alafia River and adjacent to some nice neighborhood bike trails, We then will head to WP Franklin, Corps of Engineers campground for 2 weeks at a lock in the Caloosahatchee River (17) near Fort Myers. We will rough it for a few days in Myakka State Forest (18) and then head to Tampa Bay and hope to get a site at EG Simmons County Park (19), they don\u2019t take reservations and are usually full.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-QM9x-TSY2wc\/WkVSFBatuXI\/AAAAAAAAGks\/w6cOi_ecuKUHy_QOEc9XPykqGPwQaTiwQCHMYCw\/s1600-h\/Line%255B8%255D\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Line\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Bjj72Rw_vsw\/WkVSFhnUojI\/AAAAAAAAGkw\/OExBGRX_rRIB053CCSeh1yEc_FIM21TQACHMYCw\/Line_thumb%255B4%255D?imgmax=800\" alt=\"Line\" width=\"924\" height=\"6\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6852\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6852\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Christmas_TShirt-629x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Christmas_TShirt-629x1024.jpg 629w, https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Christmas_TShirt-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Christmas_TShirt.jpg 663w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Peggy and I are both over\u00a0 our colds or flu which hung on for two full weeks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We had our big family Christmas party and got a couple of sweatshirts and T-Shirts to bring back to FL.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Hopefully Peg\u2019s bright sweatshirt will keep the hunters from shooting us while we ride our tandem bike through areas where active hunting is going on.<a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-nk9u9YUr_Sk\/WkQK-ZXbQ8I\/AAAAAAAAGj0\/DD4tw5Btp3cEGw1Yo-Ze8Uoq_vLcJm-HgCHMYCw\/s1600-h\/Christmas_The%2BBig%2BKids2%255B4%255D\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" title=\"Christmas_The Big Kids2\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-SAxoVL2LAR8\/WkQK-4_fROI\/AAAAAAAAGj4\/zEGn0mpNWgkicug9xfbbvogQ73_13pGGACHMYCw\/Christmas_The%2BBig%2BKids2_thumb%255B2%255D?imgmax=800\" alt=\"Christmas_The Big Kids2\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Pam, Jeff , Meg and Joan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">If anyone wants to join us anywhere let me know. We always have room for one more vehicle on our campsite. Or if you are nearby and just want to visit,\u00a0 bike or paddle for the day, just call or text.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/canoeing.gif\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We fly back to Orlando, FL on New Year\u2019s Eve. No party plans, so we took advantage of cheaper air fare back to Florida. The map shows our tentative travel plans for January. We will start at Lithia Springs County Park (16) which is on the Alafia River and adjacent to some nice neighborhood bike &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2018 Back to Florida<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1718trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6853,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/6853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}