{"id":6361,"date":"2024-01-20T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:48:11","slug":"ending-my-time-at-eg-simmons-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=6361","title":{"rendered":"Ending my time at EG Simmons Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather has been very unusual this year; it would change
\nevery three days from cold mornings in the 40\u2019s, to some rain during the day and then a warmer couple of days in the low 70\u2019s. There were no bugs or sand fleas at all, but it limited some of my activities. But at least it was warmer than back home with snow and temperatures near zero degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n

I only got to paddle my kayak twice, once around the canoe
\ntrail and on a calm day along Tamps Bay over to Bahia Beach.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had trouble getting a prescription shipped to local Ruskin
\npost office. I rode my bike over there twice and once over to the Apollo Beach PO where it was eventually shipped but got lost. I finally got them to reorder it from a Walgreen\u2019s which was in Sun City Center about 10 miles away. I had to take a busy local road with narrow bike lanes until I got to the golf cart lanes in the 50+ community. I was able to shop at an Aldi\u2019s and Walmart near the Walgreens so that was good. I made the ride twice and it drizzled on me both times.<\/span><\/p>\n

So during my 2 week visit I rode my bike almost 100 mi and
\npaddled about 10 miles. The weather forecast is finally predicting temperatures in the 80\u2019s at my next campground south of Sarasota. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Some of the things Peggy and I always did didn\u2019t happen. We liked to ride our tandem over to the Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Peggy liked to get some Grouper at Julies Fish House an outdoor restaurant about 3 mi from camp.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The weather has been very unusual this year; it would change every three days from cold mornings in the 40\u2019s, to some rain during the day and then a warmer couple of days in the low 70\u2019s. There were no bugs or sand fleas at all, but it limited some of my activities. But at … Continue reading Ending my time at EG Simmons Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2324trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361","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=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6617,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions\/6617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}