Back to the Space Coast

As mentioned in our prior posting, we made the trip to the Lipizzaner stables and training facility in rural Florida, east of Sarasota.  This wasn’t a formal performance, but more of a training program for the younger horses, to get used to crowds of people and to hear applause.  They learn to become “crowd pleasers”.  It was an enjoyable afternoon in the Florida sun, after a brief morning shower.  This breed was used as “war horses” in the 1800s and nearly became extinct during WWII.  This branch of the family tree came to USA during the 60’s.  They put on quite a show.

On Friday we packed up and said goodbye to our new riding friends Ron and Arlene, and departed from Little Charlie Creek RV Park, back to Florida’s Atlantic shore known as the Space Coast area.  We are less than 10 miles from where we spent most of January, so we have stopped back there to see some old and new friends.  Another group of Nomads is back at Rockledge.  We have worked with one couple last fall in TN, but we didn’t know the others.  We stopped in to meet with them on Saturday, and went to church services there on Sunday.

This is being written on Monday, after dropping off our car at the body shop this morning.  We have a rental car while ours is being fixed.  We spent the day doing some errands, shopping and exploring.  We found a fairly large, quite new, retail center with lots of outdoor lunch choices. 

They offer live entertainment there on Fridays, which we might have to consider.  This Florida weather is easy to get used to: cool enough overnight to close the windows and run the heater for a short time each morning.  The afternoons have been T-shirt weather, but it cools off again about dinner time.