It’s a Small, Small World

This past week we’ve continued to stay at the Escapees campground near Bushnell, FL.  It’s a campground for members of the Escapees club – mostly full-timers.  So most of us here have an understanding of this lifestyle, which is nice. 

We found this saying printed on the back of a nearby motorhome that caught our attention:

                                         It says, "If there is anything left, we miscalculated".

 

Upon taking walks this week, we’ve come across the following connections just within this campground:

-        We saw a couple walking their dog.  The man had an Amazon shirt on like the ones we got this year for working there.  Stopped to talk and they worked in Campellsville, KY and knew a Nomads couple that are friends of ours.

-        After the above conversation, we saw another couple.  The wife had a Minnesota shirt on.  While talking with them, we found that the man lived in Duluth in the 80’s.  Ended up he lived on Catskill St. (same street that Paige’s family house was) and bought that house from people Paige knew.

-        Walked by an RV with a plaque stating name and that they lived in Crystal, MN.  Upon talking to them, discovered that they lived fairly close to our former church and are good friends with a couple we know from the church.

-        Met another man walking his dog.  Turns out he’s a “Ranger” who was originally from Virginia MN – and familiar with the Whiteface.  They raised their children in Alabama but go back to MN every summer now that they retired.

So, it’s always amazing to us that there are so many connections between people, if you just take the time to have a conversation.

This past week was a quiet one.  We took the time to give the motorhome a bath, do laundry, go for walks, do taxes (yuk!!), and take a ride to the big RV dealership, LazyDays, in Tampa. 

Today was the Nomads Florida get together in Fruitland Park.  There were 144 people who came together for lunch and fellowship.  We saw so many familiar faces but also realized there are so many that we haven’t met yet.  There are about 1000 Nomads on the membership roles right now so it’s a fairly big group!

Tomorrow morning we move to our next project in Williston, FL, only about 60 miles away from here.  We’ll be there for 3 weeks, working with couples in 4 other RV’s and we’ve never met any of these folks yet.