[speaker002:] no we just uh I guess I'm hot on this subject because we just spent three weeks camping in a recreational vehicle
[speaker001:] uh where did you go
[speaker002:] we took a tour of Florida
[speaker001:] well interestingly enough I'm calling from Miami
[speaker002:] okay well I was down there visiting the uh the orchid jungle
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] there in uh Homestead
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] came back with about ten plants that I hadn't planned on
[speaker001:] well yeah
[speaker002:] yeah we were down past Miami went down into the Keys
[speaker001:] well you know that's something I've never done is go down to the Keys although I I'm just here on business but uh I would love to go down there
[speaker002:] um well we found it a little bit of a disappointment uh we had expected some nice warm sunny days we got two days above seventy
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh we thought the beaches would be nice but uh uh well Key West was uh just coral rubble
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh we did find Bahia Honda was a fairly nice state park it had a nice beach
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but the water was running about seventy five degrees so it was kind of hard to get the kids to to go in and and snorkel and and do those sort of things
[speaker001:] yeah well I've never done any motor home camping although uh uh it it is more attractive to me now than it used to be when I was a kid uh we used to go camping up in the Ozarks in Arkansas
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh we found a pretty remote campground uh uh actually whenever we first started going to it you had to drive about twenty five miles on a gravel road
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] to get back up into it and uh it had uh no electricity and uh it had a hand pump for water but it was on a lake that was just crystal clear and we would spend a week up there you know and they had a a little country store about ten miles away that you could get you know minimal provisions so you pretty much had to carry everything you needed with you
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh that was it was great fun but since then I honestly have not done much what you could call camping
[speaker002:] hum well my uh my wife talks a lot about camping and uh she's taken the girls uh on off to Girl Scout camp a couple of times but my idea of camping is in a either an RV or in a thirty thirty five foot sailboat
[speaker001:] yeah well now yeah you kind of remind me of a friend of mine who who said her idea of roughing it is slow room service
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] but uh yeah I've got a uh I've got a friend of mine in Houston who has a forty two foot uh Tartan sailboat
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and uh it which has for me has been the best of all worlds because he's got the expense and I get the pleasure of going out on it
[speaker002:] yeah I did that for a number of years I crewed for a fellow that uh was doing a lot of racing
[speaker001:] well that's hard work
[speaker002:] and uh and well it was fun it was quite enjoyable
[speaker001:] yeah I've I've been with it on on several uh races we've run the Pensacola yacht race for a couple of years
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh but no I love to sail and I agree I had never thought really thought about that as camping before but that is that is probably one of the best ways to go
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] what did you do did you rent a motor home when you came to Florida
[speaker002:] yeah we rented one from uh Cruise America
[speaker001:] was it what is that expensive
[speaker002:] uh it was running about eighty seven dollars a day
[speaker001:] well that's cheaper than a hotel room really
[speaker002:] that's cheaper than a hotel and you add uh oh maybe another twenty five dollars for that for a camp site
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and you know the hookup and water and sewage and so forth
[speaker001:] how big was the one you rented
[speaker002:] we had a uh thirty two footer
[speaker001:] yeah was that uh any problem driving or
[speaker002:] well it's it's a big truck uh but uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] when you get that big a truck the uh the fuel economy goes to pot if you try to push it at sixty five and you get pretty decent fuel economy at fifty five
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] so uh I just uh had a change of mind set and I would set the uh autopilot on fifty five and just cruise down the highway well everybody else wants to speed so they wind up passing you
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and you just stay in the right lane and there's nobody in front of you and all you have to do is guide it
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker002:] so it's kind of a pleasant way to drive you uh I've found that I get there just about as fast as anybody else because there will be some cars that I'll pass two or three times during the day the same one
[speaker001:] oh sure yeah yeah that always irritates me when I pass somebody several times I've I've been in the other in the other uh uh uh had the shoe on the other foot
[speaker002:] yeah because you go down there and some hotshot will go by you that you know he's got a colorful car that you recognize and
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] the next thing you know you know it's lunchtime he's got to stop for lunch and you just holler at your wife to make you a sandwich
[speaker001:] yeah yeah right right right
[speaker002:] and uh well we enjoyed it uh one of of places we visited was uh Walt Disney World
[speaker001:] uh