18 Hours to Go

This is week five of retirement. Smile. yawn, stretch, and smile again.

As you can see we are locked and loaded and from the visual evidence we will probably not be doing much walking:) We depart at 7:30 tomorrow for our first stop at Santee, SC . From there we will go to Ocala and an RV show on Friday and Saturday then on to Fort De Soto in St Petersburg for two glorious weeks. We may even get our canoe into the water. Then off to Key West, Palm Beach, Okeechobee, St Augustine, Hilton Head and Huntsville. Is this living or what!

My Allegheny and Shenandoah Railroad is progressing. The hand laid track at Lawn Knob is moving along slowly. This is the logging site that will be serviced by a very cool pair of Shay locomotives and is also the highest point on the railroad, just above the Needmore tunnels. A few more hours of spiking rail to the ties and it will be done - a few more hours that will not happen any time soon. Stay tuned, I promise the photos from Fort De Soto will be great.