Tampa, Florida - Bay Bayou RV Resort

Last Thursday we set off early-ish (early no longer means the same thing to us that it did a couple of months ago!) from Savannah southbound toward Tampa. It was a great day of driving- no traffic issues at all. We arrived here at Bay Bayou around mid-afternoon and spent the rest of the day just settling in and getting the lay of the land since we'll be here for a while. The campground is beautiful - we're on a spacious, grassy site along the creek, with a patio pad.

On Friday we drove out across the causeway to Honeymoon Beach:

On the way back we stopped for a first of the day at Whisky Joe's, right on the causeway, which incidentally is where Music on the Bay will be in February - we'll be right there and look forward to meeting up with lots of old friends!

The weather has been fabulous since we got here - sunny and around 80 every day. There is a little garden path that leads from our site to the pool and we walked down for some poolside time yesterday. I swam 10 laps...don't make fun, that's a lot for me! Then I had a cocktail, which probably undid all the good the swimming did for me.

Other than that, we've been meeting some of our neighbors and getting to know the neighborhood since this is the longest we'll be in one place for a while. Tomorrow morning we are heading off to Key West for Meeting of the Minds and we'll be gone 6 days, but the moho stays here in Tampa. Looking forward to meeting up with all our homey PH peeps from Chicago, as well as the "extended family" from New Hampshire, Seattle and the rest of the country!