The song !! Really love the song and the music . True love shines. What a poet you are !!! There are so many wonderful and beautiful sunset , scenery and pelicans made me smile. I bet the Maggie was just having the best time in her life. Thank you for taking me along on this beautiful time in both of your lives . Thank you for sharing this wonderful video with me. As always BS & BK
That last sunset is the prettiest sunset I have ever seen. You should publish a photo book of your pictures. I just love your photographing. You are so good at it.
Sunsets and wildlife at Fort Desoto…. Glad you guys got to spend more time there. Beautiful place and great news avoiding Texas bad weather. You guys be safe.. David and Juanita!!!
Great video! Great park too to camp at. The sunset was beautiful on the lake and it looked like you had a nice bike ride. Maggie was happy when you got back. That was cute Maggie using one paw and then the other to let you know she wanted a burger too! That was so cute. Cute picture of the Pelicans. It looked nice to go on the beach with the van. Glad you had at Ft. De Soto. The hamburgers looked good. I wouldn’t go either just yet to Texas with it being bad weather right now. It might be good to wait a bit. Hope you have a great day and see you soon! Stay safe and travel safe.
I’m so sorry, I hope you know that was not our intent. We think of you often and hope you are doing well or as well as can be expected. Much love my friend.
Another wonderful video with tremendous music accompaniment (too big a word for the morning) but I loved your song. Smart move to stay in Florida a little longer. It has been a terrible winter here up north. Next year we will be roaming Florida in our Travato in the winter and your videos are giving me a lot of ideas. Maggie is clearly the Star of this weeks video.
One of the petties place I've seen. I love , love the breach. I plan on going to DeSoto FL. One of this days soon. Thank for your video. Really enjoyed it alot. Be safe and Be Happy.
Excellent episode! I've had difficulty booking FLA county parks. I tried fervently to score a site at Kelly Park... unsuccessfully so far. Love you guys! Peace & Prayers.
Love Fort DeSoto! We had to cancel our reservations at this fabulous park this past Jan to get ahead of a winter storm. We would have hit Fayetteville with 16 degrees and ice/snow and still not home. No thanks. Fortunately only docked 1 night fee. Love Oscar Scherer too! Thanks for the wonderful Fort DeSoto footage!!!!
Hi to you all! We stopped by Fort De Soto Park the week of the Tamps RV show for a day at the beach 🏖 very nice 👍 Thanks for nice drone shots of the area. Safe Travels.
I heard that's a hard park to get into. Glad you guys got a spot(s) for a few days. I do not blame you for hanging around in Florida and not moving west in that cold mess in Texas. Be safe, and scratch Maggie for me!
I am so glad you guys went here. We are braving the heat at the end of July. I am from Florida and can not wait. Hot, mosquitoes, but we will be camping. Try Alafia River State Park. Awesome bike trails. Hope ti see you out there.
Such a fun video…y’all’s videography and photography capturing all of the pelicans, dolphins, etc are so fun to watch. We are traveling along with you vicariously as we are still awaiting our new rv delivery. We enjoyed all of your music which helped set the tone of the video. Thank y’all for doing what you do to bring some sun and fun to those of us still grinding away anxiously awaiting rv’s and retirement.
Beautiful video and editing! You just took us right back to Florida! I loved the animal closeups! Maggie was beautiful watching the sunset, too! Loved the peek-a-boo at the Fort. Maggie was so happy when you got back! Sadie & Stanly are always happy to see us get home. Wise decision to let the bad weather pass. Being retired is great! So much love to y’all! ❤️🙏🏻Safe travels! Jane from SC
Keep looking, that’s what we did. It seemed like early morning was the best time to look but we ended up looking all through the day. Good luck you will love it.
Was that a Rocky Poteet siting? Enjoyed your trip. Add Ft. DeSoto to the bucket list. Thanks to you all, we just made reservations in Myrtle Beach State Park. Looking forward to it already. Thanks for showing the path forward!
We hope you like Myrtle Beach SP, don’t forget Huntington Beach SP right down the road either. Ft. DeSoto has always been on our bucket list and it did not disappoint. Thanks for watching.
We just left the Texas coast , lots of places to drive on beaches. We left Arkansas in freezing rain on Feb 2, had good weather till this past week in Texas. The sun finally came out after 4 days and 4 days of below 40.
So I'm listening to the music and think it sounds like Owen. So I clicked show more and Wow. Owen your voice narrating is great but singing, fantastic! One of these days I'm going to meet you. I left North Carolina in April and now live in Lakeland FL
Thank you so much for the inspiring comment, it is so much appreciated. Hope you meet you on the road, it’s one of our favorite things about having this channel.
Loved this video! The scenery, the wildlife, (have never seen white pelicans), Maggie doing “zoomies”! Hope we can snag a site at Fort DeSoto one day. The song “True Love Shines On” is beautiful, thanks so much for sharing. We will be celebrating our 55th anniversary this year and still RV. Maybe we’ll see you three out there one day!
Congratulations on 55 years together and if you are still RVing it shows an even stronger bond. Thanks so much for commenting and it would be great to see you on the road someday.
Beautiful area of Florida for sure. Best plans are no plans or at least plans that can be revised.....Looking forward to the episodes out west. Stay Safe Happy Trails
Depending on when the video was made, we may have been camping there at the same time. (It was sunny and chilly too when we were there) It was our first stay at Fort DeSoto, and we will come back next year. Gorgeous park with lots to watch and do.
Wonderful video, love the Pelican & Maggie, are you considering south Padre island @ corpus Christi in Texas, we camped on the beach there back in 2001. Beautiful area there. ❤️
Yes… our experience with having to use our iPhones to zoom in on the great owl we got to experience convinced us that we need a camera that allows us to do a lot of optical zoom when needed. So now we have our iPhones, LAC (Little-Ass-Camera) and BAC (Big… 😂). It does a great job… now we just need to remember to take it with us when we hike and bike.
Maggie was so precious with the hamburger!! Two paws!! Stanly does the same when I eat! ❤️ This was so great! The pelicans were amazing! Great pics, Lynn! ❤️🙏🏻 Was that y’all windsurfing? 😘
One of my favorite places. I've camped there a few times. Sites facing the gulf are awesome! Egmont Key Island is gorgeous! I miss that area. I used to live near the Gandhi bridge in Tampa.
Have y'all ever been to Sanibel Island? It's a beautiful place along with Upper Captiva Island. It's the state's best for shelling. The sands are so white and the water is usually pretty clear at this time of the year. I hope one day y'all will visit the islands and see what I mean. Get your reservations for next winter now if you want to stay anywhere on Sanibel during the winter camping season. It's truly a place you don't want to miss out on if you're ever in S.W. Florida. Happy trails and many truly remarkable adventures await y'all.
We really like the screen room, it’s good to have an extra place to hang out even if there’s no bug, but especially if there are bugs, and it’s small enough to carry on the ladder.
So I get the feeling that you don't experience too much anxiety when you work on booking new places to stay. That's helpful for me, as I'll be doing this full-time soon, and finding places to stay is my top worry just now. Thanks.
We don’t worry to much about booking places to stay, I think it depends on the area you are staying. We do try to plan a couple of weeks out when we know we are going to be in a certain area. We use Harvest Host, Campendium and IOverlandder mostly to find places to stay also RVParky is great for planing a trip. Good luck on going full time. Let us know if you have any questions.
@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle Anxiety is based on the difference between doing it, and just thinking about how to do it. I appreciate your suggestions, and I'll (try to) stop worrying so much. Van on!
50 years ago, we would clam and throw the castnet for Mullet about where you had lunch. Than we would take them back to my aunt who would then fry the fish up and make hush puppies and grits on Saturday nights Loved it out there .
Ft De Soto such a neat place to spend time. The pelicans and herons are such fun to watch. It always amazes me how they fly so effortlessly in ground effect even dipping their wingtips in the water! All that and massive cheeseburgers! GPS location for the next burger grilling, please. 😉😉 Or maybe I’ll just ask Maggie. Her nose and tail will let me know. Thanks!
We love watching the pelicans too, especially them diving into the water, it is so amazing. That cheeseburger did look pretty massive but he sure was good and Maggie approved.
I wish Ft De Soto campground was a secret. It's almost impossible to get a good site there. So glad you could extend your stay. Oscar Scherer is one of my favorite state parks, especially if you can get those coveted spots along the river
We’ve been trying to get in there for several years, for some reason we just got lucky. We got lucky with Oscar Scherer, but since we have Maggie we couldn’t get on the river, they do look really nice.
@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle so happy for you. A couple of those river spots extend down to a little peninsula jutting into the water. That's on my bucket list.
Ft Desoto is our favorite local park. We were just there a few weeks ago! Question for you, we just got an Insta 360 ONE X2 camera as well. You did a great job with the editing. What program do you edit the 360 footage in?
We love Ft Desoto too! None of the footage from this trip is on the One X2 360… it’s on the Insta360 Go 2… the little camera. On 360 footage I always edit the footage with the Insta360 app by bring up the part that lets you spin around pointing the phone and repositioning. Works best sitting in a swivel office chair too btw!
Can you share where you got the bags you put on your Rad rack? I need something like that to store "stuff" in when we ride and not have so much in the backpack. Great video, hope you make it to Texas later. We're still stuck up here in Ft Worth in the cold.
I put them in our Amazon page under “Bike Items” here the link to our page if interested www.amazon.com/shop/VanTrekkingLifestyle. Also, here’s the name of the bags ROCKBROS Bike Trunk Bag Bicycle Rack Rear Carrier Bag Commuter Bike Luggage Bag Pannier with Rain Cover. Thanks for watching.
I could sit and watch pelicans all day long. Thank you for showing us the white ones we have never seen them before. This was a great video and a good lesson that you have to be flexible with your plans on the road. Happy tails and safe travels.
I could watch the pelicans all day too, they are so much fun, we’ve seen white pelicans one other time and it’s always a treat. Thanks so much for watching.
Thanks for another post card from the road! It is always a treat to see what you guys are up to. Hoping y’all are finding many opportunities for wasting some time. 😉 Things are hopping a little bit in NW FL as the build up to Mardi Gras Day approaches. We briefly considered a run down to Pensacola Beach and Ft. Pickens but sanity prevailed . There will be crowds of people down there for a Mardi Gras parade and much merriment. So not today. That’s the beauty of living where we do. In a few more days (3) it’ll all be over until next year (the Insanity that is Mardi Gras, that is) and we can go out to a peaceful, serene beach. Temps are supposed to be 77+ Looking forward to next week’s chapter in lifestyles of the Van Trekkers! Byeee! Maggie is a peach! Give her an extra bite of burger, just because she’s too cute!
We’ve been around Florida during Marci Gras and it is very crowded and a lot of fun, but you know how much we like crowds. Sounds like you are having prefect weather. See you next Sunday or maybe Tuesday.
We have Rad mini fat tire step thru. We’ve had the bikes for over two years and have been really happy with them. However, there are so many new one out there we may have to do more research before I could say we would buy the same ones. I will say they are a great company and have awesome customer support. It’s a big decision… good luck
I try not to give her a lot of table food, Owen not so much. He thinks she should be able to get a bite of everything she wants and Maggie agrees with him.
Great video. Remember there are 100's of free campgrounds within the water management districts. Matter fact I do believe you made a video on them not sure. They are free and very nice to boondock.
The song !! Really love the song and the music . True love shines. What a poet you are !!! There are so many wonderful and beautiful sunset , scenery and pelicans made me smile. I bet the Maggie was just having the best time in her life. Thank you for taking me along on this beautiful time in both of your lives . Thank you for sharing this wonderful video with me. As always BS & BK
Thank you so much for your kind comment, it is much appreciate.
I LOVE your True Love Shines On song, Owen! Maggie was just PRECIOUS with the hamburger! The paw on the arm was killer! 🐶😊
Thank you, glad you like the song. Maggie is the cutest… we love her little personality. Thanks for watching.
Greetings from Romania! Wow, how nice to visit so many wonderful places with the caravan! Your puppy is a darling! Congratulations on the movie!
Greeting to you. Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment.
That last sunset is the prettiest sunset I have ever seen. You should publish a photo book of your pictures. I just love your photographing. You are so good at it.
What a sweet thing to say. We truly appreciate your comment.
Sunsets and wildlife at Fort Desoto…. Glad you guys got to spend more time there. Beautiful place and great news avoiding Texas bad weather. You guys be safe.. David and Juanita!!!
It was good to get some warmer weather and we thought it was a good decision to stay a little longer. Hope the house is going well. Miss you guys.
Another great video.Watched it looking out at the latest snowfall.Only in the teens here so far today. Enjoy!
I hope we brought you a little sunshine. Hope you are staying warm.
We loved Fort De Soto too!!! Your song, "True Love Shines On" is beautiful....it made me cry...
Sorry we made you cry, it is a very touching song. Thanks for watching.
@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle Thank you for sharing the song! It brought back some wonderful but sad memories!
Wow, your music and the wildlife shots are fantastic! Especially liked the osprey and heron.
Thank you so much, we appreciate you watching.
Thank you so much, we appreciate you watching.
My favorite place!!! Has become difficult to reserve but when I can I do! Even one night to enjoy! So worth it!!
It is one of our favorites too. There is so much to do in one park.
Absolutely love Fort De Soto! Great video. Maggie is too cute. Loved your music! Happy Travels. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, we appreciate you watching.
Great video! Great park too to camp at. The sunset was beautiful on the lake and
it looked like you had a nice bike ride. Maggie was happy when you got back. That was cute Maggie using one paw and then the other to let you know she wanted a burger too! That was so cute. Cute picture of the Pelicans. It looked nice to go on the beach with the van. Glad you had at Ft. De Soto. The hamburgers looked good. I wouldn’t go either just yet to Texas with it being bad weather right now. It might be good to wait a bit. Hope you have a great day and see you soon! Stay safe and travel safe.
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Great video we really love the music in this video. Happy Tails beautiful sunsets smart for not traveling
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Well that was a little bit of a tear jerker and I couldn’t hold them in. Still too raw. Loved the music. Hi Maggie!
I’m so sorry, I hope you know that was not our intent. We think of you often and hope you are doing well or as well as can be expected. Much love my friend.
Great music playing great music beautiful area keep them coming I love the videos
Thank you so much, we appreciate you watching.
Great video. Maggie loves them burgers. You did have a nice spot with a bridge view.
We loved that view so much we went there everyday we were there. Nice and sunny. Thanks for watching.
Wow, you captured the wonderfull and variete wild life perfectly.
What a stunning sunset sky.....the dream view!
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Another wonderful video with tremendous music accompaniment (too big a word for the morning) but I loved your song. Smart move to stay in Florida a little longer. It has been a terrible winter here up north. Next year we will be roaming Florida in our Travato in the winter and your videos are giving me a lot of ideas. Maggie is clearly the Star of this weeks video.
So glad you are getting some ideas of places to stay in Florida and that you enjoyed the music. I agree Maggie is the star.
Home sweet home…welcome to our backyard! We were actually there in Feb too. Must’ve just missed each other.
We love your backyard. We love this park, so many things to do and see.
One of the petties place I've seen. I love , love the breach. I plan on going to DeSoto FL. One of this days soon. Thank for your video. Really enjoyed it alot. Be safe and Be Happy.
We loved it so much we'll go back every time we can get a reservation... but that is so hard to do. Glad you loved it and glad you found us!
It’s a wonderful place with so many things to do.
Awesome location, music is hard to beat, Owen, thank you!
You are so welcome and thank you for watching.
I love that you do your own music!
Thanks, we appreciate your comment.
So enjoy your videos and songs! Very talented.
Thank you so much, we appreciate you watching.
Thanks for another awesome video. That makes me wanna go visit. Used to live in Old Northeast St. Pete. Not seen that bay in nearly 20 years.
We do love that area and a wonderful place to visit.
Excellent episode! I've had difficulty booking FLA county parks. I tried fervently to score a site at Kelly Park... unsuccessfully so far. Love you guys! Peace & Prayers.
All I can say is keep trying. We’ll have to check out Kelly Park. We appreciate you watching.
Love Fort DeSoto! We had to cancel our reservations at this fabulous park this past Jan to get ahead of a winter storm. We would have hit Fayetteville with 16 degrees and ice/snow and still not home. No thanks. Fortunately only docked 1 night fee. Love Oscar Scherer too! Thanks for the wonderful Fort DeSoto footage!!!!
Sorry you had to cancel, but sometimes you have to do what’s best to get you home safely. Thanks for watching.
Sorry you had to cancel, but sometimes you have to do what’s best to get you home safely. Thanks for watching.
Hi to you all! We stopped by Fort De Soto Park the week of the Tamps RV show for a day at the beach 🏖 very nice 👍 Thanks for nice drone shots of the area. Safe Travels.
It is a good place to spend the day at the beach. Thanks for watching.
This is definitely on my must visit list, hopefully camping too. 👍
It is a beautiful place with so many things to do.
I heard that's a hard park to get into. Glad you guys got a spot(s) for a few days. I do not blame you for hanging around in Florida and not moving west in that cold mess in Texas. Be safe, and scratch Maggie for me!
It is very are to get into, we’ve tried for years, I guess we just go lucky this time. Maggies says thanks for the scratch.
I am so glad you guys went here. We are braving the heat at the end of July. I am from Florida and can not wait. Hot, mosquitoes, but we will be camping. Try Alafia River State Park. Awesome bike trails. Hope ti see you out there.
Thanks for the suggestion, we will put Alafia River SP on our list for next time. Have fun when you visit.
Such a fun video…y’all’s videography and photography capturing all of the pelicans, dolphins, etc are so fun to watch. We are traveling along with you vicariously as we are still awaiting our new rv delivery.
We enjoyed all of your music which helped set the tone of the video. Thank y’all for doing what you do to bring some sun and fun to those of us still grinding away anxiously awaiting rv’s and retirement.
Thank you so much for your inspiring comment, it is very much appreciated.
Beautiful video and editing! You just took us right back to Florida! I loved the animal closeups! Maggie was beautiful watching the sunset, too! Loved the peek-a-boo at the Fort. Maggie was so happy when you got back! Sadie & Stanly are always happy to see us get home. Wise decision to let the bad weather pass. Being retired is great! So much love to y’all! ❤️🙏🏻Safe travels! Jane from SC
We love that Maggie is excited when we return we try to show we are excited too. She brings us so much joy. Glad you have that joy too.
We were there last week love Fort Desoto! A great place for sanddollars and seashells at North Beach!
O wow, I would have love seeing the sand dollars and all the seashells. There weren’t many seashells when we were there.
Awesome thank you for sharing. I just snagged a night at Fort DeSoto for next month. I am hoping to get more nights.
Keep looking, that’s what we did. It seemed like early morning was the best time to look but we ended up looking all through the day. Good luck you will love it.
@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle yep I found the site at 4am. :)
Beautiful place thanks for sharing. I told my wife on our next trip to visit our Daughter we was going to go to Fort DeSoto
It is a beautiful place with lots of things to do.
Wonderful video! Thank you 🧡
You are so welcome and thank you for watching.
Was that a Rocky Poteet siting? Enjoyed your trip. Add Ft. DeSoto to the bucket list. Thanks to you all, we just made reservations in Myrtle Beach State Park. Looking forward to it already. Thanks for showing the path forward!
We hope you like Myrtle Beach SP, don’t forget Huntington Beach SP right down the road either. Ft. DeSoto has always been on our bucket list and it did not disappoint. Thanks for watching.
So excited we finally got a spot for a week in June. It will be our first visit to Fort DeSoto!
You are going to love it… so many things to do and enjoy. Have fun!
We just left the Texas coast , lots of places to drive on beaches. We left Arkansas in freezing rain on Feb 2, had good weather till this past week in Texas. The sun finally came out after 4 days and 4 days of below 40.
The weather has been all the place this year. But I guess that’s just part of if. Sounds like you had a great time in Texas. Thanks for commenting.
Your action photos of birds flying and hunting are spectacular.
Thank you! It was our first time using our “big” camera :-)
What a spot! It would be hard to stop watching all that wildlife.
Watching wildlife is one of our favorite things and we do spend a lot of time doing it when we get the chance. Thanks for watching.
So I'm listening to the music and think it sounds like Owen. So I clicked show more and Wow. Owen your voice narrating is great but singing, fantastic! One of these days I'm going to meet you. I left North Carolina in April and now live in Lakeland FL
Thank you so much for the inspiring comment, it is so much appreciated. Hope you meet you on the road, it’s one of our favorite things about having this channel.
Loved this video! The scenery, the wildlife, (have never seen white pelicans), Maggie doing “zoomies”! Hope we can snag a site at Fort DeSoto one day. The song “True Love Shines On” is beautiful, thanks so much for sharing. We will be celebrating our 55th anniversary this year and still RV. Maybe we’ll see you three out there one day!
Congratulations on 55 years together and if you are still RVing it shows an even stronger bond. Thanks so much for commenting and it would be great to see you on the road someday.
My kind of park, sit in the sun and get rid of winter crud. Happy tails Maggie girl, safe travels all. 🇺🇸
It was the first time on this trip that it was warm enough to just sit and enjoy the sunshine, it felt wonderful. Thanks for or watching.
Beautiful area of Florida for sure. Best plans are no plans or at least plans that can be revised.....Looking forward to the episodes out west. Stay Safe
Happy Trails
That’s the way we roll with very little plans that can always be changed. Thanks for watching.
Depending on when the video was made, we may have been camping there at the same time. (It was sunny and chilly too when we were there) It was our first stay at Fort DeSoto, and we will come back next year. Gorgeous park with lots to watch and do.
We were there Jan 31 - Feb 1, we are a little behind on our videos. It is a great place to stay.
@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle We were there a week after you were. We really enjoyed it and hope to return next year. 😀
Wonderful video, love the Pelican & Maggie, are you considering south Padre island @ corpus Christi in Texas, we camped on the beach there back in 2001. Beautiful area there. ❤️
We didn’t go to Padre Island since we had just been to the beach. I’ve heard it really nice. Thanks for the suggestion, we’ll have to go back.
Thank you again.. for such a Awsome...👍 video !!
Hubby and I want to watch it again....😁
Thank you ..😊🤗❤
Thank you maggie ..🐕 🤗
Thank you so much for your sweet comment, it is very much appreciated.
Been really cold here as well. Great bird shots. New Camera?
Yes… our experience with having to use our iPhones to zoom in on the great owl we got to experience convinced us that we need a camera that allows us to do a lot of optical zoom when needed. So now we have our iPhones, LAC (Little-Ass-Camera) and BAC (Big… 😂). It does a great job… now we just need to remember to take it with us when we hike and bike.
Thanks, yes we got a new camera. We got tired of seeing all this wild life and not being able to get good pictures. Hope to see you soon.
Maggie was so precious with the hamburger!! Two paws!! Stanly does the same when I eat! ❤️ This was so great! The pelicans were amazing! Great pics, Lynn! ❤️🙏🏻 Was that y’all windsurfing? 😘
I wish that was us windsurfing. I may be way to old for that. It does look like a lot of fun and we always enjoy watching.
Good job with the high five Maggie! :o)
Thank you, we appreciate you watching.
Nice! My type of living!!🙏🏾😍🚙🐾☀️🌴
It was great for sure. Thanks for watching.
One of my favorite places. I've camped there a few times. Sites facing the gulf are awesome! Egmont Key Island is gorgeous! I miss that area. I used to live near the Gandhi bridge in Tampa.
We didn’t get a spot on the water but they looked awesome. We love Edmonton Key too. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful video and editing!
Thank you, we appreciate you watching.
Have y'all ever been to Sanibel Island? It's a beautiful place along with Upper Captiva Island. It's the state's best for shelling. The sands are so white and the water is usually pretty clear at this time of the year. I hope one day y'all will visit the islands and see what I mean. Get your reservations for next winter now if you want to stay anywhere on Sanibel during the winter camping season. It's truly a place you don't want to miss out on if you're ever in S.W. Florida. Happy trails and many truly remarkable adventures await y'all.
We have been to Sanibel Island many years ago. We will put it on our list for last year.
Thank you for Another Great video. How do you guys like your new screen room ??
We really like the screen room, it’s good to have an extra place to hang out even if there’s no bug, but especially if there are bugs, and it’s small enough to carry on the ladder.
@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle what brand is the screen room ?? Thanks
Thanks for sharing this video
You are so welcome and thank you for watching.
So I get the feeling that you don't experience too much anxiety when you work on booking new places to stay. That's helpful for me, as I'll be doing this full-time soon, and finding places to stay is my top worry just now. Thanks.
We don’t worry to much about booking places to stay, I think it depends on the area you are staying. We do try to plan a couple of weeks out when we know we are going to be in a certain area. We use Harvest Host, Campendium and IOverlandder mostly to find places to stay also RVParky is great for planing a trip. Good luck on going full time. Let us know if you have any questions.
@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle Anxiety is based on the difference between doing it, and just thinking about how to do it. I appreciate your suggestions, and I'll (try to) stop worrying so much. Van on!
50 years ago, we would clam and throw the castnet for Mullet about where you had lunch. Than we would take them back to my aunt who would then fry the fish up and make hush puppies and grits on Saturday nights Loved it out there .
Man that sounds good… thanks for sharing your awesome memory.
Ft De Soto such a neat place to spend time. The pelicans and herons are such fun to watch. It always amazes me how they fly so effortlessly in ground effect even dipping their wingtips in the water! All that and massive cheeseburgers! GPS location for the next burger grilling, please. 😉😉 Or maybe I’ll just ask Maggie. Her nose and tail will let me know. Thanks!
We love watching the pelicans too, especially them diving into the water, it is so amazing. That cheeseburger did look pretty massive but he sure was good and Maggie approved.
I wish Ft De Soto campground was a secret. It's almost impossible to get a good site there. So glad you could extend your stay. Oscar Scherer is one of my favorite state parks, especially if you can get those coveted spots along the river
We’ve been trying to get in there for several years, for some reason we just got lucky. We got lucky with Oscar Scherer, but since we have Maggie we couldn’t get on the river, they do look really nice.
@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle so happy for you. A couple of those river spots extend down to a little peninsula jutting into the water. That's on my bucket list.
Ft Desoto is our favorite local park. We were just there a few weeks ago! Question for you, we just got an Insta 360 ONE X2 camera as well. You did a great job with the editing. What program do you edit the 360 footage in?
We love Ft Desoto too! None of the footage from this trip is on the One X2 360… it’s on the Insta360 Go 2… the little camera. On 360 footage I always edit the footage with the Insta360 app by bring up the part that lets you spin around pointing the phone and repositioning. Works best sitting in a swivel office chair too btw!
Chicken salad chicks is one of our favs. Unfortunately they don’t have any here in vero beach, Fl.
It seems a lot of the Chicken Salad Chicks have closed, which makes me sad. We always look for them along our route, our favorite too.
You were just in my neighborhood. Sooty I missed you.
Sorry we missed you too. We love your neighborhood.
You need to keep that saying for you're cooking that includes your last name. Very creative!
Thanks, glad you noticed that.
Can you share where you got the bags you put on your Rad rack? I need something like that to store "stuff" in when we ride and not have so much in the backpack. Great video, hope you make it to Texas later. We're still stuck up here in Ft Worth in the cold.
I put them in our Amazon page under “Bike Items” here the link to our page if interested www.amazon.com/shop/VanTrekkingLifestyle. Also, here’s the name of the bags ROCKBROS Bike Trunk Bag Bicycle Rack Rear Carrier Bag Commuter Bike Luggage Bag Pannier with Rain Cover. Thanks for watching.
Loved the music! Can you share who did the song about wasting time?
The song is Let’s Waste Some Time by Chester Malone.
BTW, photos were awesome!!!
Thanks, new camera.
Wondering what were the dates you were camping there? Beautiful
We were at Ft. DeSoto Jan 30 - Feb 1. It was a beautiful time to be there. Thanks for watching.
I could sit and watch pelicans all day long. Thank you for showing us the white ones we have never seen them before. This was a great video and a good lesson that you have to be flexible with your plans on the road. Happy tails and safe travels.
I could watch the pelicans all day too, they are so much fun, we’ve seen white pelicans one other time and it’s always a treat. Thanks so much for watching.
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Thanks for another post card from the road! It is always a treat to see what you guys are up to. Hoping y’all are finding many opportunities for wasting some time. 😉 Things are hopping a little bit in NW FL as the build up to Mardi Gras Day approaches. We briefly considered a run down to Pensacola Beach and Ft. Pickens but sanity prevailed . There will be crowds of people down there for a Mardi Gras parade and much merriment. So not today. That’s the beauty of living where we do. In a few more days (3) it’ll all be over until next year (the Insanity that is Mardi Gras, that is) and we can go out to a peaceful, serene beach. Temps are supposed to be 77+ Looking forward to next week’s chapter in lifestyles of the Van Trekkers! Byeee! Maggie is a peach! Give her an extra bite of burger, just because she’s too cute!
We’ve been around Florida during Marci Gras and it is very crowded and a lot of fun, but you know how much we like crowds. Sounds like you are having prefect weather. See you next Sunday or maybe Tuesday.
Question..make, model of electric bikes, and would you buy the same again
We have Rad mini fat tire step thru. We’ve had the bikes for over two years and have been really happy with them. However, there are so many new one out there we may have to do more research before I could say we would buy the same ones. I will say they are a great company and have awesome customer support. It’s a big decision… good luck
Hardly a secret. It is very difficult to get into Fort de Soto, camp ground. Certainly beautiful and well worth the effort.
You are correct it’s not really a secret… we’ve been trying to get in there for years. Thanks for watching.
Lick, slurp, paw. 🐶
Lol! Tooo funny 😁
Wasn’t she cute, we laughed so had watching her. Thanks for watching.
James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards!!! Oorah!
One of favorites for sure.
His Live album is fantastic. One of my favs…not so much for Deb.
Why doesn’t Maggie get her own burger?!
Poor sweetie. 😊
I try not to give her a lot of table food, Owen not so much. He thinks she should be able to get a bite of everything she wants and Maggie agrees with him.
Your burger may be better than 5 Guy's, but I'd like to see you make better fries on the Blackstone.
There’s not way we would ever attempt to make better fries… they are the best.
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Thank you!
Consider always make ng Maggie her own little muttburger..I do for my 100 lb black lab Piper
That’s a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
Maggie is not too spoiled is she? Hehe
She is very spoiled and deserves to be spoiled even more.
Big Bend … hmmmm
Yes, Big Bend.
nooo stop bringing all the tourists
So sorry.
Great video. Remember there are 100's of free campgrounds within the water management districts. Matter fact I do believe you made a video on them not sure. They are free and very nice to boondock.
We did make several videos on them several years back and found them a great places to stay.