After a lazy morning waiting for the temperature to rise, we had an early lunch and headed out to Kissimmee State park about 20 miles away. On the way there we passed a large orange juice plant, at a rough guess there were upwards of 300 18 wheelers, full of oranges, in the place waiting to be unloaded with more arriving every few minutes…. that’s a lot of oranges!
The main reason for going to the park was to see the Cow Camp. This is a re-creation of an 1870’s camp that was set up all around south – central Florida. These camps would be about 15 miles apart (the distance that they could drive cows in one day). There was an old cow-hand there who loved to talk and gave a good description of life as a cowboy. In some ways I found the talk to be a little disconcerting as the guy had settled himself well into the 1870’s and no mention was made of present day (his future).
After the cow camp we went and drove around the state park camp ground. The sites there were way better than the last couple we stayed as they are in the woods, not in an open field. The only down-side for us, if we stayed more than a week, is the fact that there is no sewer hook up. They have electric and water, we have Satellite and internet, so that’s ok, but to dump the waste tanks we’d have to pack up the trailer, drive to the campsite entrance dump the tanks and return to the site, probably a four hour exercise.