February 27 - March 1, 2014. Big Turkey, A Long Hike and Spring Training Baseball.

Catherine gets up early and likes to start the camping day with a morning fire. Thursday morning was no exception and so we woke up to see Catherine sitting in front of a campfire. With coffee in hand, we joined her. It wasn't long before something else joined us...a very large tom turkey strutted into our campsite, heading straight for us. We sat perfectly still as it approached. I was wishing that a camera was near but unfortunately the picture of that bold bird slowly strutting through our campsite will have to remain in my head.

On Friday, our last day at Lake Kissimmee, we decided to hike one of the longer trails, The North Loop Trail, about 5 miles in length. Hiking here is more like walking as the trails are very flat. Having said that, after walking 5 miles, I did feel like I had been hiking. Hot showers, laundry, dinner, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy rounded out the day.

                                                       

Since we had tickets to the Baltimore vs Toronto ball game in Sarasota, we left  Kissimmee around 9:30 to allow for the heavy Saturday traffic. Although there was a lot of traffic and several areas where traffic crawled in 70 mph zones, we got to the ball park early enough to get a good parking spot. It was a great game for Toronto fans up until the 8th inning when Baltimore rallied to score 8 runs and win the game 9-7. 

After a stop at the grocery store we drove to Myakka State Park and settled in for the night, exhausted after today's drives and from sitting in the hot sun for 9 innings.