{"id":6095,"date":"2017-11-25T21:55:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T02:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2017-11-30T10:32:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:32:16","slug":"ste3-hop-9-sarasota-fl-to-naples-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/25\/ste3-hop-9-sarasota-fl-to-naples-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"STE3 Hop 9: Sarasota FL to Naples FL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"STE3<\/a>

STE3 Hop 9<\/p><\/div>124 miles via I-75, FL 84 and US 41, with a slight detour near the Ft Myers airport. Cumulative tow miles: 1608. Truck miles: 128. Cumulative truck miles: 2103.<\/p>\n

Thus endeth the Second Trip East (STE). The last hop was short and almost uneventful. The minor event was a stop to check the sewer hose in the bed of the truck which appeared to be working loose. It was fine, but the exit I took did not allow me to get back onto I-75, so I had to detour down the local airport access road to reach the next on ramp. No big deal.<\/p>\n

Our one night in Sarasota was at the Sun-N-Fun RV Resort<\/a>. I tried to book a night at another Sun Communities property but it did not have a pull-through available, so the reservation clerk – shared among all Sun properties – took it upon herself to find one nearby at the Sun-N-Fun. It was just an overnight, so just about anything would have been fine, but I am glad we got to see Sun-N-Fun. The word that best describes this place: incredible.<\/p>\n

Our site was very nice – long and wide, great cable TV. But it is the facilities that distinguish this campground. A huge pool, with a very large waterslide, a poolside bar and an adjacent restaurant. Tennis courts, pickleball courts, lawn bowling, horseshoes, mini-golf and shuffleboard. A covered playground. Activities buildings galore. Woodworking, watercolors, fitness center, card rooms, crafts. Just incredible.<\/p>\n

And very, very expensive. We finally found a place more expensive than Gulf Waters. A premium RV site for January runs nearly $2300.<\/p>\n

So we made it to our winter home. Over 9,000 miles of travel in 111 days. It will be nice to be able to stay put for a while.<\/p>\n

\"Lawn<\/a>

Lawn bowling<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Shuffleboard\"<\/a>

Shuffleboard<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Covered<\/a>

Covered playground<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

124 miles via I-75, FL 84 and US 41, with a slight detour near the Ft Myers airport. Cumulative tow miles: 1608. Truck miles: 128. Cumulative truck miles: 2103. Thus endeth the Second Trip East (STE). The last hop was short and almost uneventful. The minor event was a stop to check the sewer hose … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,4,7,5,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-ste"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1Aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6108,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}