{"id":7049,"date":"2018-11-09T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T03:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:20:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T16:20:43","slug":"paradise-oaks-rv-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/09\/paradise-oaks-rv-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Escapees Chapter 57 rally"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Wash<\/a>

Wash and wax at Paradise Oaks<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Live<\/a>

Live auction<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Losing<\/a>

Losing plane<\/p><\/div>\n

We spent 5 nights at the Paradise Oaks RV Resort<\/a> in Bushnell FL.\u00a0 The reason for being there was the Escapees Chapter 57<\/a> (the “Florida Sun Gators” chapter) rally.\u00a0 We were newly-minted members of this chapter, having just forked over our $20 for a 5-year membership.\u00a0 Attending the rally cost another $30.\u00a0 But for the total of $34 ($30 plus the $4 for this year) we got to meet a bunch of great RV people, eat lots of food, bid on some charity auction items (more on this later) and make some paper airplanes.<\/p>\n

Yes, one of the big events was a paper airplane building\/flying contest.\u00a0 I thought this would be right up my engineering alley but I failed miserably.\u00a0 I just couldn’t get it to fly in a straight line or for a long distance. Since I didn’t get any awards I had to settle for having fun.<\/p>\n

It was a very good time and we are glad we went.<\/p>\n

We also took the opportunity to give the RV a wash and wax (see the photo above). It had been a tough trip south and was pretty darn dirty. I think we carried mud all the way from Chenango Shores. It looks great now and won’t be embarrassing when we take up residence in our new home in Ft Myers.<\/p>\n

\"Becky<\/a>

Becky and the chapter flag<\/p><\/div>\n

Paradise Oaks is a very nice park. However, it is really two different parks: a park for long-term residents and a park for transients. Yes, they share the common facilities, which are very nice – a large meeting room and several smaller meeting rooms, a huge exchange library, an exercise room, a laundromat, a pool room and a dog park. It has a beautiful swimming pool with hot tub, 4 pickleball courts, shuffleboard courts and a 9-hole disc golf course. I tried the disc golf course and it wasn’t very good. Two holes appeared to be missing and none of the tees were marked, so I will call it a disc golf course in name only.<\/p>\n

However, the transient area has one thing that the residential area does not have: ear-splitting train noise. A heavily used rail line runs very close to the boundary of the transient area and those trains run 24\/7. Several times during our stay I was awakened at 3 or 4 am with a loud blast of a train horn that seemed to be next door.<\/p>\n

The transient area also lacks one thing that the residents have: cable TV. We had no cable TV and almost no OTA TV. Two useless English channels and one even more useless Spanish channel.<\/p>\n

Both areas had some nice sunsets.<\/p>\n

\"Nice<\/a>

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

We spent 5 nights at the Paradise Oaks RV Resort in Bushnell FL.\u00a0 The reason for being there was the Escapees Chapter 57 (the “Florida Sun Gators” chapter) rally.\u00a0 We were newly-minted members of this chapter, having just forked over our $20 for a 5-year membership.\u00a0 Attending the rally cost another $30.\u00a0 But for the … 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":[41,4,5,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-places","category-rvparks","category-ts4"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1PH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","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=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}