😯THE FLOOD AT PEACE RIVER RV RESORT /🚛 HDT / RV Travel Day / RV Life / RV Camping / Florida

A completely custom RV semi-trailer that we designed and asked SpaceCraft to build took 7 months to bring it to fruition.

Our extreme completely custom 5th wheel is built on a semi-trailer chassis with air suspension and air brakes. Completely loaded it weighs 42,000 lbs rolling down the highway. And we do roll down the highway nearly every week. You see, we believe that if your home has wheels they should be used.

Traveling from Orlando RV Resort to Peace River Thousand Trails is a short drive but we had concerns about the park since we knew many people had their reservations cancelled due to the floods from Hurricane Ian. We stop at Chesters Chicken after someone was nice enough to let us cross 3 lanes of traffic. Sondra needs to notify me sooner of a change of direction! We get run down by an nice person who has many questions about the HDT and Smart car.

1 minute mark:
Leave Orlando RV Resort and head out onto the wide open roads...after a U-turn, of course.

6 minute mark:
A greeting by the scenic and peaceful Peace River and we survey the flood recovery efforts by the park. The RV resort looks amazing and they have done a great job with the clean up. The park is empty and only at 50% full since they haven't yet opened all the affected sites.

9 minute mark:
We check out the RV resort and go by the pool, have a sundae on Sunday, watch the Mardi Gras Parade pass by, Sondra gathers candy and we see how high the flood waters rose. It's unbelievable how far into the campground it got.

12 minute mark:
We run some errands in Lakeland, Florida and celebrate my birthday! We have a really good meal at Bonefish Grill and go see a movie. It feels like a private viewing for my birthday because the theatre was empty.

15 minute mark:
Go shopping at Walmart and have fun with some spicy names, get more Amazon packages at the Eckerds drug store, find a "secret" room in a farmers market that is really "cool" and bike around the campground some more.

19 minute mark:
New bike racks and taking a bike ride to Pioneer Park to see the wildlife refuge is informative and disappointing since we find out it's closed indefinitely. Sondra needs her wildlife "fix" so we head to the river and try to find alligators near the RV resort.

25 minute mark:
Some drone footage and flying down the river is pretty cool as we spot several alligators near the shore. Two are just hanging out but one is actually feeding on an animal. We heard a lot of crunching! yuck! The river is so peaceful in the afternoon and we really enjoy the area.

30 minute mark:
We head over to the Florida Flywheelers and Antique Show for the day. Wow! It was very cool and we'll be back to boondock next time at the show! Lots of tractors, flywheels in action, golf carts all over the place and more stuff to buy than you can shake a stick at as it reminded us of Quartzsite and a Renaissance Festival that meets on the farm.

35 minute mark:
We load the Smart car onto our truck, Voyager and get ready to head on to our next stop which is in Eustis, Florida.

RV Living at it's best.

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RV Camping is where we hang out.

We like to Switch it Up between resorts, campgrounds and boondocking spots as we travel around America.

Our journey is the destination. We want to share in our experiences in discovery of What's Next.

I get my music from:
Epidemicsound.com
Tracks:
What my MaMa Said by Humble Hey
We're Taking Off by Wildflowers
Watchers and Doers by Christopher Malley
Top of the Morning by Victor Lundberg
Summer Knot by American Legion
My Heart Takes Over by Eden Maze feat: Jacob Alm
All is Said and Done by Gamma Skies

Amazon Shop (no extra charge to you)
A convenient way to see (or buy) the items you see in the video's which may help in your adventure.
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We use the TSD card for diesel fuel and save a bundle each time we fill up our Big Rig. We also use it to fill up our Onan generator.

The big blue boards (XL version) we use sometimes to get us "un-stuck" is from:
Gotreads.com

Vehicles:
2016 Volvo VNL780 "Voyager"
2016 Smart fortwo "Pathfinder"
2019 SpaceCraft Custom built semi-trailer 5th wheel "Orion"
2023 Thor Magnitude XG32 Class C "Curiosity"
2017 Jeep Wrangler Sahara "Artemis"

Power system:
3250 watts of solar with Panasonic panels
30.1 KWH of Lithium batteries
2- 4K watt Magnum Inverters deliver power as if we are on shore power
2- 4K watt 240v Cotek Inverters deliver additional power for our LG Mini split HVAC and stove

Coachnet is our roadside assistance company we use but hopefully we don't use them too often. LOL

We are not sponsored by Whataburger but I do enjoy them anytime I can get my hands on one. They used to be just out of Texas but they have expanded.