We are settled in here in Okeechobee (which I, unfortunately, tend to pronounce as Ochee-Ko-Bee) and so far we really like it. The RV park is beautiful, spotlessly clean and well landscaped. We are at the edge of town, near hotels and McDonald’s, but the area is surprisingly rural - across the fence from our 5-star RV resort is a field of cows. But the cows don’t bother anyone and some beautiful cranes usually share the field with them.
The town is small; they say there are about 6,000 people here but it doesn’t look like that many to me. Unfortunately it has succumbed to the blight of fast food restaurants and Walmart. I know we haven’t been everywhere yet, but so far we haven’t found a nice dinner restaurant. But the sun is shining and it looks like there are a lot of biking and fishing possibilities, and we really like the people here. A couple of the guys in the park taught us a card game called Hand and Food. It’s played with FIVE decks; each hand has 13 cards and when you play out all of those, you have to pick up another hand (called a Foot) of 13 more cards. Lots of fun, even though Randy and his card partner won not only every game, but every hand. Must be beginner’s luck - I’ll get him next time!
We already took one side trip to the nearby town of Stewart. It’s a small, pretty tourist town on the eastern edge of Florida. Florida tends to get cloudy in the afternoon and the last of the hurricane season is blowing itself out, so the water was really choppy. We got in a good walk, around town and under the bridge with traffic going overhead.
Looking forward to really exploring this part of Florida!
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