Day 11 Travel Day -- Okeechobee to Silver Springs (near Ocala)

A long day of travel -- it took us 6 hours to drive what the GPS said would take 4 hours.  Lots of traffic backed up through small towns.  We're at a campground just across the road from Silver Springs State Park, known for the glass bottom boat rides. The nice lady who checked us in gave us a recommendation for a quaint seafood restaurant:  "Lena's Seafood".  We got set up at our site and drove there.  It was a really fun little restaurant with good boardwalk type seafood.             

We skipped lunch on the road and when we saw all the cars in the little parking lot at only 3:45 p.m. we knew we'd hit on a good one.  This was a bustling little place!

                                                                             

We met a nice lady at our campground this evening -- Laura and her husband have a permanent modular home at the campground and they stay here for 3 or 4 months during the winter. She gave us some great recommendations of things to do in this area.

                                                                                            

Esther --  I took this picture of a Kentucky license plate.  Earlier today we were in back of a Tennessee plate and Vernon was recalling when he was a youngster some cereals boxes had little state license plates that were attached to the backs that you could collect.  I thought probably you would remember that too.  Vernon said he "really, really wanted the Tennessee plate" because it was the only one in the shape of the state.  He said he waited for probably 2 years before he finally got it.  I love his stories of "back when". 

Tomorrow:  glass bottom boat ride?