Not in love with Love Bugs

Today (Friday) Rainy and I left home about 9:00 a.m. to make the 2 hour drive to Sebring to pick up our new pop-up camper. Our conversations were mostly about places of interest that we want to see and how we can get there by mostly avoiding interstates. As we left the coast (we live five minutes from the Gulf of Mexico) and was getting further away from the sea breeze we began hearing the pitter patter of what sounded like a medium size rain shower. But no it wasn't rain it was Love Bugs. Millions of them splattering themselves on our windshield, grill, luggage rack and side view mirrors.

For you fortunate ones that haven't seen this phenomenon Love Bugs is the term for a mating ritual where a male and female good for nothing black flying insect attach themselves to each other(god know where)and fly around in swarms until the female is inpregnated and then the male dies.

Anyway, we had to stop twice on the way there and once on the way back to wash and scrape the dead and nearly dead bugs off the windshield. Yuck, yuck it was horrible!

We got home with our new pop-up mid afternoon and took it to our son Matt's house and parked it in his yard. Sounds simple right? Wrong. Once Rainy and I decided how and where we were going to park it I drove and she navigated me through his swale and as I pulled it up the small incline the electrical connector dug into the ground and broke the cover. We did get it parked but we weren't satisfied with leaving it there more than overnight because it was on an incline and, although we had it chocked and the hitch lowered we didn't feel that it was the best place for it. So we called around and found a place just down the road from our house to store it until we leave. Big day, some mistakes, but all in all a great adventure. Until tomorrow....