Country for old men

It seems that RVing is an entertainment for seniors. And we started our journey from the state for seniors. You'd think otherwise with Disney, Sea World, Universal Studios and all the other parks for kids, but wherever you look the avarage age is way above 60.

Activity board at camping

It's not all that bad. We expected nights at camgrounds to be all about bbq and beer, meanwhile all the activities take place during the day, and it's mostly walking, throwing horseshoes (looks like favourite game here) and dancing on Saturday at noon (maybe we're getting old but it's quite nice after all nights with way-too-loud disco music at Masurian campgrounds back in Poland). 

Throwing horseshoes

So we stayed at Southern Palms RV Resort near Eustis in Lake County Fl for a week. We even had enough time to go for a walk around Eustis. There's vintage car ralley, most of people we meet there probably had personal experience with exhibits when they were young. In a local cafe we see a birthday party, singing "Sto lat" - Polish version of "Happy birthday" which translates literally into "Hundred years", might be considered rude as birthday girl was eighty-something.

By the way, we take back what we wrote before, that we're not interesting for anyone. We just went to more social place - swimming pool next to laundry room, and for two hours of washing and drying we were the center of attention for seniors who just loved our kids and were very curious about our plans. If the average age was closer to 40 we would be probably "couple with spoiled brats", but as everyone was comparing Maciek and Kalina to their grandkids who they don't see too often, then our children were the cutest and the sweetets...

Shuffle board

Of course there are also disadventages. Five minutes after we hang our sheets out a lady in a golfcart came, saying in a nice but strict way that it's not allowed to hang anything (nobody said anyhting about the laundry a day before, but maybe they just didn't notice). Looking for a campground we found surprisingly many places that we couldn't go to because they were "For adults 55+ only". At the parking lots there are many more spaces for handicapped than in other states. People on electric wheelchairs are everywhere (however some of them look like they use it for convenience, not because thay have to, which bring to mind the ending of a movie "WALL-E"). On the other hand those scooters next to Wal-mart are sometimes really tempting... 

Oxygen delivery

You can like it or not, but comparing to Poland, where elders "should'n", "It's inappropriate", and it's best to just sit and wait for death to come, Florida is positively shocking. Maybe it's our personal frustrations talking, but we think it's not all about the money. Yes, of course, there are some active seniors in Poland, but most of people over 50 either try to be invisible or complain about their difficult situation. And it can be different. Most of seniors here are active, they just want to do something. They want to go for a walk, play bingo or throw horshoes, put a swimsuit on and excercise in a pool or move a heavy wooden table to move it from the way of Polish couple's trailer (this last one was a 70-year-old lady, when Ola tried to move the same table later, she was really shocked by how heavy it was).

Our super-strong neighbour's trailer

Seeing how active and how nice people are we can forgive long list of strict campgrounds rules. Once we get to staying around forty-somethings and their screaming kids we'll probably miss Florida.

Anyway, we already know what we want to do when we retire:)