Hello everyone out there in the United States!! We are now in NY State and starting to head west from here. We left Tallahassee, FL April 1^st and slowly headed up the east coast up to NY, heading to Rochester, Hamlin Beach State Park. We will be visiting with family while there. We did stop at our hometown of Hammondsport, NY. Keuka Lake, one of the Finger Lakes. We got to see some friends we have not seen in over 5 years, and it was good to catch up. Unfortunately some of our other errands required extra time from us so we ran out of time to see everyone that we wanted to. Now from here we are heading West to New Mexico for our Winter hosting job at City of Rocks State Park starting in September and ending December 1^st.  Then we will head to Arizona for the remainder of the winter. I will now post some pictures that we took along the way up from Tallahassee.

Georgia State Park / Laura S. Walker State Park

Georgia State Park / Jack Hill State Park

South Carolina / Lake City / CrossRoads Resort

South Carolina / / Myrtle Beach Travel Park

North Carolina / Apex / Jordan Lake State Park

Virginia / Mount Solon / Natural Chimneys RV Park

New York / Hammondsport / Elmbois RV Park

New York / Campbell / Camp Bell Campground

***WARNING***

Lots of fun activities, but a very noisy park with many screaming kids all day and lots of barking dogs. Jodi and I really did not like this place. Too noisy!!!! UGH. If you like a lot of noise this is a place for you.

We are heading to Hamlin Beach outside of Rochester, NY. I wanted to get this out so the time heading to New Mexico would be another post. I wanted to post so everyone would know where we are now, and to see some nice pictures from Florida to NY.

Hope you like and please comment and let us know you following us. We will be in New Mexico by September. So stay in touch and we will post again soon.  

Stay safe and stay tuned.

The Bobble Head Travelers

Mark and Jodi

Hello everyone out there. Long time, no hear, right?!!

Jodi and I have been pretty busy hosting / volunteering at the Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park here in Tallahassee Florida for the past 4 months. This State Park was a plantation that was purchased by Alfred B. Maclay in 1923, 100 years ago this year. He purchased close to four thousand acres, sold off some to the surrounding areas. It now has 1,189 acres and consists of 3 parts, the recreation area for swimming, boating, picnicking, fishing, and kayaking on Lake Hall. The gardens covers 28 acres of many different flowers, plants, Live Oak trees with Spanish Moss hanging down, a reflection pool and a walled garden, The 3^rd part is about 11 miles of hiking and biking trails that go around Overstreet Lake.  It’s a beautiful park. The garden consist of assorted Japanese Camellias, Japanese Cherry, Southern Indian Azaleas, Red Buckeye, Saucer Magnolias, Sago Palm, many Live Oak trees with Spanish Moss and Resurrection Fern and many more. Too many to list. Its a State Park you need to see if you going through Tallahassee, FL off of I-10.

Some hosting duties we do is good hard work, I collect fees at the entrance booth of the park, and at times sit at the visitor center. I work sometimes outside clearing trails, raking lots of leaves and picking up trash. Jodi does all outside stuff like working in the garden weeding, transplanting plants and flowers, worked in two pollinator gardens, some trail work, raking leaves, cleaning the playground and other small stuff. We have had a great time hosting here at Maclay Gardens.

Some pictures of Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park

These Alligators were in the Park

Jodi took this picture on the left of the alligator in the garden pond. He was about 3 feet long, but looks big. The picture of the alligator on the right, one of our rangers took in the parks lake, Lake Hall. A bigger one, about 7 feet long.

The park has two lakes. One has a swimming area and a dock for boats, fishing and kayaking. The other you hike/bike around. We do not do lakes with alligators. NO THANK YOU….

Visited Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park

We went to another Florida State Park just down the road. Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park for a boat tour. This tour is a 2-mile loop downstream and back among majestic bald cypress trees, elegant wading birds and toothy alligators. Manatees are often sighted. We had a great tour guide, funny and full of information. We did see a lot of alligators and 4 manatees, but they were not that close. The movie Creature from Black Lagoon was filmed in this park back in 1954.

Here are some pictures Jodi and I took.

We are staying here till April 1^st and then heading up north to NY. We are going to stop in a few states on the way up. We plan on spending a good long month at Myrtle Beach for a vacation break, then up to Jordan Lake North Carolina to visit some friends. Making our way up to NY to see more friends and family. Then we are heading WEST for our next hosting job for winter.  We happen to find a hosing job at City of Rocks State Park, NM. Outside of Silver City, NM. We have visited that state park when we were hosts of Poncho Villa State Park in Columbus, NM, back in 2018.  We really like it out west, so we may be out here for a very long time. So this will be a quick post so everyone knows what our travel plans are from here in Florida, to up north and back out west for the next 4 months starting in April.

Will try to post again on our trip up north and out west when we can. We are sure looking forward to seeing some friends and family. Till next post, hope all is well, and stay safe. Stay tuned to see our next travel adventures.

Mark and Jodi, The Bobble Head Travelers