Survivor

Well, even though I am a dedicated Survivor watcher, I couldn't remember Bob Crowley, million dollar winner of 2008 Survivor Gabon until I saw his picture. He was up against Susie and Sugar (who you may remember better!) What a cool guy, Very entertaining and at ease with an audience. His wife was helping set up chairs and she called him over to take a picture with me. He spoke to us here at the RV park this afternoon and told some interesting background stories. They actually didn't pick him because he said he couldn't lie and be deceitful. Then Jimmy Johnson who was supposed to be on got sick and they called Bob back.

I wondered about all the wild animals, they really are wild and there is no additional protection from them. Bob said that is why he was always walking with a staff, to have a little protection from snakes at least. Didn't think it would help against a gorilla though.  He said when his wife made it on for the "loved ones" show, he sent home with her all the tree mail he had collected.

There are about 400 people there working on the show and he said even Jeff sleeps in a tent. They really didn't have any food besides the rice and food they won later on (most people don't believe that for some reason)

Another story he told is when someone is voted off, they are immediately met by a psychologist to make sure they can adapt back into real life. Bob is from Maine and he has a cabin on an island. When asked if he can re adapt from gathering wood, tending fire etc he said he doubted it because as soon as he got home he was going to gather wood and cook some pancakes over an outdoor fire and then take a crap in the woods.

He and his wife have been staying here this week and he said don't hesitate to stop and ask him a question or take a picture.

 

January 15, 2011

We were driving down the pier and I laughed at this Great Blue Heron just waiting to steal some bait or a sandwich from this gentleman.

Then just when Doug decided to quit fishing this fella showed up. Doug couldn't resist sharing his last bait fish with him. They are certainly well fed. Too bad he didn't have any luck fishing. I enjoyed just sitting in the car in the sun with the seat back, I even had a little nap.

I looked it up and believe this is a Great Egret.

Arriving Florida Jan 8 2011

Ok, you know you are in Florida, when you see truck loads of oranges. And I must say the ones we've eaten so far have been delicious this year.

We brought my new power chair this year. It does everything including standing which is great for my bones to have weight bearing plus I can breath so much better when my diaphram is not always scrunched from sitting all day. The only thing holding me up is the knee pads, the bar in front is just a safety bar and makes a nice arm rest or book holder. The best part is I can drive it while standing so I can reach the upper cupboards now! whoo hoo!


Notice how much room we have for this, (although there is a lot of chair sticking out behind me that you can't see) but when I'm not in it, it is stored in front of the sofa so it cuts down on space a little. You can see the brown curtains behind me that I made to keep us warm up front while driving.

It was quite frosty when we took off at 7:45 this morning (Jan 5). The sun was just coming up over the frozen Connecticut river. But once we hit 91 we knew we were on our way. I made curtains to hang behind the seats of the motorhome this year which helped immensely in keeping the driver compartment warm. We knew it was chilly in the back of the coach because Olive slept on my lap all day long. we don't have to worry about her escaping because as soon as we stopped she woke right up and headed for the back, and as soon as we started rolling again she was right back in front.