Port Saint Lucie, Florida

     We left the Tampa area and arrived here in Port St. Lucie on the on the 14th of July and set up in the P.S.L. RV Resort and paid for a week.  After hooking up with Mike and Patty Thornton and playing some golf today I paid for an additional 4 nights here.
     Mike Thornton was hired the same day I was hired along with our good friend Dave Naab, we all were hired by Trausch Baking Co. one the same day and became very good friends.  I remained very close to Dave even with all the miles between us (from Arizona to Illinois) via e-mail, text, and phone calls, but except for a few visits here and there lost some contact with Mike.  When he moved to Bagley, Wisconsin we visited Mike and Patty up there a few years back and then again when they were in the Quad Cities visiting family a couple of years ago.  The three of us and our wives got together for a nice dinner and drinks at that time and had a great time reminiscing days gone by.  Now Mike and Patty live here in P.S.L. Florida and as soon as we new we were heading this direction this year we knew we had to pay them a visit and reunite old friends. (they actually had a lot to do with us even heading this direction along with our Tampa family).  It's been a great few days so far and we look forward to another 4 days with them.  Our friend Dave passed away a year ago last January and he is missed dearly, we've done a lot of talking about him this week and I'm sure there will be more "Daveism's" quoted before we leave!
     We've played golf twice already and I will be playing again tomorrow with Mike and some of his buddies and then Bev and I again with Mike on Friday.  We bought Bev a new set of golf clubs last night and she used them today, will take some getting used to but she needed them and deserved them!
     Port Saint Lucie is a very nice place, with inland waters and the Atlantic very near we have seen some beautiful homes and some beautiful beaches, the humidity is the down side to visiting this time of the year.  This being the off season for Florida has been good and bad in many ways, the golf courses are pretty much wide open, the RV parks need no reservations, the roads are not congested very much.........but the humidity and heat make the air heavy and it's not very good on the joints and the arthritis in those joints!
     We have more plans this week and weekend with Mike and Patty Thornton and look forward to this time with them, as when leaving Tampa and family there it will be hard to say good-bye to Mike and Patty also, not sure when we'll get back here.  Mike and Patty are not "social media" types and
e-mail is hit and miss but I will try get Mike to keep in touch a bit more than in the past so we can continue to keep on top of each others lives.
     I miss these friends and have since moving to Arizona, that was my choice, and now I relish these times together.  I still miss and always will miss Dave and our talks, I miss when Dave and Mr. K would call, those conversations were the best!
     We pretty much have decided to head to the Keys after leaving here, all the way down to Key West, most folks tell us not to miss it as long as we/re this close........will let you know!