Mon - Feb 26/18

It rained last evening heavily for about half an hour last night (after the blog was published). Naturally, it put us back to sleep quickly.

Today will be a C.C. (Carbon Copy) of the past week and it will be "Ditto" until the end of this week.

I spent the morning calculating when we have to return to Canada. We are limited by our "Out of Country" Health Insurance which is limited to 95 days. It was continuous (year round) before we retired at age 65. Then when they know we can use it year round, they limit it. (grin)

Since we entered the USA on Dec 9/17 we will have to return by Mar 13/18. We have to be in our home province for 24 hours then our insurance refills for another 95 days of coverage. Some folks have to return every 30 days to keep coverage. Some just fly into an airport in their province, stay in the hotel overnight and return by air (24 hours later).

Going home is a lot cheaper than paying thousands of dollars for additional coverage. This is a "Pain in the Butt!" Honestly, we don't understand their logic. Isn't there a lot more risk travelling thousands of miles home than staying where we were for the extra few days that would be required to go home and then return.

After lunch I went to the office to check on reservations for next year. Julie (as always) provided excellent information. Not a lot of sites are left. Our current one isn't. We finally decided that we will leave and go home and not return this season. By the time we would get back to OMS all the park activities would be ending. We had thought about putting the RV in storage, returning, and then travelling "Out West" in the RV. We then decided this would not be the best as we would have only a month of travel before we had to be back home for medical appointments.

We will use the time to travel more this summer. Perhaps we will finally travel to the 6 (ID, MT, WY, ND, SD & MN) contiguous states or Newfoundland (last Canadian Province) we haven't visited yet?

We also decided not to reserve for next year at OMS. Now that so many RVers have realized OMS is the Best RV Park in Central Florida the park has been booked to capacity for Jan, Feb and Mar. Now the reservations during this period of time have to be guaranteed (only exemption: Doctor's Medical Note). Every year we have tried to come on a schedule and have had to change our dates. We will hope to "Get Lucky" again next year.

We departed for "The Villages" around 4 p.m. We took our usual "Going There" (CR-19/CR-450/CR-42/SR-25) route on the less busy roads. We will use our "Well Lit" (US-27/US-441/CR-19) route for the return.

Our entertainment for today will be at the Savannah Center in the Villages featuring "Gary Puckett and The Union Gap". Their hits began in the late '60's with "Woman, Woman", "Over You", "Young Girl", "Lady Willpower" and "This Girl is a Woman Now".

The group disbanded in 1971. Gary's focus changed to acting and dancing in musicals, mostly in the L.A. area. Gary has now tapped into the "Nostalgia Market" and is touring throughout the USA in 2018 as well as a "50th Anniversary Tour in the U.K.

I'm sure they will play all their hits and we will have a great time if we don't have a sore neck from locking up to the stage from Row 3. (grin)

Our destination for supper after the show is still undecided. At the moment it is between Chili's and the "Surf ' n Turf" special at Outback.

As usual, today's blog has been pre-published due to our late return.