Freedom Folly: 3/10/15 Plant City Strawberry Festival and Lake Harris

Strawberry Shortcake for Breakfast. Yes, Breakfast!

RV Friends told us about the Plant City Strawberry Festival and since we had no plans for early March (love it) we decided to check it out. Plant City is the winter strawberry capital of the world and people from all over come to this massive festival of music and harvest.

The festival RV park was great as we could walk to the fairgrounds, but bad because the festival dumpsters were also close by drawing teams of dump trucks all night long! There was a giant carnival midway and music on 4 stages day and night. We saw Loretta Lynn, Gary Lewis (from the Playboys), Gary Puckett (Union Gap) and the lead singers from 3 Dog Night and The Turtles. The performers and crowd were old (YIKES - our age and up) but we all had a blast rocking out to the oldies.

We took in a couple of pre-season baseball games (the best kind according to Debra), visited friend Muriel H. from John's days at Sonalysts, and John's Aunt June, and cousin Kevin.

Sunset Fisherman's Cove Campground

Judy and Bill at The Hideaway

Heading east, we landed at Fisherman's Cove RV Park in Tavaras to visit John's sister, Judy. Not as packed as campgrounds in the Keys, we relished our quiet site on the golf course. The views on our walk around the lake were wonderful and we ate at an adorable lake front restaurant called The Hideaway. Enjoying the light sweet smell of orange blossoms; we picked oranges, clementine's and longdons (like kumquats) on this aptly named section of the Orange Blossom Trail. It was also delightful to meet up with Deb's cousin Terri and her family who live near Orlando.