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We drove into Homestead and decided to spend the night at the Florida City RV Park. The park is run by the city and has over 300 sites with approx. 99% permanent residents. Many of the campers are really old and run down, while others were big,
new and pristine. Some areas of the park were a little scary but we decided to stay anyway. We needed full hook-ups and at $28.00 a night it was a bargain.
After settling in and getting the laundry started we took Jewel for a walk and met very interesting people. One couple lived in a small run down RV and were excited to see new faces. They are both deaf but had some language ability and we were able to have a conversation with them. They have five children and brought us a picture of the kids. They only see the children on weekends because they live with the grandparents. These people didn’t have much but seemed very happy.
Around the corner we ran into four men who seemed enthralled with Jewel. They all live in the park in trailers owned by their boss who was there with his dog. The dog was left in a shopping cart at Home Depot and is now happy
and ten years old. The boss man told us he owned four trailers in the park, two lots in the Keys, a home in the Keys and two businesses. He offered to let us stay on one of the lots for free but we didn’t take him up on his offer. 
Back at the MH I finished the laundry and settled in to watch TV. There were tons of sirens in the area and then a Med Flight appeared over the CG landing in the lot across the street. We checked out the situation and a woman with a small child and dog told us there are daily flights out of that lot. She then proceeded to tell us she lives at the park and her child has had 19 surgeries in the last three years. He was born with a series of birth defects including reversal of all of his organs. Despite all that he was pretty robust and well adjusted. I’m sure if we were to stay there for several days there would have been more people to meet and stories to hear.
We drove into Homestead and decided to spend the night at the Florida City RV Park. The park is run by the city and has over 300 sites with approx. 99% permanent residents. Many of the campers are really old and run down, while others were big,
new and pristine. Some areas of the park were a little scary but we decided to stay anyway. We needed full hook-ups and at $28.00 a night it was a bargain.After settling in and getting the laundry started we took Jewel for a walk and met very interesting people. One couple lived in a small run down RV and were excited to see new faces. They are both deaf but had some language ability and we were able to have a conversation with them. They have five children and brought us a picture of the kids. They only see the children on weekends because they live with the grandparents. These people didn’t have much but seemed very happy.
Around the corner we ran into four men who seemed enthralled with Jewel. They all live in the park in trailers owned by their boss who was there with his dog. The dog was left in a shopping cart at Home Depot and is now happy
and ten years old. The boss man told us he owned four trailers in the park, two lots in the Keys, a home in the Keys and two businesses. He offered to let us stay on one of the lots for free but we didn’t take him up on his offer. Back at the MH I finished the laundry and settled in to watch TV. There were tons of sirens in the area and then a Med Flight appeared over the CG landing in the lot across the street. We checked out the situation and a woman with a small child and dog told us there are daily flights out of that lot. She then proceeded to tell us she lives at the park and her child has had 19 surgeries in the last three years. He was born with a series of birth defects including reversal of all of his organs. Despite all that he was pretty robust and well adjusted. I’m sure if we were to stay there for several days there would have been more people to meet and stories to hear.
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