July 12th &13th Lakeland, Fl.

July 12th &13th Lakeland, Fl.
Spent the morning of the 12th at Nokomis State Beach for one last swim of the trip.  This beach has to be one of the best we had visited.  We got their early and there was a fitness class going on at the beach.  Oh well!  Early afternoon we headed north east for Lakeland Fl to visit our long time friends Joan and Frank Laico.  We have known Frank and Joan since the early 70's when we did summer theatre together.  I actually met Elaine one evening after shortly getting out of the Navy thanks to Frank arranging a group get together.  Frank and Joan have a house on a golf course and have been in Florida for the past dozen years.  We were only going to spend one night at their house, but the AC on the RV acted up again and we spent two nights there so that a mechanic that Frank uses could look over the system.  We had a very nice dinner out on the second night at a local Thai restaurant.
Here is the fitness class at 9am on Nokomis Beach.  They even had their own P/A system.

Frank and Joan with Elaine and I on their back screened in patio.

A view of the golf course from the screened in patio.

Frank took us on a little tour of Lakeland and showed us where the Detroit tigers train in the winter.

Posing with John Hutchinson of Johns Auto Services.  He added about a half a pound of freon and showed me how he leaves the ignition on to trouble shoot the ac system.  This was key to later allowing me to come up with a method which got us home with AC working.  When the AC would stop, I would stop the rv, shut off the engine but leave the ignition on.  Then I would push on the compressor clutch connector until I heard a click,  and then start the engine and have ac for a few more hours of drive time.

Elaine posing in front of their home with Joan and Frank.

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