My granddad was one of the first to snowbird in Bonita Springs in the 50’s. Pulled into a motel with his trailer and asked the guy to let him park for the night. Eventually became a 200 trailer park. ON the Imperial River
He wintered in Florida in mobile homes every year for the next 40 years. 3 places in all. (swallowed up by developers)
Always on the water, with access to the Gulf.
Many fine memories of fishing for grouper just out of sight of land in a 22 foot outboard, and coming in with a 33 gallon trashcan full of fish and assorted large ones on the deck
Yeah, that’s what I’m talkin’ about. Good stuff. Digger, I’m sure you remember those trailers of the 50s. We had moved to NM from TX and it was oil and gas country (still is) so folks were pretty mobile (in the 50s), it was a big deal when a family bought a “10-Wide”, like a whole new world.
Lots of huntin’, fishing (on the San Juan River—Four Corners), great place for a kid but hard to make a living for parents.
SteelTrap’s “supplemental watering” of tomato plants LOL!! I can relate to that...