Trailer Trash

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
                                             ~Frances Ward Weller

We've been coming to the same location in Florida for seven full winters and during all this time we have met so many wonderful and close friends.  A few years ago, a group of us went out to dinner to a place called Linger Lodge.  It's located along the Braden River and is considered as Old Florida.  As we got closer, we past some of their campground area and saw some trailers and RV's, some nice and some not so nice.  After we got into the restaurant, Barb made a comment that Mr. Cottage and I have never forgotten.  She said that we have all achieved our goal of now officially becoming trailer trash.  Keep in mind that our entire group of friends were all from the same RV resort in Sarasota and we were all living in motor homes, trailers or fifth-wheel RV's for the winter.  We all broke out in laughter after she said this.  Only a true and wonderful friend would make a comment like this to all of us!  The photo shown below is of Mr. Cottage at Linger Lodge...

The entire restaurant was filled with reptiles and other "stuff" that were no longer alive.  A very different kind of place!

One thing we loved doing with this particular group of friends was to drive to the Ringling Bridge where we parked our cars and then walked over the bridge and back again, always near sunset...

Mr. Cottage is in front with the hat on backwards and I'm next to him in the bright orange...

The view from the bridge...

And finally, another beautiful sunset as seen from the bridge!