Today our trip was fairly uneventful except for one Florida State Patrol Officer who followed us for a while and then watched us go off interstate 10 to a rest area. When we reentered the interstate after our bathroom break and dog walk we got back on the road and reentered interstate 10 heading east where he followed us from his perch in the median. He road next to us for several minutes checking out our swivel wheel trailer and then road behind us for several miles. I just kept waiting for him to turn on his lights and pull us over. In Florida triple towing is illegal but I don't consider my swivel wheel trailer triple towing. I have documentation to try and prove my case but never had to use it since after a few miles he went around us and we never saw him again. We think he must have radioed information about our plates and our trailer to the home base and got something back saying it wasn't considered triple towing since the swivel wheeled trailer is technically considered part of the fifth wheel. At least that is how we and Fast Master Products, and the state of Indiana see it.
Here are some pictures of our campsite accommodations in Florida. This is just some of the sacrifices you make to get temperatures that are about 10 degrees warmer than Gulf Shores. We know Okeechobee will be a lot closer than Gulf State Park but we are hoping for a few more feet than this.
The sewer hose dump location is about four feet from the picnic table. Just a little too close for me eating my bologna samwich at the picnic table. For those who don't know I love bologna sandwiches. I took them in my lunch pail every day for almost 10 years while working at Clevpak and Westinghouse. Janet would try to give me a treat by packing ham sandwiches but after about two days I would tell her to please go back to bologna. To this day I still love them.
This is our bikes and motorcycle loaded up behind the 5th wheel on the swivel wheeled trailer. It gets alot of attention from people in the rv parks we stay at and also from the Florida State Police today but he must of determined he had better things to do than to pull us over. While this setup may look a little like the Beverly hillbillies I am actually pretty anal about the truck, the fifth wheel, and the swivel wheeled trailer. We have spent thousands of extra dollars on new wheels and tires for all three vehicles to make sure we are as safe as possible. I even changed the tire on the swivel wheel trailer a couple of days ago due to a small crack in the side wall of the tire. I haven't had any accidents or incidents while towing and I don't want any.
