Tuesday 4/17/2018     It was still cold when we left South Carolina Tuesday morning. Hopefully, our next stop which is in Florida will be warmer. We traveled 307 miles today and are spending the next three nights in The Osceola National Forest. The Osceola National Forest is made up of approximately 200,000 acres of large pine trees and cypress swamps in northeastern Florida and is about 50 miles west of Jacksonville. Now that I'm 62 I'm eligible for an America The Beautiful Senior Lifetime Pass. This pass covers entrance fees at national parks and national wildlife refuges as well as standard amenity fees at national forests and grasslands, and at lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Plus I get 50% off camping fees. We stayed at The Ocean Pond Campground which only cost us $12.00 per night. The Ocean Pond Campground is a very nice campground. The sites are first-come-first-serve but because we were here during the off-season we didn't have any trouble finding a site. In fact, the site we chose was really nice. We had water and electric and it was right next to the lake. The whole place was very well maintained and very peaceful. I love this kind of camping! After we set up we drove into Lake City (about 20 minutes away) to fuel up and have dinner.