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Beachin' with Suzy

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  If you are willing to camp, you can score a wonderful, inexpensive beach vacay. With my senior pass I camped for 20$ a night at Fort Pickens Camp Ground near Pensacola down a long, narrow, lovely peninsula bordered to the south by the Gulf of Mexico and to the north by Pensacola Bay.  I did get lucky on finding a site for 2 nights without reserving in advance much further than I did. You usually have to reserve way ahead. (You can sometimes get a site for one night and then a different site for another single night.) Suzy (my Australian Shepherd) and I slept in my van. We kept cool because I have a jackery power source that runs a fan. The jackery also charges my phone. I used the campsite power to heat water for coffee and oatmeal. Yes I got a little tired of eating oatmeal and nuts and fruit and peanut butter and cheese and tuna fish, but I was trying to keep it simple. My special treat was a kale salad I brought from home and kept in the icebox with some yummy stout beer. Suzy tho