A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 235 miles from Clermont, Florida to Adel, Georgia.
Thousand Trails
Travel from Clermont, Florida to Adel, Georgia
We drove our coach 235 miles, about four hours of driving, from Clermont, Florida to Adel, Georgia.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading northwest:
An interactive map, with potential stops marked:
Rain coming off the slide topper:
A line to leave TTO:
Citrus Tower:
Heading north on Florida’s Turnpike:
Rest stop:
A busy foodcourt:
The Villages golf cart bridge:
I-75:
A nice colored Prevost bus:
Motorcycles and wildflowers:
This car was going very slowly, with a flat tire. Just pull over!
Our coach in traffic cams:
Paladin at a rest stop:
“Thank you for visiting Florida”:
“Welcome to Georgia”:
Reed Bingham State Park:
Dam:
Arriving at our site:
Thousand Trails Orlando RV Resort
We stayed at Thousand Trails Orlando RV Resort in Clermont, Florida. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A second visit to TTO, the flagship Thousand Trails park.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-03-05
- Check out: 2024-03-10
- 5 nights
Weather:
- Mostly cloudy, some rain
- High temps ranging between 78-85°F, lows around 59-66°F
- Negligible wind, gusts to 21 MPH
Noise:
- No road noise
- No train noise
- Some neighbor noise, dogs
- Distant fireworks from Disney some evenings
Site:
- Mako 11, back in, asphalt
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
- A little unlevel, high on right; used hydraulic leveling
- Asphalt driveway about 45 feet long (plus about 30 feet of gravel behind that) by about 17 feet wide
- Weedy grass between sites about 12 feet
- Picnic table
- No fire pit
- A bunch of trash on site
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, conveniently located
- 45 PSI water, conveniently located
- Loose sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 55 Mbps down, 5-7 Mbps up, 36 ms ping
- Verizon: 18-25 Mbps down, 15 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
- AT&T: 0.1 Mbps down, 0.01 Mbps up, 500 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: none
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters only in a central location
- Package delivery to office, for $5 per package (we got a local mailbox)
We’ve done a review on Campground Reviews for TTO before, so didn’t bother doing it again.
Campground map; our site this time was in the narrow strip on the left side, above the X-ed out section:
An interactive map:
Our site; a quiet area of the park, one that would be a good choice for a longer stay:
Swamp near our site:
Cabin near our site:
Other sites:
We enjoyed some Chinese food from the local takeout restaurant:
Sunset:
Video: Disney World to Clermont, Florida motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, just 52 miles from Disney World, Florida to Clermont, Florida, including a picture-in-picture from the 360 camera on the truck being towed behind the coach.
Travel from Disney World to Clermont, Florida
We drove our coach just 52 miles, about an hour of driving, from Disney’s Fort Wilderness Campground in Disney World, Florida to Clermont, Florida.
It would actually take less than half an hour to go from Disney World to TTO (our destination), but check out time from Fort Wilderness was 11:00, and check in at TTO is very strictly not before noon, so we drove a longer route, with a fuel stop, to kill some time.
We’re planning to do this again next year, so next time we might instead wait in the Fort Wilderness overflow parking area, and go direct.
Here’s a map showing our route:
An interactive map:
Leaving the Fort Wilderness campground; we drove separately to a hitch/unhitch area, and toaded up there:
This is the overflow parking area, which might be a better place to kill half an hour, if there’s available space:
Passing the Fort Wilderness entrance:
Leaving the Disney World bubble; it’s been nice:
A Mickey-shaped power pole:
Fuel stop:
Our DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid, an additive to reduce pollutants) tank was about half full, but the DEF nozzle in our fuel lane was out of order, so we bought a Blue DEF box (for the first time):
Plane:
FL-33 highway:
Our destination, Thousand Trails Orlando:
TTO gate:
Unlike most Thousand Trails parks, at TTO arrivals go to a central area to await your turn to pick a site from a list of available ones. Since we arrived a bit after noon, there was a line of RVs waiting to get to that area:
We untoaded there:
Following our coach to a site:
Video: Ohio Key to Fort Lauderdale, Florida motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 148 miles from Ohio Key, Florida to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, including a picture-in-picture from the 360 camera on the truck being towed behind the coach.
Travel from Ohio Key to Fort Lauderdale, Florida
We drove our coach 148 miles, about three hours of driving, from Ohio Key, Florida to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading back up the Overseas Highway out of the Keys:
An interactive map:
Leaving the resort:
Heading up the Overseas Highway:
Florida’s Turnpike toll road:
Rainy:
Service plaza lunch stop:
Paladin at the service plaza:
Roadworks:
Hard Rock hotel:
Turnaround:
Our destination:
Video: Sunshine Key RV Resort and Marina campsite timelapse
A timelapse of our site in Sunshine Key RV Resort and Marina in the Florida Keys, looking towards the beach and Overseas Highway.
Encore Sunshine Key RV Resort & Marina
We stayed at Encore Sunshine Key RV Resort & Marina, in Ohio Key, Florida. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A large park in the Florida Keys.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-02-04
- Check out: 2024-02-18
- 14 nights
Weather:
- Partly cloudy; rainy in the first couple of days
- High temps 66-76°F, lows around 61-74°F
- Windy most days, gusts to 32 MPH
Noise:
- Significant highway noise
- No train noise
- Negligible neighbor noise
Site:
- #406, front in, gravel
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked beside coach
- Very level; used hydraulic leveling
- Gravel site about 50 feet long by about 40 feet wide
- Picnic table on gravel area
- No fire pit
- A bunch of small bottlecap-sized garbage on site
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, inconveniently located on passenger side (when fronted in)
- 35 PSI water, inconveniently located on passenger side
- Loose sewer connection, somewhat conveniently located (2-3 10-foot pipes needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 40-50 Mbps down, 40-50 Mbps up, 22 ms ping
- AT&T: 830 Mbps down, 70 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
- Verizon: 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 35 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: not used
Amenities:
- Pool
- Swimming beach
- Marina with kayak etc rental
- Package delivery to office
- Garbage dumpsters
- Frequent food trucks and other vendors onsite
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Waterfront and road noise
We have a Thousand Trails Adventure membership, but that did not help us get a reservation here at all. Considering how hard it is to get a reservation in the Keys, we bit the bullet and paid retail for a two-week stay in a waterfront site that was the most expensive site we’d ever booked. I should point out that site 406 really shouldn’t be considered a “Premium waterfront” site. There is a peep of the water through the mangroves, but nothing like a panoramic view. However, we enjoyed watching the water and the ibises hunting in the mangroves from our front window, so I’ll let it slide.
While the peek of the water was nice, the constant highway noise was not. No matter where you are in the park, there is a constant hum of the Overseas Highway, although it’s somewhat reduced on the far edge and towards the marina.
The park has definite drainage issues. We arrived after a major thunderstorm swept through the Keys and there was a large lake at the entrance and in several other places around the park, including the road our site was on. They had pumps going to try and divert the worst of it out to sea, but it took days to completely dry up.
They allow motorhomes to front-in at the waterfront sites, which is nice even though the hookups were then on the wrong side of the coach. Luckily, we have pretty long power cables and hoses, so we’re able to reach across the nice wide site.
One downside of the waterfront site is that people think it’s okay to walk through your site on their way to the beach. It is not.
There are lots of activities and a robust social scene if you’re into that. We liked that it was convenient to everything we wanted to do in the Keys, but $300/night would be a dealbreaker if we wanted to visit the Keys again. We camped at Encore Sunshine Key RV Resort & Marina in a Motorhome.
Campground map:
An interactive map:
Our site:
Our power and water hookups were on the passenger side, since we fronted in. Fortunately we have a long power cord and hoses, so it wasn’t a problem (I didn’t even need to use my power extension cord).
I flew my drone for some aerial views; this first one is above our site:
Entrance sign:
Direction sign:
Rental golf carts:
Rental Slingshot:
Mail room; quite well organized. People go in to claim their own packages:
They regularly had food vendors onsite:
Birds in front of our site:
Our coach next to a rental tiny home:
More tiny homes:
Rental trailers:
Other sites:
Dog park:
Swimming pool:
Marina:
Fish in the marina:
Sunset Pier, with a swimming area and fishing:
People checking out a grounded boat:
Beach access down from our site:
An old bridge, now a walking path:
The old bridge next to the newer Overseas Highway bridge:
A glimpse of our coach from the water:
A large, nice RV park. It would have been nicer if we could have stayed for free via our Thousand Trails membership, but the premium site was nicer.
Video: Sugarloaf Key to Ohio Key, Florida motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, just 19 miles from Sugarloaf Key, Florida to Ohio Key, Florida, including a picture-in-picture from the 360 camera on the truck being towed behind the coach.