A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, just 68 miles from Clermont to Wauchula, Florida.
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Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
Travel from Clermont to Wauchula, Florida
We drove our coach 68 miles, about 1.5 hours of driving, from Clermont to Wauchula, Florida.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading south (though we actually took the route closer to Lakeland):
An interactive map, showing our actual route:
Pulling out of our site:
Line to leave TTO:
A gate ranger collecting site tags:
Can only turn right out of TTO, so we needed to do a U-turn to head south; we’d done it before, so know it’s easy for us:
Another RV doing the U-turn:
Us doing the U-turn; doesn’t look like it here, but there was heaps of room, didn’t even need to go into the bike lane:
Passing an accident:
I-4 West:
Route 570 toll road:
Route 98 South:
Turn:
17 / 98 South:
Paladin on the dash:
An interesting building in Bowling Green:
Arriving at Thousnd Trails Peace River:
Check in line:
Video: Disney World to Clermont, Florida motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, just 26 miles from Disney World to Clermont, Florida.
Travel from Disney World to Clermont, Florida
We drove our coach just 26 miles, about half an hour of driving (plus killing a little time at a Love’s truck stop), from Disney World to Clermont, Florida.
It’s a little awkward, as check out time from Fort Wilderness is 11:00, and check in at TTO is noon (very strictly enforced), but the drive time between the two is only about half an hour. We considered waiting for a bit in the overflow area at Fort Wilderness, but it was full. We also considered going to a rest area to kill some time, but we noticed a Love’s truck stop on the way, and figured we could spend some time there. Love’s doesn’t usually have parking that works for us, but what with a long time to get through the intersection and a few minutes at the pump, it used up enough time.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading west:
An interactive map:
Toading up on the way out of the campground:
Leaving Disney World (how sad):
Exit to I-4 East:
Disney-shaped power pylon:
Love’s truck stop:
Joining the very long line to enter TTO; this was at 12:07 on a Sunday:
Almost to the entrance, at 12:18:
Finally on the entrance road, at 12:20:
We knew it’d take a long time to get in, so I made some lunch while we inched forward:
Paladin on the dash:
Welcome:
Almost to the entrance gate, at 12:54:
But wait, there’s more: joining the line to get a site, at 12:56:
People watching the line:
Almost to the front of the line, at 13:22; I waited in the truck after we untoaded:
Getting guided to our site, at 13:36:
So yeah, arriving shortly after noon on a Sunday, finally getting to our site an hour and a half later. One day we’ll learn and arrive mid-week, when it isn’t so busy, though we prefer to travel on weekends to avoid impacting Jenn’s work.
Video: Clermont to Disney World, Florida motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, just 48 miles from Clermont to Disney World, Florida.
Travel from Clermont to Disney World, Florida
We drove our coach just 48 miles, about one hour of driving, from Clermont to Disney World, Florida.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading in a deliberately long route, to kill time before check-in time:
An interactive map:
Checking out of TTO; unusual to need to check out, but at TTO one needs to hand in the site number tags:
Leaving TTO:
Clermont water tower:
An idiot driving with a flat tire, practically falling off:
Going through a toll plaza, entering Florida’s Turnpike:
Florida’s Turnpike:
We stopped at Turkey Lake Service Plaza for lunch, and to kill some time:
KFC for lunch:
A trailer staging area in the service plaza, which we could have used if the truck/RV parking was full:
Toll plaza when leaving the turnpike:
Exit to Disney:
Entering Walt Disney World:
Exit to Fort Wilderness:
Passing by Magic Kingdom parking:
Entering Fort Wilderness:
Fort Wilderness security gate:
Fort Wilderness Reception Outpost:
Unhitching area, where we untoaded:
Video: Dunnellon to Clermont, Florida motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 77 miles from Dunnellon, Florida to Clermont, Florida.
Travel from Dunnellon to Clermont, Florida
We drove our coach 77 miles, only about 1.5 hours of driving, from Dunnellon, Florida to Clermont, Florida.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading southeast:
An interactive map:
After exiting our (very nice) site and looping around, we passed our site on the way to the check in area to toad up:
Exiting the campground:
A fuel stop:
Filling the DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid):
“Welcome to Florida’s Turnpike, The Less Stressway”:
Toll plaza when exiting the turnpike:
Arriving at Thousand Trails Orlando:
“Welcome to Thousand Trails Orlando; We Are Family”:
A long line to get sites:
At TTO people go to a parking lot then are guided to a site; you can request an area that you like, and are shown to that section, and can ask for a different site if you don’t like it. Kinda a hybrid between the usual Thousand Trails approach of first-come-first-served, where you roam around and find a vacant site, and the more typical assigned sites approach of other RV parks. Though Thousand Trails is moving to an assigned sites approach.
A bunch of RVs waiting to be guided to a site; this is where motorhomes untoad, too:
Guided to our site:
Video: Carrabelle to Dunnellon, Florida motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 203 miles from Carrabelle to Dunnellon, Florida.
Travel from Carrabelle to Dunnellon, Florida
We drove our coach 203 miles, about four hours of driving, from Carrabelle to Dunnellon, Florida.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading southeast:
An interactive map, with potential stops marked (we actually only stopped once, at Rocky’s 98):
Toading up at Ho-Hum RV Park; we miss that view:
Why does their bear sign look like a polar bear?
Goodbye Gulf Coast:
Lunch stop at Rocky’s 98 gas station:
They had convenient big-rig-sized parking:
A kitchen with various food options:
We just grabbed some super-healthy stuff for lunch (and fudge for dessert later):
Paladin on the dash:
Turning right in Perry:
Paladin was feeling very snuggly on this trip:
“Follow That Dream Parkway”:
Arriving at Rainbow Springs State Park; we had to wait for several minutes for another RV blocking the entrance, presumably because they didn’t have the gate code; this park is unusual in that you need a code to get in even before checking in, which they provide via email beforehand:
Check in parking:
Office:
Our site:
