We had been happily anticipating our stay at Road Runner Travel Resort because one of Tim’s childhood friends and her husband (Jade and John) were also staying at the RV Resort. Jade and Tim went to elementary and Junior High School together in Lafayette, Louisiana. When we started posting on Facebook that we were going to buy an RV and start fulltime RV travel, Jade reached out, and she and John have been providing us with invaluable advice ever since. John had been RV traveling for over a decade and is an RV Driving School instructor. Jade met John in 2016 and has been travelling with John since she retired in 2017; they married in 2021. (Check out Jade and John’s blog at whereyatblog.wordpress.com.) John has been our troubleshooting resource when we encountered issues with the RV, and both have provided us with a lot of advice and information about the full-timing. We were going to be in the Road Runner Travel Resort together for 5 nights and we were ready for some in-person time together!
As we drove east toward Ft. Pierce, Florida, on our way to Road Runner, we stopped to get our RV washed at a place called Blue Beacon Truck Wash (our RV was filthy after two months of travel). We had to wait in line with 18-wheeler trucks for about an hour, but the RV looked like new again when we finished!
On our first night at Road Runner Travel Resort, Jade and John made a chicken and sausage gumbo and hosted us at their RV. There’s nothing better than some good comfort food, and gumbo is a favorite of Tim’s people (Cajuns) in Lafayette! In fact, every evening that we spent together integrated food, great conversation, laughter, memories, dreams, and advice. On another evening, we hosted Jade and John at our RV with bourbon chicken on the grill, rice dressing, green beans, and a homemade king cake for dessert! John and Jade barbecued ribs at their RV on another night. Saturday was John and Jade’s last night at the RV Resort. They drove us to a nearby seafood restaurant, called 12A Buoy, for dinner. We enjoyed our conch appetizer; grilled shrimp stuffed with crabmeat; beer, wine, and cocktails; and lots of conversation. One of the signs of a good friendship is when there is never a lull in the conversation. Somehow, after talking for hours on multiple evenings, we never had a problem filling more hours with conversation and laughter.
Our time at Road Runner wasn’t all about food. John lent us his car one day and we ran some errands in the city. Tim picked up a prescription at Walgreens, made a stop at the post office, and picked up a few things at the grocery store. Pat made a run to a UPS Store to return some items he had purchased on Amazon. We did laundry on two different days. We walked around the RV Resort daily, taking pictures of the lake, pool, tennis courts, and golf course. We had our mail forwarded to Road Runner by our mail service in Livingston, Texas; and spent some time reading Christmas cards and other mail that had been accumulating there since December. Also, John gave us a bike rack that he was no longer using, and we mounted it to the back of our RV (after watching some YouTube videos about how to properly install it) one afternoon. We plan to buy electric bikes in the near future and will transport them with us on the bike rack.
John and Jade were leaving for a 12-day cruise and storing their RV while they were on the cruise. When you store an RV and aren’t plugged into electricity, you must empty your refrigerator and freezer; so, they brought over a lot of food for us! We should have enough to eat for weeks now! We will miss spending time with John and Jade, and hope to meet up with them again somewhere down the road.
On our last evening at Road Runner, Tim started what he hopes is a new streak by winning $10 playing bingo (his third win in four bingo events on our RV travels)!
Review of Road Runner Travel Resort in Ft. Pierce, Florida
Road Runner Travel Resort is located close to the beach on the Atlantic Ocean side of Florida (their website says about a 10-minute drive to Hutchinson Island Beach), but not really close enough to easily ride your bikes there. The city is about a 13-minute car ride from the RV Resort, where you can find most of what you might need. Since we used a borrowed car to go into the city, we don’t know how easy it would have been to take an Uber/Lyft.
The RV Resort has 452 full hookup RV sites, along with cabins. It has a heated pool; laundry facilities; bathrooms with showers; and tennis, pickleball, & basketball courts. The resort has a lake where you can fish (you must throw back what you catch) and a three-hole golf course. Road Runner RV Resort also has a restaurant and a store where you can buy food, beer and wine, and RV supplies.
The RV Resort has some activities; they gave us a list of a few daily activities when we registered. The events calendar on the website was not updated but most of the activities seemed to involve exercise classes; crafts; board games; wood working; tennis; golf; and of course, a Bingo night! There were no activities listed for the weekend.
There are no garbage bins at the resort. Instead, they pick up garbage at your RV site, but only on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Additionally, your garbage must be out on the curb by 8:00 a.m. on those days, which, as late sleepers, we found aggravating. The resort had bins for recycling; this is only the third place we’ve stayed where we got to recycle plastics, glass, and cardboard.
We probably wouldn’t return to the Road Runner RV Resort because there isn’t much to do in the area except going to restaurants or the beach but not without a car. As “no car” travelers, we could go to other places that have much closer beach access and nearby attractions. It was a beautiful and quiet resort though, if you are looking for a quiet place to hang out for a while.
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