00:00 Intro 00:43 Exiting Hammock at Fenney 11:23 Arriving at Magnolia Plaza 20:54 Crossing the Waterlily Bridge 27:08 Crossing the Brownwood Bridge 33:08 Arriving at Grand Traverse Plaza 34:08 In Conclusion The best way to reach us is via our Facebook page. There you can write to us publicly and privately. facebook.com/ToRetirementAndBeyond Visit our Amazon store for all the products shown in our videos plus a list of all the equipment we use to make our videos: www.amazon.com/shop/toretirementandbeyond
Enjoyed riding along, I did remember some areas where I drove the lifestyle visit golf cart, Amazing the places you can get to without driving the car, I love that and appreciate you doing this Roy and Karen, Such beautiful scenery😍
Roy, my wife, and I actually came your way on Sunday! For the 1st time we ate at the Fenny Grill and it was so good! We love walking around the nature trails and observing the wildlife around the rec center! We drove from Richmond down! We love the Fenny area! It's so beautiful! Another terrific video ❤
We fell in love with this area BEFORE we even knew that's where we'd be living. Fenney Rec Center has a firepit that you can reserve. They will start the fire up for you and you can invite your friends over for a "fireside chat". We just did that last week.
Love this video. I really enjoy the golf cart videos showing and lovely scenery and interesting locations. I'm looking forward to the continued series. Thanks!
I enjoy your video’s and i appreciate you narrating on your travels it’s so much better than the ones that have music instead of talking can’t wait to see the continuing to the north. I live just off of Morris Blvd half way between Lake Sumter and Spanish Spring. Thanks for the tour.
Another great video. I've been soaking up videos for a year now. I follow every turn and landmark as the video plays, saying yep, yep, that's right! I know exactly where you're at! Our Lifestyle Preview is 10 days away. I feel confident that we won't get lost. We'll travel the same paths so we can absorb all the beauty in person. Much appreciated, Brian and Debbie.
Loved, loved, loved it!!! Karen was absolutely spot on with her directions, I’m going to need her services when I get down there!😂 Another great video keep them coming ❤️🚗💕🐶😃
@@kembjkk There is a paid app for the iPhone called Villages GPS that works *really* well. When I don't have Karen to give me directions I use that app.
Loved loved loved riding along and learning how much shopping and enjoying the scenery on the golf cart...from a Indiana girl living on the Virginia Tennessee line ❤️
Hi Roy and Karen. Another great cart ride video!! It felt like we were riding with you. How did you learn the all roads? My goodness, there is so much growth in TV since we saw it in the summer. We loved Toojays too! We had breakfast and lunch there. They have the best matza ball soup!😋😋Thanks for the ride and looking forward to more. ❤️🙋🏻♀️ Happy Spring🌷🌷🌷
Hi Nina!! :) Going from our home in Hammock at Fenney to Brownwood is something we do all the time. Once we get north of there we would use a GPS. We used the GPS on the next video - though you probably wouldn't be able to tell. ;)
Karen your sense of direction is amazing! I think I'm with Roy - favorite thing to do is get lost - due to my lack of sense of direction lol. The drive you took showed such lovely spots along the way - it's so pretty there in the Villages!
Karen and Roy, love all your vlogs since day 1. So calming to ride along with you in your golf car. You mention around minute 24:00 that across the street from current Richmond, a mini Richmond is still to be built. That's what we are waiting for since my silly retirement didn't coincide with Richmond sales last year. Does it look like anything is happening in the new area, any thoughts of when they will begin? Again, thanks for what you do. Us Village Wannabe's can't get enough...
Thanks Brenda! :) We watched them clear the area months ago and then everything over there just stopped. We thought, maybe it's because of the Buena Vista extension work, but that's been done for weeks and still nothing. The only thing we heard, and I think it was on a Goldwing Nut video, was that they are to be Courtyard Villas.
Karen is a walking talking map. 😀 I was impressed. Thanks for the golf cart ride along. I rented in Marsh bend last year, at Samuel Villas. Walking distance to Magnolia Plaza. I recognized mostly everything on your ride. The strip of stores with the new coffee shop was in its final stages of construction. Glad to see there’s a pizza shop. That area needed one. There is a gas station near Edna's that you sort of need to know it is there. It looks like an maintanence entrance and is on the left hand side, maybe 1/8 to 1/4 mile past Ednas. Cheaper and easier as there is an attendant to help. not positive about the hours.
Kathy, Karen is amazing. No idea how she does it - even after all these years. Yes, we know about the gas near Edna's, but since it's only open during the day, and we work for a living, we can't get there. :(
My brother on his 4 seater Golf Car seats full it the Alligator on the way home form Brownwood at night. They stuck the landing and the Gator winced & kept walking!
We will be there in just 3 weeks for our lifestyle visit and I can't wait! I'm ready to make the plunge now, and am hoping that my husband will too, once we get there and he has a chance to get a feel of the Village lifestyle for himself. 😉 Any suggestions or things you'd wished you'd done, or are glad that you did, for our visit?
Woo Hoo!!! How exciting. :) We had watched so many videos by the time we got here for our preview that we knew where and what we wanted to check out. We were looking at each village to determine where we wanted to buy. One of the best things was just getting in the golf cart and GOING - getting lost be damned - it was FUN!!!
Enjoy your videos. We are new residents in TV. Any recommendations for a place to buy a used and or affordable golf cart? A primary doctor for the routine stuff? Thanks again.
Good morning :) There are Facebook groups for buying golf carts - and we bought a used one. The problem comes when you have an issue with your cart. It's hard to get good service around here The good places will have you waiting weeks. So we recommend buying from Villages Golf Cars because you will get serviced after the sale. This is based on our first hand experiences. Finding a good doctor is also hard. Do a Google search - read the reviews - make some calls. I believe in interviewing my doctors. Roy found a doctor he likes right away. Karen decided to go to Villages Health Care. It took her awhile to get an appointment, but now that she's in the services and referrals have bene great. Roy Can't go there as they don't take his Medigap insurance - only Advantage plans.
Thinking of doing a lifestyle visit but we are also traveling in a RV. Should we stay in one of their homes or park our RV close by? Also where can we stay if we do decide to stay in the RV. Which one do you think would give us better experience?
If you really want to experience The Villages, ditch the RV. The Villages offers a "Lifestyle Preview Visit" for $99/night they will put you up in a beautiful home, provide you with a golf cart and bicycles, and you can live for up to a week AS A VILLAGER. If you insist on RVing - there is a Thousand Trails RV park not far - and plenty of others in the area.
I was joking. I have car anxiety and this actually gave me some anxiety and I wanted to hold on to something for dear life. I don't know if you're actually driving that fast but it looks fast!! Oh and btw, the stop signs aren't actually the law, they're just a suggestion. (also joking). But seriously, I did enjoy going along for the ride with you two.
@@dawnitalutz1953 It's always good to add :) and LOL so we know when you're joking. Since I was only driving about 15-20MPH it already feels like we're at a stop and redundant to stop again. LOL
Do you ever stop for the stop signs? you appear to be a very careless driver. maybe even speeding at times.. fimimg and talking but not paying close attention.
I'm driving less than 20mph at the top speed. Filming in wide angle exaggerates things. Appearances can be deceiving, like you being a jerk. I could be wrong.
00:00 Intro
00:43 Exiting Hammock at Fenney
11:23 Arriving at Magnolia Plaza
20:54 Crossing the Waterlily Bridge
27:08 Crossing the Brownwood Bridge
33:08 Arriving at Grand Traverse Plaza
34:08 In Conclusion
The best way to reach us is via our Facebook page.
There you can write to us publicly and privately.
facebook.com/ToRetirementAndBeyond
Visit our Amazon store for all the products shown in our videos
plus a list of all the equipment we use to make our videos:
www.amazon.com/shop/toretirementandbeyond
I love how you zip right along…paths, tunnels, bridge…so much to see by golf cart! I love it!
After a year here you just zip zip. It wasn't like that when we first got here. ;)
Nice. Thank you.
Our pleasure!
Love your videos, or love you two, or maybe both👍
Oh ohh. You're gonna gonna make Karen jealous. Or Roy. Or Both!!!!
Lol
Enjoyed riding along, I did remember some areas where I drove the lifestyle visit golf cart, Amazing the places you can get to without driving the car, I love that and appreciate you doing this Roy and Karen, Such beautiful scenery😍
Glad you enjoyed it, Pauline :)
Y’all certainly live in a beautiful area! Thanks for taking me along for the ride!
Again? Thank you Carla! :)
Roy, my wife, and I actually came your way on Sunday! For the 1st time we ate at the Fenny Grill and it was so good! We love walking around the nature trails and observing the wildlife around the rec center! We drove from Richmond down! We love the Fenny area! It's so beautiful! Another terrific video ❤
We fell in love with this area BEFORE we even knew that's where we'd be living. Fenney Rec Center has a firepit that you can reserve. They will start the fire up for you and you can invite your friends over for a "fireside chat". We just did that last week.
@Roy & Karen: To Retirement and Beyond oh wow we didn't know about the firepit. Sounds like fun!
Love this video. I really enjoy the golf cart videos showing and lovely scenery and interesting locations. I'm looking forward to the continued series. Thanks!
Thanks Brian 👍
Loved the tour! Thanks so much!
Our pleasure!
I enjoy your video’s and i appreciate you narrating on your travels it’s so much better than the ones that have music instead of talking can’t wait to see the continuing to the north. I live just off of Morris Blvd half way between Lake Sumter and Spanish Spring. Thanks for the tour.
We agree, we like it when people explain where they are, where they're going and why.
Another great video. I've been soaking up videos for a year now. I follow every turn and landmark as the video plays, saying yep, yep, that's right! I know exactly where you're at! Our Lifestyle Preview is 10 days away. I feel confident that we won't get lost. We'll travel the same paths so we can absorb all the beauty in person. Much appreciated, Brian and Debbie.
As I was telling someone else - one of the most fun things we did on our preview visit was to get in the golf cart and just GO - and get lost! :)
Really enjoyed this video. Enjoyed the ride! Hope to be doing this ourselves soon.😊
We hope so too :)
Another great video.
We appreciate hearing that! :)
Great golf cart tour. I really like that you tell us what shops are there as you drive by.
Thanks Linda! :)
Good to know - we'll keep doing that.
Loved, loved, loved it!!! Karen was absolutely spot on with her directions, I’m going to need her services when I get down there!😂
Another great video keep them coming ❤️🚗💕🐶😃
Yeah, it's what she does. Even hanging with her for 30 years it doesn't rub off on me - I just keep getting worse. ;)
its harder to navigate the GPS than it is to drive!
@@kembjkk There is a paid app for the iPhone called Villages GPS that works *really* well. When I don't have Karen to give me directions I use that app.
Loved loved loved riding along and learning how much shopping and enjoying the scenery on the golf cart...from a Indiana girl living on the Virginia Tennessee line ❤️
So glad! More coming. :)
Dang dude you didn’t even stop for a STOP sign!
Thanks for watching
Dang! Karen gots some SKILLS! Lol. I’m nothing like her. I’m directionally challenged!
She got the "built in GPS" and I got the darn alarm clock.
Thanks!
WOW! Thank you so much! :)
Hi Roy and Karen. Another great cart ride video!! It felt like we were riding with you. How did you learn the all roads? My goodness, there is so much growth in TV since we saw it in the summer. We loved Toojays too! We had breakfast and lunch there. They have the best matza ball soup!😋😋Thanks for the ride and looking forward to more. ❤️🙋🏻♀️ Happy Spring🌷🌷🌷
Hi Nina!! :)
Going from our home in Hammock at Fenney to Brownwood is something we do all the time. Once we get north of there we would use a GPS. We used the GPS on the next video - though you probably wouldn't be able to tell. ;)
Karen your sense of direction is amazing! I think I'm with Roy - favorite thing to do is get lost - due to my lack of sense of direction lol. The drive you took showed such lovely spots along the way - it's so pretty there in the Villages!
Getting lost is full of adventure! ;)
Karen and Roy, love all your vlogs since day 1. So calming to ride along with you in your golf car. You mention around minute 24:00 that across the street from current Richmond, a mini Richmond is still to be built. That's what we are waiting for since my silly retirement didn't coincide with Richmond sales last year. Does it look like anything is happening in the new area, any thoughts of when they will begin? Again, thanks for what you do. Us Village Wannabe's can't get enough...
Thanks Brenda! :)
We watched them clear the area months ago and then everything over there just stopped. We thought, maybe it's because of the Buena Vista extension work, but that's been done for weeks and still nothing.
The only thing we heard, and I think it was on a Goldwing Nut video, was that they are to be Courtyard Villas.
Karen is a walking talking map. 😀 I was impressed. Thanks for the golf cart ride along. I rented in Marsh bend last year, at Samuel Villas. Walking distance to Magnolia Plaza. I recognized mostly everything on your ride. The strip of stores with the new coffee shop was in its final stages of construction. Glad to see there’s a pizza shop. That area needed one. There is a gas station near Edna's that you sort of need to know it is there. It looks like an maintanence entrance and is on the left hand side, maybe 1/8 to 1/4 mile past Ednas. Cheaper and easier as there is an attendant to help. not positive about the hours.
Kathy, Karen is amazing. No idea how she does it - even after all these years. Yes, we know about the gas near Edna's, but since it's only open during the day, and we work for a living, we can't get there. :(
My brother on his 4 seater Golf Car seats full it the Alligator on the way home form Brownwood at night. They stuck the landing and the Gator winced & kept walking!
We've just missed gators with the cart a few times.
We will be there in just 3 weeks for our lifestyle visit and I can't wait! I'm ready to make the plunge now, and am hoping that my husband will too, once we get there and he has a chance to get a feel of
the Village lifestyle for himself. 😉
Any suggestions or things you'd wished you'd done, or are glad that you did, for our visit?
Woo Hoo!!! How exciting. :)
We had watched so many videos by the time we got here for our preview that we knew where and what we wanted to check out. We were looking at each village to determine where we wanted to buy.
One of the best things was just getting in the golf cart and GOING - getting lost be damned - it was FUN!!!
🍍
Did I hear Golden Earring!!😊 Did you speed up the video? I know golf carts can only go 20mph, but it seemed like you were zooming!
Yes, you did. And...
Our golf cart goes up to 24MPH...
ZOOM ZOOM
Enjoy your videos. We are new residents in TV. Any recommendations for a place to buy a used and or affordable golf cart? A primary doctor for the routine stuff? Thanks again.
Good morning :)
There are Facebook groups for buying golf carts - and we bought a used one. The problem comes when you have an issue with your cart. It's hard to get good service around here The good places will have you waiting weeks. So we recommend buying from Villages Golf Cars because you will get serviced after the sale. This is based on our first hand experiences.
Finding a good doctor is also hard. Do a Google search - read the reviews - make some calls. I believe in interviewing my doctors. Roy found a doctor he likes right away. Karen decided to go to Villages Health Care. It took her awhile to get an appointment, but now that she's in the services and referrals have bene great. Roy Can't go there as they don't take his Medigap insurance - only Advantage plans.
👍🏼
Love the drive as well as the clarity of your video. What camera do you use?
Exterior was a GoPro 9 on 1080P - Interior of us was an iPhone 6 on 1080P. Glad you enjoyed :)
Good video
Should point out that certain people are walking wrong and you should walk against the traffic!
Love golf cart rides!
Thank you!
We could make a whole video on what people do wrong. Do you think that would be entertaining?
@@ToRetirementAndBeyond just mentions so people who come know not to do certain things. JS.
Enjoyed watching! Curious of what dash cam camera you use on the golf cart to get both views and a picture in picture.
Go Pro on the outside of the windshield and iPhone on the inside getting us. The we combine in the editing software.
Hi peeps are e bikes and scooters allowed Also I didn't see any motorbikes ,happy travelling
Anywhere golf carts can go you can also ride bikes, including e-bikes. Scooters and motorcycles would have to use the streets, just like the cars.
Karen, you look so cute with your hat and glasses. I look horrible in a baseball cap.
Thank you Lisa :)
Thinking of doing a lifestyle visit but we are also traveling in a RV. Should we stay in one of their homes or park our RV close by? Also where can we stay if we do decide to stay in the RV. Which one do you think would give us better experience?
If you really want to experience The Villages, ditch the RV. The Villages offers a "Lifestyle Preview Visit" for $99/night they will put you up in a beautiful home, provide you with a golf cart and bicycles, and you can live for up to a week AS A VILLAGER.
If you insist on RVing - there is a Thousand Trails RV park not far - and plenty of others in the area.
@@ToRetirementAndBeyond thank you for your quick response 😊😊
Do you know if there are bike trails for recumbent trikes?
We see people riding them all the time.
Hi. Great video. Does anyone know if Groom or the other transport buses pick up from Amtrak? Or if it is not too far, can take an Uber. Thank you n
No one has ever asked that question before. What I can tell you is that Groome is an AIRPORT shuttle. I'm thinking Uber is probably your best bet.
Roy is that your mother your crusing around with? Does the villages allow seniors to live with their adult children?
Thanks!
Thanks for watching
I noticed you just ignore Stop signs
Thanks for watching
Do golf carts not have to stop at stop signs
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Are there a lot of colored in the Villages, if so are they spread out, are in one area. are there homeless?
thank you,
Booger and Dixie;
Caveman no allowed in villages.
Stay.
We didn't see anything. It was all a blur.
Play it back in 1/2 time
I was joking. I have car anxiety and this actually gave me some anxiety and I wanted to hold on to something for dear life. I don't know if you're actually driving that fast but it looks fast!! Oh and btw, the stop signs aren't actually the law, they're just a suggestion. (also joking). But seriously, I did enjoy going along for the ride with you two.
@@dawnitalutz1953 It's always good to add :) and LOL so we know when you're joking.
Since I was only driving about 15-20MPH it already feels like we're at a stop and redundant to stop again. LOL
Great video… HOWEVER…. You should at least make an attempt to stop at the stop signs… ☹️
Thanks for watching
Hello, do you not believe in stop signs.? I may not watch your channel any more
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If someone asked me. Would you rather watch this video OR watch paint dry ?
Give me the damn paint
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Do you ever stop for the stop signs? you appear to be a very careless driver. maybe even speeding at times.. fimimg and talking but not paying close attention.
I'm driving less than 20mph at the top speed. Filming in wide angle exaggerates things. Appearances can be deceiving, like you being a jerk. I could be wrong.