July - October, 2008 - Karen and Lee Duquette stayed in the Orlando area awhile, while taking care of Brian Duquette's business and his dog, China. This was such a stressful time.
They did not continue their RV travels for 10 months, having a lot of details to handle. So part of that time was spent in a campground in Clermont, and the rest of that time was spent in Broward County, after the detective told them to go be near family because nothing will happen with Brian Duquette's case for quite awhile.
And of course, they had no choice but to continue with their day-to-day lives. Although, there were some good days when they participated in a few local activities as shown below, just to keep themselves from going crazy, but their broken hearts never healed from Brian's tragedy, and never will.
The following photos are of wild animals at Thousand Trails Campground in Clermont, Florida. Some family members came to visit for awhile, and of course Lee and Karen Duquette enjoyed time with them. Everyone had a broken heart, but being together with family helped a little bit.
Below: Brian Duquette's beloved dog, China and the turtle.
China was a gentle dog and did NOT hurt the turtle.
Below: Cows behind the RV motorhome
Below: Of course, during this trying time, family came to help out. Karen and Lee Duquette enjoyed having their grandson Alex Jones at the campground for awhile.
Below: Alex wanted to go play miniature golf, so of course, they did.
Below:
Karen Duquette and her grandson Alex, had fun in a store while Lee Duquette
was shopping.
Below: After their family returned to Florida, Karen
and Lee Duquette did not do much while stuck in Orlando. The stress
gave Karen Duquette blood clots and she had trouble walking and talking.
Lee rushed her to the hospital because she also had trouble breathing.
It was a very scary, serious event.
After a bit - on September 28, 2008 - Karen and Lee walked around
LegoLand in Downtown Disney.
The gator was laughing, but Karen was
not!
Save her somebody!
Save her somebody!
Sign
outside a Restaurant
Below: Displays made entirely out of Legos at Downtown Disney
Below: October 12, 2008 - The following photos are of some unusual and wonderful scarecrows at the Leesburg Town Square.
Below: This is really a scarecrow of a fireman climbing up the side of a building. WOW! It looked real to the two RV Gypsies!
Below: The wall of the
"Ice Room" in the restaurant kept changing colors.
with one of the critters in the restaurant!
Below: What! Where is Lee Duquette now ????
Below: While Judy and Joe Betts were in Orlando, they did some other sight seeing.
Below: Finally, the detective told Karen and Lee Duquette that they should be near their family in Broward County because it will be quite awhile before there is any new information in Brian Duquette's case. So with heavy hearts, they returned to Broward County just in time for Halloween. Karen went to a line dance party and none of her line dance friends knew she had returned. They kept trying to guess who was in the costume shown below. Karen also had a "voice changer" under her costume to disguise her voice. She won 2nd place. Of course, she really should have won first place, but this group did not like scary costumes. Tweetle Dee and Tweetle Dum costumes took first place.
The
two RV Gypsies parked their RV at Markham Park in Broward
County, Florida, and spent time with family. In November 2008, Karen
Duquette's friend Monica Ekedahl and her daughter Titti, who
live in Sweden, came to Florida for a visit. Monica and Titti wanted
to go to 
