US Highway #1, mile 0Yesterday was an interesting day. We left early to catch the bus down to Key West. It was only a few minutes late, no problem. Cost to ride the bus the 50 miles to Key West is $1.50 per person, then took a city bus in Key West…
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Somewhere on the side of the road in the Lower Keys
We are currently on the side of the road waiting for our replacement bus; our’s broke down. Luckily it happened by a Mobile gas station and store so we could get a drink. Will write more tomorrow.
Sombrero Dockside Marina, Marathon, Boot Key Harbour, Florida
Another beautiful warm sunny day in paradise. Took the dinghies out Sisters Creek to the Atlantic side of the Key to a pretty little beach. Had a picnic lunch and walked on the beach. We went with Eddie and Nancy, Scott and Marlene from Nomad met us th…
Dockside Sombrero Marina, Boot Key Harbour, Marathon, Florida
Said goodbye to Jill and Richard on Finally and Tom and Linda on Q’s End today, they are heading on up to Key Largo and then on to Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Kathy and Richard in Rambler headed off today as well, but had to return with a problem with a…
Marathon, Boot Key Harbour, Florida
We pulled anchor in Little Shark River early this morning, headed down to Marathon. It was choppy this morning, not bad to travel through but harder to see the crab pots. There were crab pots all over the place, we were travelling behind some other boa…
Little Shark River, Florida
14 Feb. 2011Left Naples this morning, a little later than anticipated. The price that we ended up paying was a little higher than we had anticipated and it took some time to discuss it. Naples is a beautiful place, and the boat club is great, but they …
Naples Boat Club, Naples, Florida
Cool this morning, but sunny. Nancy and I went to church at the Naples Community Church. Again this week, the people were friendly, the sermon was very good, the music was wonderful. The assistant minister has done a solo each week that we have been he…
Naples Boat Club, Naples, Florida
Cooler this morning. Rained overnight, and stayed cloudy this morning. We took the car over to Fort Lauderdale, had lunch, then visited some big marine stores: Sam the Sailerman, West Marine and Boat Owners Warehouse. Sam the Sailerman has both new and…
Naples Boat Club, Naples, Florida
Fog and misty rain today but still nice to be out and about. We were having coffee on our back deck this morning, heard a splash, dolphins were playing in the empty slip across the dock from us. We watched them for some time, could have reached out and…
Naples Boat Club, Naples, Florida
We celebrated Wayne’s birthday today. We chose not to travel because the winds out on the Gulf were fairly high. Instead we got the dinghies down and went touring up the river and up and down some of the canals here in Naples. It gave us a chance to ad…
