Friday was spent running errands but Saturday was a great day. We started out by going downtown to the weekly Farmer's Market where they actually had a few farmers selling victuals. The market was packed with snowbirds looking for bargains. So we quickly walked through and got some fresh produce for our next few days, then went to West Marine for stuff to help out with the hose job and then headed out of town.
We have been very lucky that Jack and Dora Andreas loaned us a car so we could do the errands we need to do. Since it's been rainy it wouldn't have been fun riding our bikes everywhere and some things are just way far.
But on Saturday we had the opportunity to see one of our music favorites Mr. Jim Morris play at his home venue, the Nav-A-Gator in Lake Suzy just a few miles from here. We first heard Jim Morris on Radio Margaritaville and loved him. We've seen him at the Jetty on Maryland's eastern shore several times but we saw him do a Nav-A-Gator afternoon concert.
Tom McGarry came with us. We've spent time with him while we've been here and shared lots of stories and information.
And here you can see one of his groupies getting an autograph on the latest CD.
Fortunately the rain held off all afternoon and we met quite a lot of wonderful folks. We met folks from visitors from Illinois, recent transplants and some Brits who were raving Jim Morris fans as well as some other folks. Everyone was fascinated to hear about life aboard.
Saturday night we met Jack and Dora for dinner at a fish place out the road. Wasn't more than a place that served what they caught that day but the food was incredibly good and of course the company was outstanding. After we closed down the fish place we wandered around in the rain looking for a quiet bar where we could continue our stories. We found a place that was mostly quiet but as it got later it got louder. So somewhere on the down side of 11 we adjourned and Linda and I came back to our waterborne condo.
This morning started out with a workout in the great fitness center at this yacht club and then right into working on head hoses. Once we complete this and the rebuild of our forward head that should complete that major project and a major annoyance since it first acted up back in Cherry Point. Of course I have other major projects I haven't started yet. Some I'm saving for the Bahamas but some I need to do while we're at a dock.
Tonight Tom McGarry picked us up and drove us down to Burnt Store for dinner at Cathy Bleakly's house. Tom and Cathy are both old friends from Herrington Harbour who have relocated here to Punta Gorda and enjoying it all.
We had appetizers and then a wonderful Cobia dinner that Cathy prepared.
This weekend we were also forced to make some decisions about our travel. There are some additional things we need to do before we go to the Bahamas and we can only stay here until Wednesday so we will be leaving here and going back to Key West for a few days until we receive everything we need and then we can head over to the Bahamas.
What's really amazing at each point is that when we leave it is the actualization of plans and dreams we've made for years. It's one thing to think about them but when the actual departure time arrives and we start the engine it is exciting and almost scary. Ever since St Augustine everything has been new and the realization that other than a few points in time it really doesn't matter when we get there. We're living in the land of no Mondays so we can go where we want when we want. I don't think we yet appreciate the power of that.
There isn't anyplace we've been that we "wanted" to leave but each next adventure was better than the last and we certainly enjoy the sailing. Time spent at sea is magical. So far we haven't seen the fury that the sea can provide but I'm sure we will soon enough once we venture forth to foreign lands.
This is truly the time of our lives because it is the time of our lives.
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