We are on the way home!
After returning from the Bahamas on May 9, we spent 4 more
days in Vero Beach.
We spent the first day re-provisioning,
aka grocery shopping. We were lucky to get a ride from our friend Pete so we
didn’t have to carry everything on the bus. We would not have been able to do
it.
The second day we did laundry for
the first time in 5 weeks. Fortunately hot weather clothes don’t take up a lot
of space – mostly shorts and t-shirts. We did 4 loads of laundry.
The third day we had a repair made
to our stainless steel companionway frame. (The companionway is the stairway
into the boat.) Pete helped us get it there – it’s big, with 5 steps, and heavy
– and we took it home on the bus. It just fit into the front seat, like a very
tall, angular, metallic person. While it was being fixed, we had lunch at Chef
Lin Asian Buffet where we saw our friends Val and Steve, from s/v Barefoot’n,
and we stopped for one last visit to the Vero Beach Patisserie.
On the fourth day Chuck changed the
oil in the generator, and we got a new phone for me, finally! My phone stopped
working in early April, a few days after I dropped it on the cockpit sole. As a
result I had no real phone, no text or internet, and was missing my favorite
camera during the entire Bahamas trip. It was pretty exciting to get a new one.
The new one is waterproof, with a shock-case, and has an even better camera.
While the phone was getting set up, we stopped for a final lunch at Shandong
Noodle House, the first place we stopped for lunch when we arrived in Vero
Beach in mid-December.
Finally, on Thursday, May 14, we left Vero Beach, at STM
951.6, and began our northward journey.
That day we reached the Cocoa East
anchorage, in FL at STM 897.4. (STM = Statute Mile, measured from Portsmouth,
VA, STM 0, and increasing, going south, for over 1000 miles along the Intracoastal Waterway.)
On Friday we made the short trip to Titusville, FL, STM
878.8, where we stayed on a mooring and visited with our friend Mike
Cunningham. Chuck and Mike were once married to two women who were cousins. The
girls are out of the picture, but the boys are still friends. Mike just bought
a new house, which is right on the ICW and has a perfect view of rocket
launches at Cape Canaveral, through the enormous windows and glass sliding
doors. He hasn’t moved in yet, and will be doing a little work and adding
furniture, but it’s easy to see what a fabulous place this will be. It reminds me so much of the $6.5 million ocean front house that we looked at in Vero Beach, in size and style.
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| Entrance |
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| Mike |
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| Along the entrance walkway |
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| Foyer |
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| Main Kitchen |
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| First Floor Living Room, seen from the kitchen |
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| First Floor Living Room, ICW View |
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| First Floor Living Room |
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| Deck outside First Floor Living Room |
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| First Floor Living Room |
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| ICW View from 2nd floor Master Bedroom |
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| Whirlpool tub in 2nd floor Master Bedroom |
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| Closets and cabinets in 2nd floor Master Bedroom |
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| Downstairs living room |
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| Downstairs living room, ICW View |
Sandy & Chuck
on s/v Summer Wind
Double click on photos to see a larger view.
It's hard to keep up with the blog. sometimes we don't have time, and sometimes we don't have connectivity. I'm
backfilling with pieces that I didn't get to write while we were living them.
So please keep reviewing the contents list to make sure you've seen everything.
I change the "posted" dates so things remain in chronological order.
