In the New Year, when we arrived in Florida from Portland, OR, we couldn’t believe that it was colder in Jacksonville than in OR. Something is wrong here. We had just spent Christmas with our daughter and her family in Portland, and before that we had Thanksgiving in California with our older daughter and her family. Two months in all. We got all of our annual doctor visits out of the way, saw a lot of our good friends, and were able to spend some good quality time with our family. It was great!
The one thing that is really difficult about traveling like we do is that we really don’t see our dear family as much as we would like. I know it’s our choice, but it is still tough. We’ll continue to cruise and enjoy what we’re doing, but we will still complain about missing family.
We left Palm Coast the 18th of January and are continuing south on the waterway. After stopping a couple of nights we finally arrived in Vero Beach, FL which is where we are now. Vero is a great place and sort of a gathering spot for cruisers doing what we do. There are also quite a few boats that wait here for favorable weather conditions for crossing the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas.
This year we are going to be traveling and working at the same time. We have been hired by the Waterway Guide to be Cruising Editors, making updates and changes to their guide of South Florida, the Keys and the West Coast of Florida. It sounds as though it will be fun and interesting and still allow us to do what we love most….cruising. The Waterway Guide is the most respected cruising guide on the East Coast. Every cruising boater will have Waterway Guide aboard their boat. Our responsibility will be for the navigation, dockage and anchorage sections for each of the areas within our territory. It will give us the opportunity to go into a lot of areas that we might not have explored otherwise. The people at Waterway Guide have certainly been extremely nice to us, and have welcomed us into their fold. We’re looking forward to it with much enthusiasm.
We will leave here in a few day and start down to Ft. Lauderdale where our territory starts. From there down to Miami then down to the Keys to Key West. Hey…it’s a tough life!
Since we haven’t really done much since we’ve be back from the holidays, this will be a short posting. We’ll bring you up to date as we progress.
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