Lately the text messages, phone calls and the emails have
all been about the weather, so I thought I’d give you the scoop.
After returning from Kansas City we got ourselves into a
great daily routine of riding our bikes by the river every morning then later
in the afternoon we’d do a few in-door projects (or King would take a nap)
while the rain passed. Later on in the
evening we would either visit with our new dock friends or whatever other social
thing we had planned.
In the last couple of weeks we have met some wonderful
couples living their dream. Here are a few:
A great couple from Joplin,
Missouri - Mike & Twyla Chapman (Yes, they got out of Joplin before the
Tornado.) are docked down the way from us. They like to go to the beach with us but they
especially like to host cocktail parties on their 42’ trawler . They said most of their friend’s thought they
were crazy to sell all their possessions and move on a boat. Imagine that! We all had a good laugh.
Bill & Judy Speary, they have
been on their Whitby 42 for over 20 years.
They have sailed from Annapolis, through the Chesapeake Bay, over to Bermuda,
across the pond to Portugal, the Canary Islands, and up and down the Caribbean. Judy is a true trendsetter. She has been playing the steel drums since
1996 and that is why they sailed to Trinidad so she could play the drums in a panorama
competition for Carnival. They came in
second place. She set-up her drums one
evening in the clubhouse and played for everyone. I still don’t know how they keep those drums
on that boat.
Bill & Helen on their 50”
power monster. They went with us to checked out some of the local events such
as the Blues, Beer and Food Truck Rally in Titusville. Shuggs, I’m sure you would have loved to
check that out. Their
a great couple and our go to source for all mechanical issues on our boat.
Then along came Isacc!
The Dock Master Ken here at Cocoa Village Marina made us button down the
hatches and place on all our dock lines, then we thought it was going to the west
side of Florida and we wouldn’t get much but that turned out not to be the
case. It seems that when the storm came
off of Cuba it split apart so that part of it went straight up the east side of
the Florida Coast. So we started seeing a lot of storms move through. More than
just our one a day rain squalls. Finally
it turned into two straight days of high winds and walls of rain. That is when King and I decided to have a
double feature day at the movies.
Today we only had a small amount of rain and the sun did
come out for a bit so I think we can get back into our normal routine. We rode our bikes today so you know we are
doing just fine.
