OtherGoose: Boat show days Feb 16-17

February 16-17

The last two days were exhausting. It’s about 80 miles to Miami from here...about 2-2 ½ hours but on 4-6 lane highways, and the speed limit is 120! Not so bad when you know where you. Joseph was directing from the back seat, the GPS was talking and Rick was reading the road signs so I had three different voices directing me! I had to drive because Rick’s license was expired and until he gets his new one from Ontario he can’t drive.

Okay, so Miami is a zoo; but a crazy, funny, funky people, funky clothes, amazing artists and musicians, multi-languages, hordes of rich, really poor, crazy drivers, stupid drivers and dumb tourists, awesome zoo. And not one you want to be in for very long. We saw two Quebec licenses plates in traffic, both of them rudely honking at our tour bus that was trapped in traffic at rush hour. There are so many theatrical places and... do I sound like a hick?? It’s a very cosmopolitan city and it was fun, even if we only saw a part of it.

The boats were fantastic and after looking at all the catamarans, we decided that we still like ours the best!

We spent yesterday running around with Mark and Gail looking for other things we didn’t see at the boat show. We went back up to Fort Pierce to the Marine barn for a second look, and other stores that Rick needed to see. The Hobby Lobby was a disappointment; it was more like Michael’s and hadn’t much of what he considered ‘hobbies’ ...trains, boats and other models.

Wednesday morning: it rained all night. We were expecting it. The temperature plummeted from 85 down to 75. Wow, eh? Today will be ‘cold’ according to the weather forecast...only mid 70’s and tomorrow even colder...high 60’s. [Gee, I can hardly stand it!] Then it will go back up.

We are going to head out in the next couple of days. This is a wonderful place but we don’t want to overstay our welcome. The owner is exceptional and his staff is great as well.

FYI: THIS may not be a daily post from NOW oN. Our hotspot will NOT work in the islands, so we will be relying on internet cafe’s and marina wireless [except we avoid marinas whenever possible.] We are not going to ‘refill’ it right now because we will lose any extra data on it as soon as we go offshore , and it’s a $100.00 a month to fill it up. We do however have a global phone now, so we can call from anywhere in the world except the Southern Ocean [not an issue]. This means that we can contact someone [at a dollar a minute U.S.] who will let everyone else know what we are doing. But I can’t access Facebook, so you will all have to read the blog. I think I can get to that to post.

Here are some pics from the last few days. Enjoy your day, whatever you are doing!