Houston, we have ignition
By Mike Jastrzebski
For those of you who are interested, our old atomic four engine is now working. The problem was water in the fuel tank. We also had the carburetor rebuilt. If all else goes well we will be on our way to the Bahamas by the end of April. Once there I plan on writing the third book in my Wes Darling series, tentatively titled Abaco Blues.
As you read this we are on our way to Minnesota via Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The out of the way road trip will allow us to visit with old friends and stop at the marina in Mobile, Alabama where I wrote Dog River Blues (A Wes Darling Mystery)
, the sequel to Key Lime Blues (A Wes Darling Mystery)
.
On our trip we plan to stop and visit with Gerald Dowling, a fellow writer and sailor that we met at the Seaside writers conference seven years ago. Gerald does most of his writing in a treehouse set along a river in southern Alabama.
Once in Mobile we plan to stop at the Grand Mariner Marina where we lived for two years and hand out a few copies of Dog River Blues (A Wes Darling Mystery).
After that we're heading up to Mississippi to visit our friend Barbara Korpi. Barbara lived on a houseboat at the Grand Mariner while we were there and was also a cruiser at one time.
Then it's off to see the grandkids. (And my son and daughter-in-law, but lets face it, the grandkids are the highlight of the trip.)
When we return home it will be work, work, work so we can get out of Ft. Lauderdale, but for now I'm going to put thoughts of the grind aside and enjoy our trip.
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