Back in the USA

By Mike Jastrzebski

It’s good to be home, which for us is now Harbortown Marina on Merritt Island. We spent the first couple of days back catching up with friends, including Tim and JoAnne  from Ex-Patriot and Scott and Susan from Isadora. We met both couples last year when we first came to Harbortown and we happened to run into both couples while we were in Marsh Harbor in the Abacos.

In the last couple of days we’ve pulled down our sails and found a storage locker. Today or tomorrow we plan to clean and deflate the dinghy and put that in the storage locker too. We’re doing everything we can to prepare for the possibility of a hurricane so that we don’t have to do everything in the last minutes before evacuating from a storm.

Also, we plan on taking a road trip to Minnesota. We want to see the grandkids, but I guess you could also say we need a vacation from our Bahamas vacation. After living at anchor on a thirty-six foot boat for 4 1/2 months we’re going a little stir crazy.

It’s surprising how many things we missed while living in the Bahamas. Hot showers with unlimited water, grocery stores that don’t charge $40.00 a bag, reasonably priced restaurants, hell I’ve even discovered that I missed WalMart. And let’s not forget TV, dependable internet, and unlimited electricity.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining, just relaying the facts. Now I just have to get back into writing mode and we’ll be all set.

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