22
Mar 2009
So great of a time, in fact, that I haven’t had time to do a post. Time is still short and so will this post be short. Tomorrow afternoon, we will board the Miami Mermaid and Captain Bob Hamilton will teach us how to pilot a trawler. It’s a pretty sweet looking boat—click on the boat name above and check out the photo’s.
I won’t be able to post for at least the next week and then I will try to post a little at a time of the places that we have seen. My next post will be of our time in Washington DC where we spent three days with our son and daughter-in-law touring the nations capital.
Meanwhile, think of us this week crusing the intercoastal waterway on the Miami Mermaid. Sure hope that the weather holds.
12
Mar 2009
This morning we packed all our “stuff” into the truck and left the snowy north! As you can see, it is a darn good thing that we have a truck. We brought everything but the kitchen sink. We finally left the house at 8:30 AM and headed down the road. First stop was Newport Dunkin’ Donuts for a breakfast sandwich and a cup of coffee.
Weather this morning was cold and windy but clear and beautiful. It was a good day to travel. By the time that we got to Portland, there was noticeably less snow and just before Hartford there wasn’t any more snow. Yahooo!
We drove 420 miles today—we are not folks that can travel long distances each day, but hey, we are retired now and can take our good old time. We are in Fishkill, New York and guess what??!! The grass is greening up here. It is hard to believe that 400 miles can make such a difference. It is cool though. Temperature was about 38° when we arrived and there was a cold wind blowing.
Tomorrow we drive the rest of the way to our son and daughter-in-law’s home in Silver Spring, MD. I can’t wait! It has been much too long since we were able to spend some time with them. We will be sightseeing in DC over the weekend. Hubby, being a military man, has spent time in DC before but I have never been. Another adventure for me!
11
Mar 2009
If you’ve come in search of me,
I can be found down by the sea.
Feet in the sand, wind in my hair,
the Sea and Me, an inseparable pair.
We are packed (well almost) and ready to leave the snow, ice and mud for a month vacation. Whooo-Hoooo!! We are leaving for Florida tomorrow morning. While I never thought that I was they type of person to spend time in Florida in the winter, I find that these long, snowy, cold Maine winters seem much longer as I get older.
Last year, shortly after hubby retired for the first time, we decided to fly to Florida for a ten day get-away. In mere hours, we were in a warm sunny place that did wonders for our morale. We fished, walked the beaches and swam in the warm Gulf waters. I finally decided that maybe the snowbirds know what they are doing after all.
Hubby retired for the second time yesterday (he was retired for only six weeks before returning to work the first time). This time he says it is for good. 
This year we have decided to drive to Florida. We will stop on the way down to visit and do some sight-seeing with our son and daughter-in-law in Washington DC. Then we will continue on to Dania, Florida and the Miami Mermaid
, where we will spend the next four days learning how to pilot the boat. The captain will go with us and teach us all the fundamentals of running a trawler. There is, of course, more to the story of the trawler. Dear hubby is hoping to convince me that we should buy one and cruise around the ocean for the next four or five years. We’ll see…
I am taking the laptop with us and I will try to blog my way down and back. I would love to share some of the places that we visit and things that we do, so please stop by often. Now, if you will excuse me, I’m off to finish the packing detail. As Giddy from The Giddy Garden Gnome says “Life is really, really good”.
