Truckin'

After planning out a place to haul the boat, a place to store the trailer and the method for retrieving our stuff, we rented a car, drove about 4 hours north, visited Ronnie’s Mom for a night, then continued up to Stuart, where we returned the car, hitched up our truck and trailer, and drove back down to Marathon – 5 hours to go 200 miles. Phew. Now we have the truck and will pull the boat here in Marathon when we decide to do that. Now we hope for better weather and the chance to do some things before we leave in a few weeks.

In the meantime the truck has expanded our horizons already. We put the bikes in the truck and drove to Key West for a nice pedal around town. Aside from the normal honky-tonk of Duval St. which was actually fun, with wild roosters and people everywhere, there were other interesting sights. We came across a display of bronze statues – lifesize or much bigger by J. Seward Johnson that were spectacular. We of course ended up at the southernmost point in the U>S> Altogether a really nice day, although the weather was a bit cool.

The next day we drove 35 miles the other way to a nautical flea market in Islamorada – big turnout, mostly crafts with some interesting, but unneeded marine stuff. First really nice day in 2 months – 75 degrees and sunny. Today, we plan on taking the dingy through the mangroves to a beach, where Ronnie plans on painting and Arnie will try some snorkeling. 2 nice days in a row!