4/14/16

We are leaving Daytona heading for St. Augustine (54 miles). We have big plans; been looking forward to touring the oldest city. But our plans got changed real quick. Sonny got sick (upper respiratory) and the winds blew 20-30 mph with intermittent raining. He did go into town for a doctor visit but that was it!!! Poor Marena and Poor Me stayed on board the whole time. 4 nights. I cleaned the woodwork (which means the whole interior of the boat). It's all wood! And beautiful! That's one thing that drew us to the Ocean Alexander. Anyhow; when we come back down the east coast this fall we will spend time in St. Augustine then.................We were not in a marina; we were on a mooring ball. Our first time. I loved it; and they even came to our boat to pump out the holding tanks! Yippee!

Mooring Field

Poor pitiful Sonny

Mooring Field

Mooring Ball

4/11/16

We stayed a couple days longer than planned in Titusville because of weather. When it's windy; we don't go! We are now headed to Daytona Beach, and we crossed a milestone. We have traveled 3000 miles since leaving Nashville in August.The marina here is Halifax Marina and has 550 slips! We rented a car while there to tour the race track. It was lots of fun even went into victory lane. Our guide had been going there to races and just hanging around the track for over 50 yrs! He had some stories to tell.................. We walked through old Daytona and ate at a restaurant there.
The air conditioner in the front stateroom died; so we had technicians check it out while here, then made plans to install a new one on up the coast. Oh yeah; the washer/dryer died too. I'm sick over that; it'll get replaced sometime. It's always something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The track

Hunt Brothers Pizza car

I'm partial to all things Toyota

Toyota Camry race car

nothing left to say.................

leaving Daytona

4/4/16

We left Cocoa Village heading for our anchorage @ Nasa Causeway Bridge. It was only 15 miles away from the village. This is the bridge that takes the traffic over to the Kennedy Space Center. The night was nice and quiet and we were in site of the assembly building. The next morning we took our time; Titusville Munical Marina was only 6 miles away. This will prove to be a great stop! While there a sailboat pulled in from Hawaii, traveling around the world. They change crews about once a month. They are raising awareness about protecting our earth. When you see the pic I have posted, you will see their website. The reception they received here was absolutely amazing! It looked (and sounded) like half the town was here!! Within the next couple of days they had interviews, photographers and the city doing various get-togethers. We rented a car one day to run errands and go to The Kennedy Space Center. I'll have to admit this was a great, great tour. We have been riding our bikes around town, trying to get a little exercise. On Friday @ 4:43pm there will be another launch sending provisions to the satellite. We are going to ride our bikes to the bridge closest to us and watch from there.

NASA Causeway Bridge

Sailboat

Us @ CrackerJack's under the bridge

Marena in the bike basket

Manatee right beside our boat (you can tell; can't you?) 

Kennedy Space Center

A REAL ASTRONAUT!!!!! lol

Mission Control

NASA assembly building

Transport shuttle for astronauts

Atlantis! The actual shuttle is on display......

Kennedy Space Center

3/31/16

Sandy n Rob in their American Tug

Leaving out early today heading for Cocoa Village Marina. Beautiful day for boating! Act III (Jeff n Susan) went on to Titusville and Sandrobber (Rob n Sandy) is stopping with us. This little village is very nice, we are only a few blocks away. Sandy n I found a great hair salon (Studio 2 Twenty 4), where we got re-beautified (head n toes)! Then the next day we all walked back to The Village for morning special coffees,and shopping. Love the little shops,especially the Olive and Grapes store where we loaded up on oils n vinegars! Also ate dinner at "The Tulip", great food. Anyhow; had a fun, fun time with Sandy n Rob..............

Judy on "Janus" sailboat @ Cocoa letting me play her pan drums

Sonny's turn!!!

Judy Speary on "Janus"

Leaving Cocoa Village Marina

A look at the condos @ the marina

3/28/16

Today is a short ride, only 15 miles. We are headed to Loggerhead Yacht Club at Vero Beach. This marina is very nice, great facilities and a pool. It's at Grand Harbor Resort, which includes condos, private homes and golf courses. Everything was too far away for walking, so we rented a car with Rob n Sandy to go and re-stock! Lots of rain while here...............Jeff n Susan pulled in on our last day here, so we all got together and played "Jokers". fun, fun times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3/26/16

Otis Cadillac n The Eldorados

Tiki Bar

The Seville Sisters

Jazz Band

Sonny, Marena n I w/The Seville's

Tiki Bar

We leave out early this morning headed for Ft. Pierce. Traveled 50 with lots of bridges, but only a few had to open for us. We got here at 2:00; just in time to prepare for the music festival on the docks. There were seven bands that played from 4 till 11...............music was great and we were right beside one of the stages. We met a couple from the band "Southern Drawl". Most of the members were from Knoxville, but the lead singer (Mike Nash), was from Mt. Juliet. This was on Saturday; but starting Sunday was a week long Jazz n Blues Festival. We went to the festival on Sunday and really enjoyed it. Our Favorite group was Otis Cadillac and The Eldorados featuring the Seville Sisters!!! Man could they sing the blues.....................sometimes you just get lucky!!!

Old Port Cove Marina in North Palm Beach

We traveled 35 miles, 14 bridges and 10 had to open for us to pass through. Were only planning to stay 2 nights but stayed 3 because of weather, storms going through the area. We really like it here, with nice facilities. There is a restaurant on site that has great food. The staff is super friendly and accommodating; gave us a bottle of wine (yay),  plus Marena gets a treat everytime we go to the office! They had a free shuttle service that took us to Trader Joe's (I sure have missed my Trader Joe's) and Marshall's. Sonny really enjoyed me taking him shopping with me. Lol  We had lunch at Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza. It was to die for................. They have floating docks, something we hardly ever see and we will stay here again!!