Day 201, Year 10: Transported to Italy
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Weather: Overcast and Rain, High Temp in the 60’s F
Location: Lightkeepers Marina, Little River, SC
Tonight Patsy and Joe transported us to Italy for a couple of delightful hours. They took us out to an Italian restaurant in Little River called Chianti South. Mark and I pass by this place every time we drive to and from Patsy and Joe’s, but we had never taken notice as it just looks like an old home sitting back from the road when you pass by. On closer inspection, it is an old home converted into a restaurant serving wonderful homemade pasta, bread, and salad dressings with their wide array of entrees. The wine menu must weigh five pounds and they even serve the Italian beer, Peroni, for beer lovers like Mark and me. Joe arranged for us to have a table next to the windows looking out on the side yard where there is a stand of 100 year-old live oak trees dripping with Spanish moss. After sunset, we watched little critters running around the under trees–a possum, a raccoon, and a few cats poised at the edge of the woods waiting for their dinner. The food was wonderful and we’ll all be eating left-overs for days as the portions were more than generous. Thank you, Patsy and Joe, for such a delightful evening.
The earlier part of the day was taken up with visits to doctors, one for Patsy and one for Joe, and a haircut for Mark. When we all returned to Patsy and Joe’s, we spent the afternoon completing the packing of special dishes and glassware and we then moved on to pack photo albums. It must run in the family. Patsy has as many photo albums as I do. But we got them into three large boxes and emptied another bookcase. Tomorrow is window cleaning day, so I’m hoping for some sunshine.
Mark is into passage planning mode. I start every morning listening to Chris Parker weather on the HAM radio. I take copious notes and summarize those for Mark. He then takes that information and checks other weather sources on the internet. We still don’t have a final plan, but it is looking more and more like we might leave here on Saturday morning and head straight for Cape Cod. But it is not Saturday yet and things could definitely change by then. So we will watch the weather, make the best plan we can based on the information we have, and then take off and see where the weather takes us. If we have to go inside, it will be more than two weeks before we get home. If we stay outside all the way, we could be home by next Friday. Only weather and time will tell.
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