Day 139, Year 10: Farewell to Tom and Detta
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015
Weather: Cloudy, High in the 80’s F, Winds SW 20 Calming to Light and Variable Late
Location: Dinner Key Marina Anchorage, Coconut Grove, FL
For their last night aboard, Tom and Detta had a bit of rock and roll as the winds piped up to 20 from the SW. And those winds brought even warmer weather. Although it was cloudy, the temp today was in the 80’s. Tom had a business Skype call this morning from Germany and the rest of us sat in the cockpit and read. Once his call was over, Tom joined us and we continued our quiet morning reading despite the roaring winds. I took a deck chair out to the bow of the boat to read for a bit but it was too windy to really enjoy sitting out. Since this was Tom and Detta’s last day with us, we decided to relax and read until about 1 pm and then head to shore for a late lunch. We had Tom and Detta wear our foul weather gear and Mark and I wore ponchos. The wind was blowing hard and the water was rough, so we anticipated getting soaked. But Mark did a great job of getting all of us and Tom and Detta’s luggage to shore without a problem. Enterprise car rental picked Mark and I up promptly and we went to fill out the paperwork for the two-day rental. While we did that, Tom and Detta walked along the waterfront to Scotty’s Landing and we soon joined them there for lunch. It is a great little waterfront eatery that reminded us of so many of the places cruisers gather all around the world. And the food was good. After lunch it was off to the Fort Lauderdale airport to drop off Tom and Detta and then Mark and went into town to do a little food shopping. The Publix supermarket and Total Wine liquor store that we are familiar with are just a few minutes from the airport, so that is where we headed. We bought beer for the Bahamas trip and picked up some wine for our friends Ed and Lynne who are already there. Just the other day they discovered that all of their boxes of white wine have gone bad, so we will take them new boxes. Our supermarket run was mostly for paper products, but we picked up some food items as well. We were back aboard Windbird before it got too dark and we will take off before sunrise in the morning to head back to Fort Lauderdale. Tomorrow Mark has a cancer treatment followed by a CT scan. My sister-in-law Sue and her husband Brad are going to meet us at Holy Cross Hospital to bring us mail that we have had forwarded to them, and when Mark is done, we’ll all go out to lunch. We still don’t have a good idea of when we will be able to leave for the Bahamas, so we’ll just continue to enjoy our days here until departure.
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| 150226 Day 139 Florida, USA–Farewell to Tom and Detta |
