Day 107, Year 8: Boynton Beach to Little River
Date: Monday, February 18, 2013
Weather: Cool Morning, Warm Afternoon, Partly Cloudy
Location: Back Home on Windbird, Little River, SC
The plane is coming in for a landing in Myrtle Beach when Mark and I hear the pilot announce, “Welcome to Myrtle Beach. The current temperature is 36 degrees.” Since this flight was going on to Boston, we were certain he had announced the Boston temp, not the temp in South Carolina. But alas, we were wrong and the pilot was right. Thanks to our friend Lee Kaufman who responded to our telephone plea this afternoon to go to Windbird and turn on the heaters, it is not freezing in the boat tonight. The temp was only up to 61 degrees inside when we arrived, but it continues to steadily rise. And since there is no wind, it doesn’t really feel all that cold out. So we are home and all is well. And a special thanks to Patsy and Joe for picking us up at the airport at 10:30 on a cold night.
Today we enjoyed the day with Brad and Sue and Sue’s sister Ginny. Brad asked what we would like to do and I said I would love to go to the fresh fruit and veggie market that I had heard them talking about. I’ve enjoyed going to food markets all around the world and I wanted to see what south Florida has to offer. It reminded us of the market in Kuah on Langkawi Island in Malaysia. It is about the same size (HUGE), but the one we went to today had way more fruits and veggies plus plants and trees but no fresh fish and meat like the one in Malaysia. I have attached photos from our trip to Rorobeck’s Farmers Market today. The amount of food was overwhelming and we saw veggies we haven’t seen since returning to this country from our trip around the world. One vegetable that I often bought because it would keep out of the refrigerator for weeks was at the market today and called chayote. It is great in stir fry recipes and is sort of a cross between a cucumber and an apple in consistency. According to Wikipedia, “The chayote, also known as christophene or christophine, cho-cho, mirliton or merleton, chuchu, centinarja, pear squash, vegetable pear, chouchoute, choko, pipinola, güisquil is an edible plant belonging to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, along with melons, cucumbers and squash. Chayote is originally native to Mexico or Central America where it grows abundantly and has little commercial value, and it has been introduced as a crop all over Latin America, and worldwide.” What fun it was to see so much food. My only disappointment was that nothing was grown organically. In that regard, the farmers markets we go to on the Cape are superior.
Our visit with family and friends in Florida was wonderful, but as always, it is great to be back home aboard Windbird.
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