Serendipity

What a great word: serendipity. It was serendipitous to arrive in the Bahamas on Ernie's birthday. We didn't even plan that.

Maybe you wondered why we weren't leaving FL in December or even in January. There was some odd weather with 2 fronts per week, instead of the more usual 1/wk, and we had the wind generator to install in Dec. And we really did enjoy our stays in Brunswick GA with Dave P from LCYC, and St.Augustine FL(beautiful little city), and NASA Titusville FL(watching the SpaceX rocket launch with a front row seat was spectacular), and Vero Beach FL for Christmas, and West Palm Beach (cool place) and North Lake Worth FL including a visit with Helmut B from MBBC, and Fort Lauderdale incl visit from Walt and Doug from LCYC. And visits with Earl and Helen from Chicago, and Jim and Janette from Montreal, and many others we've met along the way.

North Lake Worth anchorage was particularly special for me. I take a lot of pride in my boat independence and opportunities to strengthen it when Ernie is off-boat. Ernie headed over to Tampa in January for a few plus days for his cousin's Bar Mitzvah. Some of you at LCYC might have met Dean when he was enrolled in the Junior Sailing program summer of 2014. He's the one who taught the young men how to cheat at cards when there was no wind.  Oh, TMI. What a fun, bright, athletic, cool kid he is!

We could have gone to the Bahamas and come back for Dean's celebration, but what if the weather window to come back wouldn't have transpired. Nope, that wouldn't do.  So we enjoyed our various anchorages in FL. After Ern's return, it was just lack of weather window that would be enjoyable for us. Until yesterday!! Woo hoo! We've left the U.S.