The Adventure Continues

On the road again...well, the water...starting back up north. We'll take our time coming back and try not to get in front of the cold weather. Don't know how well we'd handle that since we had all these warm, sunny days.

This is a wrap-up of the past month in Marathon. In our last post I think I told you about attending the Centennial Celebration of the Overseas Railroad. Well, we made the paper the next week. No, we didn't get in trouble we just posed for the local newspaper with a few of the “characters” at the celebration.

This is the picture that was in the local paper.


We met a really neat guy from New Jersey when we visited Crane Point Nature Park in December. He was our guide on the tour and we've since developed a warm friendship with him. Here's a picture of us with him in his dinghy going to dinner one night. Because we don't have a motor on our dinghy we usual don't take it out at night. Some of the restaurants here are not in an area that you'd would want to bike to at night so unless our friends take us on their motorized dinghies, we eat in.

Now I know why I hate photos so much...shows me how fat I am.

We attended the Martin Luther King Celebration because the pastor of the church we'd been attending was one of the speaker. We have thoroughly enjoyed hearing him preach and we enjoyed his speech; caused us to think about some things that we might not have otherwise considered. Attire is a lot more relaxed here than at home even for church. We never see anyone in a coat and tie not even the preacher.

This is a picture of Keith making his speech.

When we win the lottery (and that'll be kind of hard to do since we don't buy tickers) this is what we want our next boat to look like. This is the Valkyrie and it spend a month here in the harbor across from us. Even though they obviously have lots of money they were nice people. Their boat did create some problems for us with wi-fi; not sure what caused that but service improved immediately once they left.

This is the Valkyrie; can you see why we'd like to have one like it!


Our neighbor in the boat behind us at the floating dock was an old gentlemen who has been here for 3 years. He lives alone aboard his boat and he celebrated his 90th birthday while we were here. Everyone knows Capt. Jack so his birthday was a big deal. He picks blooms off the bougainvilleas around the harbor and gives them to a different lady every day. Yesterday he came by and brought me a rose.

Picture of us with Jack.

That about wraps it up for Marathon. We enjoyed out stay but we're ready to get moving again. Will update you as often as wi-fi is available.