2011 - 5/27 - 6/6 - Hollywood (Florida that is) to Vero Beach

May 27th - We left Cooley’s Landing heading south about 2 pm.  We were each craving a burger from Le Tub, a funky, tiny place we’ve visited before…so about 3ish, we anchored in the North Lake, a short dinghy ride from the restaurant.  We never made it to Le Tub as sounds of laughter drifted out to us from another bar - GG’s.  We were greeted by a slew of partiers who took us in as if we were old friends.  Turns out getting a boat & cruising are Jeff & Linda’s dream & Eva has been boating for years. They invited us to join them for fresh fish tacos at their incredible house on the beach on Saturday, the 28th. See why we love this life-style ?

Linda, Wayne, Eva, Winnie & Jeff

May 30th - Here’s when it gets crazy - the kind of crazy only Wayne can create.  Here’s a summary:  Since we’re still in the States, he’d like to see his grandson, Casey Joe, graduate from HS;  Casey lives near Jacksonville-about 300 miles away; Wayne verifies the date is NOT 6/9 but 6/3 - 4 days from now; he wants to cruise up there…he’s pretty sure we can make it in time especially if we can travel ’outside’…but it’s too windy & we don‘t want to;  we cruise an agonizing 9 hours up the ICW having at least 30 bridges open for us; we anchor and rest in Lake Worth; we continued this folly the next day and cruised another 8 hours;  he was finally showing signs of exhaustion from

Memorial Day parties on the ICW

dealing with boat traffic, bridge openings and trying to stay in the channel; we finally talked about the situation and on May 31, we chose Vero Beach City Marina & we took a mooring; On Wed.,June 1st we took the dinghy to the Riverside Cafe where we were met by Dave & Ellen, the very gracious owners who treated us to a few drinks - dinner was delicious. Wayne left for Middleburg on the 2nd and I stayed on the boat with the girls (cuz I'm still "with cold"). I had a glorious 2 days all alone. There was a Frazier Marathon on Friday night-I must have watched 8 episodes and was up way past midnight! The master returned about 7:30 pm on the 4th. Sunday, June 5th - Treated ourselves to Brunch at Riverside Cafe - delicious and filling. Then spent a grueling afternoon of shopping for provisions. It took two dinghy trips to unload everything and now you want me to find places for all this stuff ??