Day 48 on the "road" again...

   All good things must come to an end???
 Also, I think that Lucky Us was may be getting a little jealous of all of the big kids on the block (I know that I am)...  -and this is the off season. So, after 2 very intense days of fun, We daparted Longboat Key Club about 10:30 am and continued our journey south. We had an occassionally eventful trip of 42 miles to near Englewood, FL. The forecast for the next 4 days is 60-70% chance of rain with thunder storms, but by heading south we had hope to escape the worst weather... The "plan" almost worked except for 2 very short periods of intense rain and wind gusts.


Lots and lots of bridges, but we only had to have 2 of them open. One of them was this really old looking swing bridge. It was unusual also since the bridge tenders office was off one end of the bridge. After we called, he closed the traffic gates, and then he had to walk to the center of the bridge to man the controls to rotate the bridge.

We arrived at our destination at about 4:15 pm. After checking into the marina and having dinner on board, we had a delightful hour in the pool and hot tub. It was very relaxing but there is a problem since now we need to stay awake for several hours to avoid waking up at 4:00 am.   ...or to be more precise, to avoid having the Admiral wake up at 4:00 am.  I am pretty sure that I would be able to tough it out until at least 8:00 am.