Every day has been more like a vacation for us as we continue to do the tourist things with Mike and Lynne like taking in a Mallory Square sunset, a tour of Duval Street and a walk through the Truman Complex. One night we happened to catch the Victoria Secret…

When you’re on the water, in our case for almost 4.5  years, and end up staying in one place for any period of time it kinda feels like a home away from home for us. In the case of Key West it’s a “Twofer”… this place is magnet for boaters,…

While at Albertson’s the other day, I (Jim) ran into Scott and Cindy Perkins (bottom-left), who were moored on their sailboat, Chip Ahoy in Key West’s Garrison Bight. We first met them while doing the Loop in 2006, they are fellow Michigander’s and Cindy is a contributor in both of our books…

After four months of being on the move we’ve gotten settled in our slip at Key West Harbour on Stock Island. This will be our home for the balance of the winter and early spring and we’re both looking forward to enjoying our time docked, not being on the move…

Louis and Diane drove down from Marathon, with their friends Reba (top-middle) and Jim (bottom-left), to pick us up for a shopping and lunch in downtown Key West. Lunch was at Black Fin where we met up with Karen and Donna, more friends of the Wade’s (top front-left and right)….

Florida Keys – here we come! We had a relatively smooth cruise  across Florida Bay to Marathon today. Vivid blue skies and turquoise water. We were so happy to meet up with all of our cruising buddies at 1 Palm Court (Sombrero Marina). We had to anchor out in Hawks…

Due to very unpredictable weather lately and having to pick our weather days to move along our route we had to move quickly through the Everglades. This was disappointing for us as this is one of our favorite places. Tonight we anchored out near Indian Key. It was calm as…

From Fort Myers Beach we took the outside route to an anchorage just outside of the Naples harbor right in the middle of some amazing million dollar homes. On Tuesday we moved to the Naples City Dock’s mooring field for a three day visit to catch up on some work…

After three days of extremely windy and cold weather we left Fort Myers Beach at day break, in relative calm waters, for the run to Naples.

First order of business when we arrived in the Fort Myers Beach harbor was to take on some fuel at Ballards (below). Jim enjoyed talking to the attendant, he had a lot of boating stories to tell. Next we had to grab a mooring ball to tie up to for…

A peaceful afternoon and evening in the right outside of Tarpon Point Marina. Tomorrow we head for Fort Myers Beach to wait out some predicted windy weather and to meet up with some friends.

We’re at Tarpon Point Marina in Cape Coral today for a reunion with some boater friends that we have not seen in awhile. They have rented a condo here so we decided to stay at the marina for the night to visit with them. As you can see from the…

The last time we saw Andy & Mary Sarver, Good News and Brad and Patti Salvage on Salvage Crew was last spring in Solomons, Maryland. At that time they thought they may be renting a condo in Florida on the Gulf Coast side this winter sometime and as luck would…

Early morning light in Pelican Bay was amazing. A bit windy while we were here and today we will be out in some of open, probably rough water as we make our way to Cape Coral.

We love the free dock the city of Venice provides for boaters. The downtown area is about a mile, or so, walk from the dock and the Crows Nest Restaurant, which we love, is just a few blocks away. Today we got here in time to see the Just Ducky…