Road Trip

May 4 - 6, 2011

May 4th

Since we are going to be in Stuart for a month, we decided to pick up the Boxster in Longboat.  We rented a car and took off across the state on the back roads.  About five minutes underway and a bobcat ran across the road.  We had to slam on the breaks to keep from hitting him.  It all happened so fast I didn't get a picture -- darn it!  Ok, this may be an interesting drive.  The road is two lanes with trees making a beautiful canopy overhead.  On each side is extreme vegetation growth (and, probably, alligators and pythons). 


When it does open up there are cattle grazing, sod farms or citrus groves.  This is the first time we have seen groves with young trees planted on the perimeter.   

The most common critters along the road were black vultures. They were sitting on every pole, dead tree and post just waiting for something to drop in its tracks.             

Once we picked up our car we had lunch in St Armands at our favorite restaurant, Tommy Bahamas.  When lunch was completed, the manager stopped to ask us how we liked our meal.  I told him,"if I was on death row and it was time to choose my last meal, this is what it would be -- their fish tacos".   





Driving back to Stuart, we came across a controlled burn along the road. 




May 5th


Hope you had a good view of the super moon.  I never heard it called that in previous years, but it definitely lived up to it's billing.  This is the evening when the moon is closest to the earth. 




May 6th

Ingred and Ron are in the slip next to us.  They are an interesting couple.  Ingred had a business refinishing the teak on yachts.  She was so good that the Rothchilds brought their boats to her to have work done.  She and Ron recently sold their sail boat and are refurbishing a fishing boat.  They have done an amazing job taking a boat that was in horrible condition (mold infested, filthy, almost everything needed work) and turning it into a very nice one.  Ron told us today that one of Ingrid's other accomplishments was playing a piano solo with the San Francisco symphony when she was 16.  You never know who a person is until you take a the time to sit down and talk with them.  Most everyone has a story -- the fun is discovering that story. 

Gotta smile -- we're lovin the ride!