Day 94
No Travel
We decided that we will travel by car to Nashville tomorrow. Renting a car here at GTB (Green Turtle Bay) is not an easy task. The closest place to rent a car is in Paducah, Kentucky which is about 45 minutes away. The Enterprise Rental place that provided the "we'll pick you up" service to GTB had no cars available for today. The other location could not come pick us up but are open on Sundays, so we signed up to use the marina courtesy car tomorrow to go get the rental car before taking our outing to Nashville.
GTB is full of loopers - many of whom we have met along the way and others who we have never met before. It can take extra time to move from one side of the marina to the other as one looper after another stops to chat and say hello. It does not help that our slip is at the remotest outpost of the marina. It is a long hike from the boat to the head, and I stress long - like a 1/4 mile long! That first walk in the morning seems like it takes forever to get there.
I decided that my first priority was the laundry since machines are available right in the marina. As I sat there doing the wash, Clark explored the ship's store. When he stopped by to tell me he was heading back to the boat, Bob from Melinda B grabbed him and invited him to join him playing guitars this afternoon. So much for any other plans, Clark was "all in" on that idea.
After finishing the laundry, I went back to the boat to feed Clark so he could go play. I then proceeded to clean the inside of the boat - scrub the bathroom and kitchen, vacuum the floors, clean the bedrooms, etc. I decided the outside is a lost cause and too much to take on. We have live and dead bugs from one end of the boat to the other. The covered slip is nice to keep cool in hot sun, but we have overcast, cool weather. The hated bugs enjoy the covered slip areas more than the exposed slips and seem to really like our boat.
Although the marina offered a boiled dinner tonight for $25 / head (crab, potatoes, corn on the cob, shrimp, ...), we opted to pass on that and took a courtesy car to the supermarket to load up on food. We reserved a courtesy car for 4:30 but when we went to get the car, the previous users had not returned. It quickly became clear that they would not return any time too soon either. Fortunately one of the folks at the marina told us to take his car, so we did.
We went to the local super market and picked up most of what we needed. When we got back to the marina, Clark dropped me off at the boat with the groceries and then went to return the car to the other side of the marina. I put away the groceries and waited for him to return to start dinner, and I waited and I waited. After 45 minutes of waiting I finally called him to find out where he got snagged. He was with the folks on Fryedaze, Plane to Sea, and Always Home having a good time.
I abandoned dinner plans and walked over to join him. We ended up sitting on the boat Fryedaze for much longer than expected. By the time we left and got back to the boat to cook dinner, it had already gone past 8:00. After dinner I immediately sat down to play catch up on blog entries.
Now here it is almost midnight, and we have a busy day tomorrow - getting the rental car and taking a trip to Nashville. I have done no planning whatsoever, so I have no idea what we will do when we get there. Linda from Bamma Dream gave us a couple of quick tips but otherwise, we are going in clueless, but I have a two hour drive to do Google searches on things to do in Nashville as we find our way there.
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