We have our own personal car here in Florida, so we keep pre-positioning the car to a place further down the way where we will be arriving later with our boat. We moved the car from Fort Pierce to Fort Myers before coming here, and today we moved the car from Fort Myers to Marathon, Florida. Round trip that calculates out to over 500 miles we drove! We left at 8:30 this morning and got back to the boat at 7:30. We rented a car and drove two to Marathon and one back. Long day!
After stopping into the office at the marina in Marathon to let them know we had arrived with the car, we looked around the docks a bit to stretch our legs before getting back in the car for another five hours. We saw a couple of Mainships including a 350, but none of them had names we recognized. Walking along the far dock, we got quite a pleasant surprise as I saw Third Degree at dock, and luckily, Faith and Jim were aboard.
We talked for a while and found out that we will both be at the marina for the month of February. I am so excited to know that they will be there when we get there via boat! It's been over a year since I saw Faith. We walked in a "Turkey Trot" 5K race together in November of 2015! After seeing them briefly on New Year's 2016 in St. Petersburg, we traveled our separate ways.
With a five-hour drive looming over us, we could not stay to chat very long, so reluctantly we said our au revoirs. At least on the way back, Clark and I could travel in the same car. Route 1 through the Keys has a lot of slow speed limits and traffic. Unfortunately, on our way back to Fort Myers, we hit school bus traffic in the Keys as well, which slowed us down quite a bit more. I thought we would have more delays when we got to I-75 and saw the red traffic line displayed on Google Maps. Luckily, most folks seemed to want to head towards Fort Lauderdale. The route to Naples and west became nearly empty after we passed the Fort Lauderdale exit.
The most excitement of the drive turned out to be the sunset we saw as we drove through the Florida Everglades. Surrounded by clouds, the sun looked more like planet Jupiter than the sun. Clark had me take a quick photo through the windshield so as not to miss the spectacle. As I took the pictures, the sun had already started to emerge from the clouds.
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| Sunset in the Florida Everglades |
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| Sunset in the Florida Everglades |
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