FLORIDA................from K

We finally made it - I never thought it would take almost a month, but it's worth it. The sun just feels warmer here, although the wind is still kicking up to more than 25 kts today in the ICW. We couldn't even cook our hotdogs on the grill for lunch like we usually do.

We ate our Thanksgiving Winn Dixie pre-cooked chicken and stove top dressing while we were hard aground in the Cumberland Sound near Kings Bay (the magenta line on the GPS lied!). No problem, we just waited for the tide to come in and continued our sail down from St. Mary's River into Jacksonville, which is a lot like going into Norfolk because of the military ships. We anchored in the deepest basin yet - 27 feet! We weren't convinced our anchor would hold, but we did just fine.

We have done a lot of motoring this past month which can be monotonous. People ask us if we ever run out of things to talk about. Actually, I usually find myself "saving up" conversations for the evening when all is quiet and still. We've learned not to interrupt each other when the other is studying a chart or engaged in a book. Because of our close proximity, it would be easy to constantly be in each other's way, but that really is not a problem. I guess this is a bit of a carry-over from our lives back in the "real" world, where we rarely ever called each other at work and definitely did not yell for each other across the house. We've even gotten better at finding lost items on our own - if only we take that skill home with us!!