Twelve Days

In the last 12 days we have:
Driven to Fort Lauderdale (twice)
Crossed the state to Naples
Visited Cory Jessica and our new grand dog Kingston

Driven north to Punta Gorda to visit my parents:

Headed further north to Tampa to see the grand kids....

drove back across the state to Merritt Island and the boat.

I feel like I did 2 years ago when we crisscrossed the Chesapeake over and over!!!

We made a decision on the generator (FINALLY).  Gary really wanted to get the $$$$$ new one, but had decided that if we could find a used manifold to replace this:

The generator people said this was toast..so after a frustrating week of unreturned phone calls we drove to Fort Lauderdale to a 10,000 square foot Marine Surplus dealer and in 15 minutes were back on the road with the manifold we needed.  Our lucky, lucky day....
We're talking $350. (plus gas) versus $8,000. (and a heart attack!)

The bane of Gary's existence...actually it should be a picture of the boat!  Tending a 27 year old boat is just trading one problem for another on a continuing basis!  He installed the manifold today, started the genny up and she will now live to see (hopefully) many more days.

Oh yes, and let us not forget.......