It's Saturday afternoon here in Key West and we still haven't seen the sun set at Mallory Square! That weather system, now known as Debbie, has been sending moisture our way and all over the Gulf of Mexico for days now. We had a lively sail down here from Miami - covered 135 miles with only 10 hours of motor time. I'm enjoying the way the boat sails while beam and broad reaching. In 20-25 knots of breeze, we do about 7 knots which is fine with me.

Marty Hagans joined us in Miami and has been sailing with us. He has to fly back to Vegas on the 26th from Tampa - so may have to catch a flight out of Key West then since we may lay over here until Thursday waiting for Debbie to go away. The forecast now shows the storm going north then west, away from us. We expect high winds this coming Tuesday.

The dogs are doing well aboard - we walk them three or four times a day since there's a nice fenced grassy area right at the Conch Marina where we stayed our first two nights since arriving. It's $3.75 per foot there and now that we moved to the City Marina, it's only $2.20 per foot.

We are off to happy hour in a few minutes at Turtle Kraals, a local restaurant, and they have oysters for 50 cents each!! Yippee - Yvonne is eager to get going so I have to finish this entry.

We plan to head from here to Sarasota and may stop at Naples on the way north. She will be getting a job in Bradenton or Sarasota in a couple of weeks after we go to South Carolina and pick up our Tahoe and drive it back to west Florida.

We missed the Sailstice celebration on Lake Mead - we hope it was a blast for everyone. Greetings to all our friends and family from Key West!