OK, we are fianlly in Miami, ready to launch for the keys. As my BRO said, it is great to be in FL, on our boat and it is awesome to drive around the boat on the dinghy and look at the rudder and the prop, try that on the Chesapeake Bay, never happen. We are thrilled and Bessie and I mention every day that it is hard to believe we are here. The water is amazing, the Manatees are cool to see and the places to anchor are everywhere. We are meeting Jason on Thursday, early in the AM, a taxi is dropping him where we will be anchored and I'll pick him up for a 5 day cruise around Miami, Key Biscayne, dinner Key and maybe out to Stiltsville and beyond ( all weather dependent). Our cruise today was fabulous from Boca Raton to Miami. The pic I put on the blog is our next home and boat. It has to be pretty neat to own a big home on the water near miami worth probably 5 mil, then own a yacht, tied up out front that is worth 10 mil and then, the yacht obscures the house, that is priceless. We are (obviously) thrilled, having a great journey and admit that this is quite the lifestyle. Boredom has been painlessly absent from our lives on the boat, we are meeting many amazing and nice people so as Bessie said several times, I can't imagine not doing this for a long time. I put one pic up here, and two others on flickr.

We are now in Miami Beach and left FIU Bay on the 24th. Thankfully I put a strong windlass on the boat before we started this journey, AND IT IS STRONG, when we left FIIU bay, the anchor snagged a cable (2 inch diameter cable) and the windlass pulled anchor and cable up to the surface, I unhooked the cable and we were free. Tomorrow AM, Jason arrives, we are looking VERY forward to our time with Jason.