Underway Day 101:

Yesterday the weather was bad, and we enjoyed taking a day off to relax and eat home cooked meals after running so hard. Justin even let me use his grill, and I cooked up a delicious meal.

Our other friend Justin Ackley, aka Juice, drove in from Orlando last night. He was on the Mombo delivery crew in 2015, and he was in the very first blog post, on the shakedown cruise. He is going to join Mary and I for the ride up the East Coast of Florida for the next 3 days. It seems poetic that he will be the one who first left the dock with me on this adventure and he will be the one to return with us. The Alpha and Omega Crew Member award goes to Juice!

Today we untied from the McLane dock and began to run North for the first time in Months. It was a relatively easy and straightforward run up the ICW. We are now literally on the home stretch, and I'm always mindful that things can still go wrong.

It was perfect boating weather; calm, comfortable and overcast. The dolphins seemed to enjoy the weather as well. We saw dozens of them throughout the day, a few riding the bow wave and playing in the wake. Daily dolphins never get old! We even saw a few manatees, and the fish were jumping high, and very active.

We arrived in Melbourne, FL, hometown of Jim Morrison, and had lunch at Ichabods on the water before walking over the an Airbnb that we rented for the night. After settling in, we walked to town, hand a nice time at the Irish bar, and stumbled onto a large street festival. The band Cold War Kids put on a good show, and this seems like a pretty cool town. I'll have to come back some day, but for now, we are anxious to get home.