One of the great things about Fort Myers is that it's on the Okeechobee Waterway, and thus not only can you get from here to Key West, but from here to the Bahamas also, without going around the Florida peninsula, provided your draft isn't too large. It also means that there are many sheltered places upriver to keep your boat in hurricane season. As H-season gets worse each year (on average), this is a valuable circumstance of real estate, from a boatie's perspective.

We are all healthy and attending work with proper Covid-safety precautions. Grant's college is considering being entirely online for the fall semester; that would be really different for them as they pride themselves on small conference-style classes, but I think there's a novelty and future-orientation to it that kind of also makes it an adventure.

Wishing you all safe harbors, virus-free voyages and sweet sailing!