Vida Dulce arrived in Hollywood, FL from Isla Mujeres, Mx in early August with a delivery crew. Not the FL arrival we'd hoped for, however at least she is out of the still-closed Isla Mujeres, MX.

We left home Wednesday morning and are making our way down Hollywood in our airplane to avoid commercial airports and flights. Last night we overnighted in Natchitoches (pronounced Nak-a-tish as we found out by mispronouncing it several times...), GA with a fuel stop in TX. In Natchitoches, we got a hotel room and then phoned in an order for pickup at Sam's Southern Eatery for dinner and ate in the room. A true GA southern meal; yummy seafood!

We departed this morning to continue our trip. Our planned first stop, for fuel, was in northern FL but we didn't get that far. We were watching weather on the Garmin 1000 display / scope, flying in quite a lot of haze, around and under clouds, and the thunderstorms in the gulf kept encroaching on our planned route. From the forecasts we expected to need to divert a little north to get around the lighter parts yet those turned into more moderate conditions then severe ones. We made the decision to land prior to encountering any of the nasty stuff in Greenville, AL.

So, we're in a hotel room looking at weather forecasts and see that not only is it not looking soo good for the next several days, it will likely get worse before it gets better. There are two!! storms headed this way. Tropical Depression 13 is forecasted to become a Tropical Storm, then Hurricane Laura before it makes a direct hit on southern Florida. Tropical Depression 14 is forecasted to hit the greater Cancun area including Isla Mujeres, Mx before heading across the gulf to hit TX, LA and perhaps AL as Tropical Storm Marcos or hopefully Tropical Depression.

One of our favorite NWS meteorologists just happened to call on a Mintaka question so we took the opportunity to chat with him about the current weather and near term forecasts for FL, the storms that would become TS Laura / Marco, his additional info confirmed what we were thinking... Jerry called the Greenville airport manager to find out if they had an available hanger for rent (Jerry had already looked for hanger space in Hollywood, no joy); he had a space that Zelda would fit in so we left her there, rented a car and will drive the rest of the way.