Days 188 to 190 – at Snook Bight Marina - January 10-12, 2012

Dad arrived this morning and will be staying with us on the boat for a few days.  Since we had the car available to us, we took Dad to a great pizza place we found in Naples for dinner the first night.  We did lots of catching up on what has been going on with him and with us.  We also took advantage of having a car available and ran some errands (one to our favorite citrus store so we could stock up on more Star grapefruit).

Another errand was a trip to Camping World so I could buy a new folding bike.  We had purchased folding bikes online before we started the trip and they seemed fine as we rode them around the storage barn where Boreas stayed this past winter, but we really didn’t give them a full test run – that was a mistake.  My bike has lots of problems.  It seems to be out of alignment – as in the back wheel doesn’t follow the front wheel in a straight line.  There is also a problem with the rear brakes (which rub so hard it is impossible to coast), my arms are not thrilled with the handlebars (they fall asleep) and the seat is not at all comfortable.  We decided instead of spending money getting the alignment fixed and buying a new seat and handlebars, that we would just get an inexpensive folding bike we saw a few weeks ago when we bought the LED lights.  Then some time in the future we would work on getting the original bike in better shape.  So, the new bike is on board and Dad took the old one back to Winter Haven with him and will take it back to Michigan in the spring.

Our second dinner with Dad was a cook-out on the pool deck at Snook Bight.  Rita and John joined us along with Dick and Inga who are new owners of a Mainship 400 they are keeping at Snook Bight in the dock right across from ours.  It turns out Dick and Inga share a mutual friend with Dad – what an amazing small world it is.

It was a great visit and we hope to do it again somewhere along the east coast of Florida before Dad heads back to Michigan.

             Miles: 0           Bridges: 0        Locks: 0

Dad and I standing on the dock behind Boreas

Mac hanging out with us on the dock