We enjoyed a quiet Christmas dinner aboard, served up by Carey on a day of 70-degree temperatures, sunshine and light winds. Next day we picked up a rental car and began a few days of touring our old homestead area. We lived in this area from 2017 to 2021. As noted by friends and family, we move every four years! Carey, I found out, likes to live life in chapters … warm weather back to seasons … farmhouse in the country and back to small town. We’ve been back in Colonial Beach for a bit over four years … trying not to call her attention to that, particularly because she’s waxing nostalgic about the locale!
Saturday we met with a Starlink Contractor about installing satellite wifi on the boat. Although marinas offer free wifi, reception is spotty or seldom working. As we’re news junkies, we want to stream and want to stream news at any time and we can do that with Starlink, even in the Bahamas. On Sunday we had brunch with our dear friend Bonnie Scanlin at the Club House in Ballantrae, our old neighborhood. Bonnie is also an old Aquia Harbor resident and the widow of my best friend. There’s a number of previous Aquia residents and past fellow members of Aquia Harbor Yacht Club now living in Florida. And, a special resident here – just a mile or so from our marina – is the one and only Diane McKee! She abandoned CB several years ago and is sorely missed. We’ll be meeting up with her soon.
Below are pictures of dolphins playing alongside the boat as we traveled at 10 mph just north of here. and of places we’ve revisited. And, a picture of the anchorage outside of Melbourne where I proposed to Carey in 2006! Aahh!
