Today is my 29th anniversary. I am really missing Carey on this trip. I think many wives would not have thought their husband leaving for two months without them was a very good idea. Carey might have thought the same thing in the back of her mind, but she also knew that this is one of my dreams, so she encouraged me as soon as I came home and asked what she thought of it. She has always been my support in all the things I have needed to do and most things that I have wanted to do. I love you Carey.
This Hollywood/Ft. Lauderdale area seems to be a really great place to visit. I never imagined this area with all the intra-coastal waterways before. We paid $20 for an all-day water taxi ticket and had a great time touring the homes and yachts that were along the intra-coastal waterways. I simply cannot begin to tell you all the money that is invested in those miles of waterways. There were many homes and yachts that belonged to people who started companies and made their millions as well as the movie stars. There really were some beautiful homes, but most of the cost was just the land. There was a person who had a 20 million dollar home and bought the home next to his for 7 million and paid 2 million to have the house torn down and yard put in for his two Labrador dogs. Now that seems to be just wrong.
In Fort Lauderdale they have a yacht and boat show the last week of October each year and they are currently setting up for it now. It would be awesome to come to the show someday so that you can see inside these yachts. There is a yacht that is here called the Cakewalk and it is like 225 feet long. It is the longest yacht made in America and carries a price tag of $165,000,000. I just can’t fathom someone buying something like that. It is a beautiful ship and there was a companion ship parked next to it to carry along all the support stuff for the Cakewalk. Crazy. We saw a sailboat owned by Senator John Kerry and numerous others.
We are staying in a hostel here. It is a little tight as far as accommodations go. There are two rooms that the twelve of us are in, but there is only one bathroom. Needless to say, that is why we must get out and find things to do during the day. I think we must have another Nor’ easter brewing outside again. Today the wind blew pretty hard from the northeast and it started raining tonight. We have the winds again predicted for tomorrow, which actually could blow us in the right direction. We also have a 60% chance of rain. I guess we wouldn’t want to get too spoiled with good weather.
They had a good old fashioned rock/blues band playing on the beach tonight. It was fun to just sit and listen to them.
Things are wrapping up pretty quickly on this trip. We have less than 200 miles to go and I will be flying home in a week. As I think back to the things we have done on this trip, in some ways it seems we have been here for a year and in other ways, I can’t believe it is about over. I do have to say that I am ready to go home.
A couple of the homes we saw
An anniversary gift for Carey
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