Best Western Vero. Vero Beach

I flew down south to visit some old friends who just got engaged, Justin and Emily, before heading abroad. They recently moved to Ft. Pierce, Florida where the average age is about 81 and all of the 4:30pm dinner reservations are already booked. To their credit, they do live right near the beach and have a boat docked about 200 feet from their house (the only ...

Fort Pierce has one of the most unexpected coastlines on the Treasure Coast in South Florida. From the high-rise skyline to the beaches with turquoise waters to great places to stay and eat. plus well kept state parks, an exciting sea-side city center. Fort Pierce is a must see. One of our personal favorite ...

... activity. No one really had a handle on the squall activity.

So, as we all ultimately do, we make our own decisions about what we'll face based on whatever scratchy information we can put together. Our plan was to stage our exit from Great Sale to Mangrove and then if it looked good onto Memory Rock (just a small rock!) if it looked good cross the Gulf Stream.

The bank was extremely calm with a south wind. It was one of those days ...

... which is pink. Temperatures in NH had still been below freezing overnight so we hadn't de winterized until the morning we were due to leave.) So after mopping up and ordering a new part to be picked up in FL when we get there, we set off to pick Trish up from work and carry straight on. Malc drove the first day, so we did about 460 miles before overnighting in a Wal Mart campground... you can see from this piccie that ...

... boats in the anchorage and some left and new ones came all to experience MOTHER OCEAN and her beautiful gifts.We found several rare shells and really enjoyed almost the whole beach to ourselves.We stayed a couple days then the winds changed to the south so we decided to pull anchor and head North past Hutchinson Island,Ft Pierce were ...

... for the Exumas. We may do the Abacos after the Exumas in the spring before heading north. Our original plan has always been to enjoy the boat during the winter in Florida and marina prices are far less than what we paid to leave the boat in Rhode Island in the summer. We looked at some house prices in the windows of realtors offices today while walking on the ocean front at Vero Beach. There seem to be some affordable places but we can have a lot of ...

... and all the people I had the opportunity to lead to Christ, I was overwhelmed by God's grace in ordering our steps. In the midst of all the planning for the team and rushing around trying to get things accomplished, it was very easy to see that afternoon in the plaza as one more ministry activity for the week and to take lightly the eternal significance of those few hours. However, though I may have been walking out the schedule and my brain may have been in ...

... driver even slowed to point out three alligators as we drove beside two canals. The guide book stated that the refuge hosts over 500 species of wildlife including 21 on the endangered species list. Kennedy Space Center has changed dramatically and is second only to Disney World as a tourist attraction. Spaceport USA hosts twin IMAX theaters which show two space movies, one in 3D. Seeing any IMAX movie is quite an experience but in 3D it is truly awesome. I ...

... little to the west of Cocoa Beach. Stormy, rainy and cold during much of january and february, with march being real nice again, but by the end of april into may it starts getting too hot for anybody that has to actually work outside down here and can't go to the beach every day. The other thing it did to me living down here was the fresh oranges and grapefruit were so ...

When I got up I headed for the coast-Cocoa Beach and Canaveral Pier. I lived down here the first year out of high school so I could surf and I wanted to see some of the places I had been, especially the pier. That was a trip coming down from delaware. I hitchhiked most of the way and the only problem I had was in Daytona Beach and I'd like to insert my negative take on that place, and if I convince one ...