You read the miles correctly, 1034. It was in a rental car instead of our boat though. With the state of Florida pretty much shutting down, we decided to rent a car and drive home. We figured we would have more room and be more comfortable at home instead of just sitting on the boat. Weather may not be as nice, but the leg room is.
We had a local driver take us to the Melbourne airport which was about 35 miles north of Vero Beach. We got lucky again with the rental car from National, getting a Suburban. Was like driving a small bus, but it had plenty of room for the dinghy mount and Lucy seemed to like roaming around. We packed and closed the boat up and headed home at 6:30am on Tuesday. 14 1/2 hours later, we pulled into our driveway. Thanks to everyone we talked to on the way home, it helped pass the time. For the most part traffic was pretty light. Most of the rest areas were open and we were able to get McDonald's as well. Only encountered 1 accident in the mountains that cost us about 15 minutes. Rest of the time the cruise was set on 82mph.
The boat's new home for at least the next 30 days.
Our plan is to wait this thing out at home and then hopefully continue our trip. As I said in an earlier post, it is harder to find open marinas, and when you do, the pools, restaurants and towns are all closed. We will do some "what if" planning based on some projected timing of when things might open back up. My plan is to still drive back down to the boat in a few weeks to repair the dinghy mount holes where the screws got ripped out, reinstall the modified (reinforced) dinghy mount and replace our salon air conditioner. I say that this is the plan right now because Florida continues to add restrictions and curfews, so not sure if it will be possible for me to get back to the boat at this point.
For those of you that have been wondering, Cluck Norris is still with us and doing fine. He did not like some of the rough water that we had to go through though. He was sad to see us leave but said he would keep an eye on things until we got back.
I have some top line statistics of our trip so far that I will share in my next post. Not sure how much there will be to talk about over the next few weeks, but at least you can look forward to that. Hopefully we will be able to see and catch up with family and friends while we are home - from 6 feet away of course.
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