Home Sweet Home

When we last posted, we had arrived at Fernandina Beach after a 36 hour, windless trip from Fort Pierce. We like Fernandina Beach. It’s a picturesque town with lots of shops and restaurants. We are not really big on shops, but we do like restaurants and that is one of the reasons we stopped there. We had made reservations at Le Clos, a favorite of ours. We started with Escargots and Claudia had the Ahi Tuna while Peter had the seared duck breast. We washed it all down with a good pinot noir and followed with coffee and a créme brûlée. Sadly, the next day was Sunday and we learned that Fernandina Beach is an old-fashioned kind of place that shuts down on Sunday. Few restaurants open. We had hoped to have lunch at Kelly’s; it used to be known as la Bodega. We enjoyed dining in the open courtyard when it went by that name and we hoped to find Kelly’s as good. Alas! It was closed.

We met some really nice folks who were traveling on a 35 foot Pearson yawl (Anne and John) and their friends on an uncharacteristically navy blue hull Island Packet ( Dennis and Julia). We hope to see them again on our next cruise. Then small world that it is, we saw some folks from Colorado sporting WKU T-shirts.

The trip to Brunswick was largely windless although we were able to get a boost from the wind for a few hours. We passed under the Sidney Lanier Bridge and called the marina. What a welcome! One would think that we were long gone and considered lost! We motored past the shrimp boats and tied up to the same dock we had left, albeit on the other side. It was good to be home. It only remained to do a few boat chores and we could get in the car and head home to Kentucky. We did have two must dos. The first, a tradition, was to head for Fox’s Pizza Den the night of our arrival. The second, there was happy hour at the Oyster Shak the following Monday and several dozen oysters on the half shell.

The drive home with a stop at Harry’s (Whole Foods) in Marietta, GA was long. Arrival at Woodside meant stopping along our drive every few feet to remove fallen branches from the road. We arrived after the Redbud blooms but the Dogwoods and spring wildflowers were still in bloom and everything was green.






Our pooch was glad to see us and we more so to see her. So now we're CLODS (Cruisers Living On Dirt) and planning for next season begins. Meanwhile, the adventure continues!