To while away the morning, we’ve gone in search of geocaches. We found one near the Cuckoo and one each in two different cemeteries. We failed to find one at the covered bridge but did see some Amish buggies! Â The weather has gone from overcast and chilly to drizzly and cold. Time to find a cuppa something warm.
  
  
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
The warmth we anticipated when we headed to the Caribbean in mid-January didn’t really materialize but the fun we had with our dancing friends and the great crew of the Margaritaville at Sea Islander more than made up for the not so favorable weather.
After lunch we found two more caches, one at a small town war memorial and another just outside a gift shop. A nice way to pass some time despite the chilly damp weather.