We suspected last evening that we would get rain during the night. With that in mind we packed up our outdoor furnishings before bed. Indeed we got rain throughout the night and all morning so far. It’s been sufficiently light to allow us to cook a breakfast that we ate inside and to break camp without getting soaked. Now we are on our way in the rain to Kinderhook, home of Martin Van Buren.
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.
Very kind of Nature to rain on a travel day instead of a site visiting day.