It was the winds buffeting the trailer that awakened us at six this morning. The dark sky and and the radar images looked ominous but ultimately the storm passed just north of us and we got just a brief patter of rain. Now we’re traveling east on MN-23 and not only is it so dark it looks like nightfall but Accuweather promises we’ll be driving through heavy rain. And now at 10:50AM we’ve pulled into a gas station parking lot along with other RVers letting a small cell of hail pass to our east. The storm is moving quickly so it looks like soon we’ll be out of the worst of it.
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
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!
Very dashing in that hat, sir. Do you feel an overwhelming urge to build a dam?