Last Days at Legacy and we're off!

It's getting time to empty the dock box and point Tourist to the North. Our destination for the summer is somewhere in the Kentucky Lakes area. We don't have any particular schedule as to when we want to arrive there but I know from past experience that once we're underway it's hard for me to stop and smell the roses until we reach our destination.
Before we left we had time to take in one more Art Walk in downtown Ft. Myers which started with dinner at Ichiban.

Pam & Bill too full to move after dinner.

We finally got them off the chair in time to see Jesus.

 This young lady was more than happy to strike a pose for the camera.

 By now Bill was in need of support.

 Not to be left out the NSA had a drone watching the festivities.

 We were amazed at how this VW came through the wall unscathed.

 There was even an aerial show in the middle of town.

 This guy was performing spray paint art. And oh yeah. We hit the Cigar Bar.

 A few days later we got Bill, Mary, & Ted to pose for a family picture before they headed back to Canada.

For the past couple of years we have been wanting to return to a German restaurant we had eaten at one of the first years we wintered here. Luckily Rich & Diane (M/V RiDi) asked us to join them and Bob and Linda  (M/V Erika Lyn) for dinner. It was buffet style and did not disappoint. Yumm!

 Pam surprised Diane on her birthday with flowers.

As I stated earlier we are planning on boating in the Kentucky Lake area this summer. Good plan but it does present a logistical problem. What to do with the car? Answer: move it to Kentucky. So we did. We got a rental from Enterprise and Saturday morning we took off. Me in the rental and Pam in our car. Up I-75 we went. All was well until we got to Tampa and then it stopped. Bumper to bumper, sometimes moving, sometimes stopped. We wasted time in this mess until Ocala where we decided to go cross country. Past Tallahassee and into the panhandle where we bunked for the night. The next day we cruised through Dothan, Al. home of the National Peanut Festival! On to Montgomery and Birmingham. Through Nashville and into Kentucky.

 Pam in my rearview mirror somewhere in northern Florida.

Rest area near Huntsville, Alabama.

 We dropped the car off in a lonely parking lot to await our return.

 The view of our summer marina.

After dropping the car we did a U-turn and headed back to Florida.

 Of course no road trip for us is complete without multiple stops at Pilot for their coffee.

 We found this cow in southern Georgia. The same place we ran into a guy smacking a pipe into the bed of his pick-up truck. Turns out he was killing a rattlesnake that was in the bed of the truck! No Lie!

 Monday afternoon we arrived back at Legacy after 1926 miles and stayed awake long enough to take this shot of the full moon.

 Wednesday came and it was time to go. One last shot of the marina and Highpoint condo's.

 Our first night we made it to Cayo Costa and decided to hang it up for a couple of nights.

 The second afternoon rain moved in and curtailed our tanning.

Friday we were on the move again passing through the Boca Grande Bridge enroute to Venice for a couple of nights to visit my Uncle Leo and wait out a weather system.

 

While we were tying up our last days at Legacy my son Addam's favorite girl turned 10.

 

Future Harley rider? Happy Birthday Kate!