2 JUN 2016
We made it, just, to our youngest's graduation. To do that we had to pull in at Stuart, Florida via the St. Lucie River Inlet and tie up at a marina, rent a car and dash north the last 200 miles at 75 mph. But we got there in the nick of time. And had a marvelous time celebrating her accomplishment and setting her up to head out into the world herself. She drove herself, by herself, across most of the southwestern US to go stay with my mother while she (Emily, not my mother) hunts for a real career-type job.
Probably no reasons now to go on to Jacksonville, so we are staying put in Stuart. We really like it here. The home town of Jennifer's good friend Karen from school days in Rhode Island. The home base of Frances Langford. Quaint downtown with shops and restaurants. And up the road in Ft. Pierce there's ... Marine Liquidators!! On the plus side, the marina has floating docks (we aren't on one but we will ask to move in event of a named storm approach), good services, great location w.r.t. town, lots of liveaboards, tolerable cost, and about as far from the east coast of Florida as you can get on the east coast of Florida for protection from names storms. On the downside there's a big road bridge near us, and the water is grossly polluted by the discharges from Lake Okeechobee. Most of that is due to the cane growers pumping their discharges into Lake O. But we are staying. Is the best of a limited set of choices when we have to be doing so much in various places in the US this summer.
If you are passing through Stuart this summer, stop in and say 'ahoy'!
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