Well it's Day 2 of our cruise and we arrive at Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas. While it is a tender port, the size of the tenders are huge and can accommodate a couple of hundred passengers at one go. Half Moon Cay is a cruise line owned island that is shared with both Holland and Carnival and over the years has evolved into a total-tourist "Gilligan’s Island". The pictures that I’ve attached cannot adequately capture the beauty of the color of the wa...

We left Bluffton this morning on schedule. The girls have been adhering to my somewhat rigid schedule. I needed to get going early as it's about a 6 to 7 hour drive from Bluffton, SC to Jupiter, Florida. We've scheduled to stay in Juno Beach with is just down the road from our old stomping grounds on Singer Island and Jupiter. It'll be good to see the old places after some 35 years. The truck has continued to run like a top, albeit it's a bit of a gas gussler bu...

Today was a busy day. When your away you always try to accomplish everything. Today was one of those days. We left the house at 09:00 a.m. to meet up with Judy and David who live here in Bluffton. What great people. Jean has known Judy for years and she wanted to make sure that we were introduced so we drove over to their magnificent home in Hampton Hall. After the usual introductions we all headed out to Beaufort, South Carolina. A town with endless tales of ...

Well today is travel day. We loaded up the huge Ford Expedition with the luggage and we head out on the road as planned for 08:30 a.m. We were all in agreement that we should head out via HOTlanta rather than going via Ashville. A few years ago when we were heading to Biltmore, we came across an accident on the highway up in the mountains and ended up getting stuck there for hours. We figured the best go would be to stick to the Interstate. The rental traveled l...

After loading up some of our antique furniture that we brought from Canada a year ago into a rented U-Haul truck, we headed out for Knoxville. Albeit it was a short drive this time, likely 2 1/2 hours drive east on Interstate 40, it did bring back some memories (both good and bad) of our six-day road trip from Vancouver to Murfreesboro a year ago last December. Our friend Jean had scheduled with her brother Alan to help me offload these into Jean's house so tha...