Our last post was our last vacation trip on SYL in 2019. We left Madisonville, La where we had been living in Covington, La since 2015. We had our house on the market and left for our beloved Exumas. Our plan was to travel on SYL and our RV for the next few years and then to buy a house near family in Texas.
The Exumas trip was the beginning of that adventure. We came back to Florida in June, put SYL on the hard in Fort Pierce, flew back to Texas, got in the RV and came back to Florida. We visited friends in Florida then made our way to the Rocky Mountains in North Carolina to visit friends who have a cabin there (had a electrical fire under my seat in the RV- could have been bad but Rusty knew what to do so it was scary but not too bad). We headed back home via Kansas to see Rusty’s brother and was home for the holidays.
On February 1, 2020 we flew to La and boarded a Princess Cruise ship for a month long cruise to the South Pacific….more on that later—suffice it to say I love long cruises. However, when we disembarked on February 28th, 2020 the world had gone CRAZY! We chose not to fly back but drove back to Houston non stop.
That was the beginning of my self quarantine. I have many of the risk factors for Covid so I felt I had no choice but to isolate. We initially stayed on our RV in Buna, Rusty’s families land but soon saw that our plans to travel were out of the question so we started looking for a house.
One year ago we bought a house in Kingwood, Texas near all our young grandchildren. That is another story…..
Having been isolated for 15 months, lost a dear friend and a brother-in-law to Covid, we decided to take the vaccine and we are traveling again. Rusty builds boat that his son, Russ, drives for the NBRA race circuit and we are traveling for those races. Rusty also started a YouTube channel called “Redneck Boat Guy”, so he has been very busy.
It feels good to be OUT. After racing season which ends in September we will turn our attention to SYL. Rusty and his son Jonathon brought her from Fort Pierce to our old home in Kemah, Waterford Marina. Having been neglected for so long she needs a lot of work to bring her back to cruising status. Hopefully, we will be on her again before too long.
That is what we have been doing. My plan is to blog more and for now this is the format I will use. Will see if there is much interest here…..
Sea Yawl Later!!
Linda