It was weird to spend Christmas away from family. This isn’t the first time we haven’t been home – a few years ago, Chris, his parents and I spent Christmas in the jungle in Belize. And last year, we had our very first Christmas (celebrated on Christmas day) in our own apartment due to the […]
This week was all about final prep for the trip. Vero has a fantastic, free bus system, and on Saturday we headed over to Target and Lowes to get some school supplies to bring to donate in the islands, and we needed ratchet straps and a heat gun. It took longer than we’d hoped, but […]
The trip to Vero Beach took us through a narrow channel surrounded by spoil islands and shoals – in places the water was only inches deep right up to the edge of the channel – but it was a pretty trip. We topped off our fuel before pulling into our slip, and the first thing […]