A week ago today, Saturday, we departed for Florida for a boat check. It's been several months and it's always good to make sure everything is ok with the Arc. We had plans to bring the Flair RV down to use as a guest house but someone had other plans.
It seems everyone was ready to go except for the Flair itself! Ha! As we were driving to Elizabethton, we noticed a clicking sound and as we went further along it got worse and we began to smell something burning. We immediately pulled over in the Auto Zone parking lot and called AAA and back to Stoney Acres we went. Carter worked all afternoon on this situation and decided that even though the caliper situation was fixed, there was likely something else that he wanted to check out before we took the RV for a long trip. We unloaded all the cargo going to Florida and loaded it into the Venza and departed the next morning.
Radar is such a good sport about traveling. He slept on top of that tote for the entire 12 hour trip.
We arrived at Our Little Marina pretty early, way before sunset. Carter, seeing the boat had turned green, decided that the first order of business was to take the Arc out into the river to give it a good pressure washing. Yea, it was pretty bad, but looks much better now.
We departed on Sunday and anchored at Masons Creek.
Florida still has beautiful sunsets.
Our first sunset on this trip.
Monday: Our first sunrise looking out the kitchen window. Anchored at Masons Creek.
Both Carter and I are getting anxious to get back into our cruising lifestyle and wake up to this every morning to a gorgeous sunrise and end each day with dinner on the deck with a beautiful sunset.
Monday we cruised down to just past Rice Creek and spent the day pressure washing the boat.
On Tuesday, we went to Crystal Cove Marina for a potty dump and fill the tanks back up with water. My bad...I used the marina hose which evidently was not drinking water certified and now we can't drink the water from our water tanks. It has a strong smell of rubber. Then we cruised back to Palmetto Bluff just in time to enter back into the canal to Our Little Marina at high tide.
Next up, Wednesday was to clean up the property. After months of neglect, it was in need of weed eating. Unfortunately, the weed eater decided to act up and Carter was not able to do a very good job but he was able to go ahead and cut down a few trees to enlarge the parking space in preparation for the Flair's arrival next trip down.
Thursday: After clearing the parking area, we loaded the whaler back onto the trailer so Carter could prepare it for another coat of paint.
On Friday, we drove over to Silver Springs to check out a small trailer for sell that Carter felt would be good for a flip but nope...had too much rust on the underside.
On Saturday, while Carter sanded on the whaler, I had decided to give our mini washer a work out and wash up dirty clothes before returning to Tennessee. I decided "The Juice Is Not Worth The Squeeze." LOL
It wasn't as fun as I remember it.
And where was Radar?
Sleeping like a baby in the back seat of the Venza.
He's a sweet boy.
We finished off this trip with a run to the dump and hauled off all the stuff I pointed out in the video.
Feels good to have that done.
Tomorrow, Sunday, we plan to pack the Venza back up and finish any little odd jobs we missed.
We will depart for Tennessee very early Monday morning. I have another appointment with the Urologist on Wednesday.
All missions accomplished. Good Trip.
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