our not so favorite things

braden

Mar 4, 2012 — 1 min read

2 months and 4 days after we left our marina in Palm Beach Gardens we are finally home. Before the flight we had one last Bahamian meal – cracked conch and Kalik.

We boarded the 9 seater plane and left Staniel Cay airport right on time.

The plane wasn’t full… so Ethel got her own seat.

We flew over all the places we had been on this trip, so we got to see them one more time from the air – Big Majors Spot ( pig beach ), Sampson Cay, Warderick Wells, Normans Cay ( where our boat is currently anchored for the night ), Nassau and Bimini.

And then… Firehouse Subs for dinner on our way home from Ft. Lauderdale.

family time

The girls and I took a detour on our way to Puerto Rico and stopped in Florida to visit my family while Braden headed to the boat a couple days before us to try to knock some projects out. The last time we were in Jacksonville was in March 2023.

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