The marina is a bit haphazard, with people obviously living on their boats even though it is 'not a live aboard marina' - and some re floated derelict boats. But the price is right and the ocean is near so we are happy! There is an excellent lounge with blazing internet, so those of us with jobs can get caught up.
It's been great to stay in one place, and we have had a rental car so we are mobile for the first time in a long while...
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| Our little dock |
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| Once again in Hollywood sand! |
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| Dania beach |
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| Well there's a face only a mother could love. He's got Betty Davis eyes... |
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One morning we go to Grampa's Bakery for breakfast. It's an institution. AND it was feature on Rick's favorite show with Guy Fieri so Rick is IN HEAVEN...
We've gotten to see lots of friends - so great to get caught up!
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| Friends from our Turner days - Val and Mauro XOXO |
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| Friends from our Hollywood Dayz - Cory, Susand & Barry |
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| Billie - one of our three faithful readers. See - we do home visits to our top readers! |
We get to visit such beloved old locations such as: Home Depot, Target, Home Depot again, KMart, Home Goods and, once AGAIN, Home Depot. Our new friends (Mike & Sharon) on the twin boat joined us at the marina for a few days and he has a portable saw, which Rick covets. Rick even invented a project (taking the foldout bed out of the couch and turning that space into storage space) so that he could use the saw. I expect that, soon, the new storage space will be storing a portable saw...
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| Twin-ing! We are on the right - Scout on the left. |
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| Sharon and Mike are over for breakfast - avo toast |
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| Rick and Mike GEEK OUT at a crazy hardware store |
And we went back to the Miami Boat Show. That is where all this started, one year ago. Now we go back as boat owners who have to buy shit for the bottomless pit that is a boat. As Rick says, 'boat' stands for But Only Another Thousand....
Even when we are OFF the boat, we see boats -
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| That's one way to get the boat from one place to another. It's undoubtedly faster than our method. |
We had a chance to walk on the beach, and to take a bike ride down the entire length of the Hollywood Boardwalk. A trip down memory lane, seeing all the places we remember.
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| After we moved to Atlanta, we used to come back every spring break and stay at the Tides Motel... |
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| 'God Rays' on our last day. |
It was a great visit, barring that part where the tide went so far out we were sitting on the bottom.
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| Derelict boat - but it's spooky discos lights are still trying to party |
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| As a diver, this really makes me laugh! |
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Yummy Quarterdeck restaurant right across from our marina
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