Back on Terra Firma

We are back in Road Hazard and getting the "house" back together. All the fun stuff, washing clothes, cleaning, grocery shopping and the honey do list. I thought I wasn't working anymore? Where is all this crap coming from? I going to need a vacation after all this work.

Right now we are in a campground in Homestead, Florida. We decided to stay here for a few days because first, the RV was stored right up the road from here and second, we wanted to get things back together before we started out again. Well, the truth is, it's still warm down here and we are afraid to go any further north and run into that white stuff that falls from the sky. Homestead has two things: Big NASCAR race track up the road and Homestead Military base. Not much happening here. Rednecks and guys in uniform carrying big guns. We are here until Monday.

We had an incredible time with Deb and Charlie visiting all the different islands in the Marsh Harbor area of the Abaco's. Did you know that there are over 700 islands that make up the Bahamas? We could spend over a year there trying to explore all the different islands. Charlie, what are you doing for the next year? Lets go...

What I am going to do is break up the next several days blogs into the different days we spent in the Bahamas. Along with the blog I will upload pictures. Be sure to click on the slide show so that it will make the pictures full screen and you can read the captions to understand where we were and what we are doing.

This first round is our arrival to Marsh Harbor. Here is a map of the area and I have place a red dot to indicate where we are for today's blog.

We spent the first day traveling and spending time with Deb and Charlie to catch up on everything. Let me back up just a little first. We had to get into this tiny prop plane to get to the Bahamas. The ticket counter is in the last building at the airport. You walk into this building and there are a few small counters with attendants that look like they just passed their GED. While we are checking in the lady asked us each how much we weighted. The plane is so small that they have to account for every pound. After we checked in we sat close by and were entertained by the people that would go up to the ticket counters and get just as startled as us when asked their weight. One woman gave her weight and the women behind the counter didn't believe her so she made the passenger get up on the scale that you normally put your luggage on. It was like having front row seats to the Jerry Springer show. Jer-ry, Jer-ry, Jer-ry! The plane is so small that it only holds 8 passengers and for you to walk down the aisle you had to bend over at the waist. One seat on each side of the aisle. We sat in the first row, right behind the cockpit. Of course they never closed the door because I don't think they even had one, so we could watch everything and look out the front window.

On our first night we went to this restaurant called Snappas. There was a live local band playing with this guy playing a saw. That's right, a saw. He had a screw driver and would run it along the teeth back and forth in time with the music. Sounded pretty cool. You definitely don't want to be drinking when you play that instrument. You may end up with less digits. There was also some maracas that we had fun with trying to look cool. I need to get a pair of those things. It was a great evening but the trip hasn't even started! On our first night on the boat we were sitting on the deck when we heard all these people blowing conch shells. It's tradition to blow your conch at sunset. Pretty cool to be watching all these colors across the sky and hearing these conchs all around you. We took over 600 pictures and 10% of them are just of sunsets. I never tired of looking at them. Every night it was exciting to see what display you would see.The next morning it rained very early so by the time we woke up and looked outside there was a beautiful rainbow. Is that a sign of good things to come? I'm sure.
Now, enjoy the first round of pictures.