Key West 2019

So we spent the month of February in Key West (yes....I'm that far behind in the blog). We had a great stay and caught up with many boating friends as well as made a few new ones. We also had visits from ground based friends and family.

The first visit was from our friends Gretchen & Mike (as well as Addie the photog and Dublin the dog). We had decided we needed to have a Chasing 80 "boat drink" and settled on a version of the Soggy Dollar Painkiller. They seemed to go over well with anyone who tried one and really well if you had more than one!!

Next up was a visit from Linda and Dennis who were able to escape the chill of Cincinnati for a few days. We were fortunate to have a really nice weather day and dinghy over to a sandbar for a fun afternoon.

Also along on the sandbar adventure were boat friends Moni & Rick (Best Mate) and Jan & Mike (Trust Me).

We were also able to wander around Key West with them for a day and covered a bunch of ground. One favorite stop is always Captain Tony's Saloon. I sure miss the fun conversions I had with the Capt. while he was still with us, and will always remember his greeting of "when we goin' to Vegas kid?" whenever I saw him.

It was somewhere past dark thirty when I walked back to the head. It was there upon those dinghy walls I saw the words the old man said.....

We were also able to visit with boat friends Liz & Bob (Knot Sew Easy) who had traveled down from Michigan via RV and Brenda and Ron who came down to spend their anniversary with us on Chasing 80. For whatever reason I neglected to get any pictures of these visits but I assure you they happened!! Wait...I almost forgot that I do have one of Liz & Bob thanks to our friends on OLOH...

Speaking of OLOH, Jill & I really enjoyed our time catching up with them and perfecting the Chasing 80 Painkiller (it hasn't made the Libation page yet so maybe they were being polite?). We were able to spend a bit more time enjoying one last Painkiller with Tim, AJ and of course Jasper.

We also drove up to Marathon for the annual Looper Sunset celebration and got to catch up with even more boating friends!! Thanks to Moni & Rick for the car rental and fantastic day.

So there you have a quick recap of our visit to the keys. At the end we were left wondering where the time had gone. It seemed to go even faster than the year before. I'm really not sure how we'll handle it next year when we won't have Chasing 80 down there.

For those interested we are now at Dog River Marina in Mobile awaiting some repairs. Hopefully I can use the next few days to get you all caught up on how we got here (or you could cheat and look at the map which is now caught up). Until then.....