Southern Most Point

Today Bethany and I had a chance to catch some of the sites Key West, FL has to offer. One of the biggest tourist spots we had to hit was the Southern most point in the Continental US. Our mate from Seven J's, Chuck joined us as we cruised on our long boards around the island dodging cars and pedestrians who had a few to many mid-morning cocktails. We also hit up Fort Zachary Taylor Historic Park. The fort dates back to the mid-1800's and was used during the Civil War as military base. During 1970's the fort was turned into a state park mostly for hippies, vagabonds, VW vans or someone just looking for a white sandy beach. The other night there was a "drag" race competition we were fortunate enough to miss (but we caught it on the morning news). Key West is notorious for their open arms to the gay community. It's the biggest college party town I have witnessed, I have yet to see any college students though. -A

New Boat!

As some of you may know, Bethany and I started a new job/boat together. The boat is a 110 ft private yacht called Seven J's. It is the same make as our last boat and because of the number of crew and living arrangements, we will be staying in one of the guest cabins. The boat sounds like a great program with great benefits, lots of fishing, travel, and great owners. We are heading down to the FL Keys, for a couple weeks then traveling north. As a rough itinerary we are planning to head north making stops along the east coast (South Carolina)/ New England area (Boston, New York, Martha's Vineyard), continuing on up to Canada (Nova Scotia) and coming in the St. Lawrence Sea Way. We will then travel the Great Lakes down to Chicago where we will be late summer and

early fall. That's the program so far and is all subject to change. Bethany and I have been longing to do this trip since we started yachting. We will have plenty of photos and blogs to come this summer so stay tuned to hear what happens next!