It's a rainy Friday and we're sitting here on the boat while the new inverter is being installed and hoping the Lake Okeechobee is filling up with this rain. Otherwise, we will have to go around the tip of Florida adding days to our trip.
Yesterday after the mechanic came to the boat, we used the bikes here at the marina and rode into the old city of Venice which is quite charming. While riding we saw an old entrance to what used to be an ArmyAir Base probably from WWII. The mechanic just told me that this used to be the winter home of the Ringling Bros. We walked the main street into a few shops and I bought a beautiful mermaid figurine sitting on a large shell. I have the perfect spot for her on the boat. We think we rode about 4-5 miles.
This is a popular spot and the restaurant is crowded for lunch and dinner. We had dinner last night in the lower level called the Tavern and it was very good.
I'm still trying to figure out how to get my photos to load and so there are a few I was able to load out of sequence but that's better than nothing.
Hopefully, we'll be able to leave tomorrow morning for Ft. Myers and we'll need to leave early as it's going to be a long day.
Beginning in the Spring of 2011, this is a story of a journey in our 36' Heritage East Trawler as we cruise The Great Loop, a circumnavigation of Eastern North America, along the shoreline of the United States and Canada - truly a trip of a lifetime.
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