Time to dust off this website and start updating again because s/v Dreamtime is going cruising!!!!
Bahamas bound.
It is hard to believe that we last updated this page in 2017 after Hurricane Irma. Our apologies for not keeping you updated on our lives.
Here is a quick synopsis:
We left Marco Island returned to Key West in late 2017 to enjoy a few winter months there. Whilst there, we learned of Jimmy Buffett’s new active 55+ community in Daytona Beach, Latitude Margaritaville. Being Buffett fans we thought it might be a fun place to consider for land based living ….. someday.
We drove up from Key West a couple days after the models opened in February 2018 – just to have a look. We liked the look and feel of the place, and decided to put down a deposit. House scheduled to be finished in April 2019. What?!?!?!?! I guess “someday” is coming sooner than expected.
We slowly moved Dremtime up the keys, enjoying extended time in Marathon, Ft. Lauderdale and other locales until we arrived in Daytona Beach in mid 2018. Where the boat has been safely tied ever since.
We watched our house be built from foundation, to framing to completion in April 2019. Since then, we stayed busy setting it up and enjoying the transition. Moving to land means having to buy EVERYTHING for the house that we had sold when we moved aboard. This was an undertaking.
When we first moved in we both commented on how weird it is to have to walk so much to get from one end of the house to the other. We were used to only having to take a couple steps to get to the other side of the boat. This land based living is a workout!
With the house mostly set up, (who needs dining room chairs?) we decided it’s time to go cruising again for a few months.
Every free minute these past two months we (mostly Bob) have been consumed getting Dreamtime ready to go again. Cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, engine work, polishing and did I mention cleaning?
With our planned departure less than a week away, we are starting to put things back on the boat, and she is getting ready to move. The waterline is dropping again.