San~San Adventures

Since we have been back we have sold the boat. She sold realy quickly, thanks to a great website GR made. 42pearson.livesaildie.com

Once we arrived at the slip where San~San would call home I jumped onto the dock to tie us up and sprained my ankle. I wasn’t used to the concrete docks. Ouch! Then we walked about a mile to our house to retreive GR’s car that had been left in the garage for almost a year. When we got there the car battery was dead and the car would not start so we walked back to the Marina. Another mile on my bad ankle, ugh. I was out of commision for about 2 days with this swollen ankle. So GR had to unload all of our belongings off San~San and into the house.

Once we were getting accustomed to the house we had to move from one house and into another. We put 2 rental signs out front of the 2 properties and whichever one rented first we were going to live in the other one. Well wouldn’t you know the house on beachside we were living in was the one to rent. So we packed again and moved into Ponce Inlet.

Our house now is much larger than our living area in the boat or in the Daytona Beach house. We were not complaining about all the extra room! Just like with a boat, with a big house comes maintenace, new carpets and some landscaping and we were sitting pretty comfortably.

GR has finished his Official US Coast Guard Captain’s license, something he has been longing to do for some time. Making good use of all the Sea Time he has acrued over the years. I have taken my PADI - Open Water Diver course and taken the Bartending course, a story I wrote about Gia catching her first fish in St. Thomas made it onto the pages of Lattitudes and Attitudes! Gia has learned to ride her bike with out training wheels, and is riding a skateboard as well as attending Pre-Kindergarten at Warner Christian Academy.

We have maintained friendships with several of the cruiser’s we met while we were at sea.  Barbara from Ooh-La-La drove over to trick or treat with us on Halloween night. Ryan & Morgan from Endorfin came to Daytona to visit and we had a great time catching up at their fancy hotel room. Nate & Jenn called us Christmas morning to say the were going to go skiing.  The large family of Liahona, that we met in Turks & Caicos have also since sold their boat and moved back to the states to continue their adventures. Josh, our first crew aboard San~San, also completed his Captain’s license with GR and is working out of Ft. Lauderdale on different vessels.

We are still in the market for our next boat home and constantly looking. we have one that we like a lot right now, but just waiting for the right time to make the move.