Always complaining!!!

This is a special entrance for a physical education teacher in Little Egg Harbor (not mentioning any names). It seems that we need to make more regular entries,to stop some of the readers from complaining!!! If the shoe fits.

So many bars so little time

In our park there are many activities to choose from. Ken and I go to conditioning class 3 days a week. The class is lead by an eighty year old woman (Merrilee). She is unbelievable. She puts me to shame. There is line dancing, computer classes, tennis, happy hour, and dinner dances with different themes. We went to a sock hop the other night.
Key West is 39 miles down the (only) road. Key West is "Key West". So many bars so little time!!!
There are a lot of things to do. But we sometimes actually sit and relax on what I like to call our patio. Outside our motor home,with chairs, table,lounges,and an awning ; this is the life. We call it "Keys Disease"

Got ready then got fishing

The boat was ready to put in the water, a clean boat and fishing gear all set. I predicted it right. I said after all that had happened the weather would turn for the worse. Now all the days we were cleaning and preparing Happy Feet II the weather was gorgeous for fishing. So yes you guessed it we had 3 days of wind and small craft warnings...... Oh well!
We finally got out on the water and had some great fishing days. We invited our friends, Toby and Chris. We caught dinner and then some.You have to know that fishing inthe keys is very interesting- all types of fish are available Yellow tail, mangrove snapper, hog fish, grouper,yellow jacks, porgies and many many more. There is always a catch 22. All these fish are there, but but each species has a size and quantity limits. Sometimes you end up with less than half amount actually caught. this is called throw backs and keepers.

Arriving in paradise !

January 6th ,Sunday morning.... We arrived in Sunshine Key about 10AM. We breathed a big sigh of relief. As the saying goes bad luck always comes in threes. So we thought we were out of the woods. We are here now. What else could go wrong???????? We didn't think about Murphy's law, "What can go wrong will go wrong". Well, to complete our settling in, we needed to get some things from our boat that has been stored here on land all summer.
As we opened the boat, we saw the results of unwanted visitors who made themselves at home in our boat. We think racoons made themselves comfortable, leaving evidence of recycling food they had eaten elsewhere. We can't begin to tell the mess and stench in the boat and cabin. As if that wern't enough they chewed the wires to the electronics. We wern't sure if they had vacated the premisses at this point. I was down on the ground just in case they were still there. Ken was very gingerly removing the items we wanted with a boat hook. We ended up throwing out just about everything. What a mess!!!!
Now to bring this up to date. We cleaned out the boat. Disinfected it. Febrezzed it. Then we fixed the wires. Everything seems to be running smoothly now.
Now that the boat is in the water and ready to go, the weather is cool and windy.

Moving South

We left Baltimore January 2nd late in the morning. We made it to Wilson North Carolina without any problems. Then a car pulled up next to us ,honked, flicked his Bic lighter and pointed to the back. We pulled over to find our jeep inundated in smoke. It was just about to burst into flames. The seal on the front differential had blown. All the gear oil was sprayed all over. The gears heated up and just about started the entire car on fire. A rebuilt differential and 4 new tires and we were back on the road. We made it to Dillon South Carolina, when the lights and battery went dead AGAIN! We spent the night at a truck stop. In the morning we spent another 4 hours while a mechanic checked out the motor home. It turned out it as a bad ground wire. We probably didn't need the new alernator in Baltimore. We finally got to Sunhine Key in the Florida Keys on the 6th of January. Five days for a one day trip.

The first leg of our trip

" Happy New Year"
After securing our home in Tuckerton, we were ready to hit the road in our house on wheels. Approximately 130 miles later the sun was going down and so were our head lights. The RV came to a halt. That is when we called tripple A. We became emergency members that very night.
Oh! We also ran outof propane which means we had no heat in our RV. It was below freezing and we froze too. Ken was my personal heater in bed. I always said ,"Life with Ken is an adventure.
It was an interesting stay on the Auto Barn ( the company that towed us in) lot. Since we couldn't use our jacks to level the camper, we were walking, eating and sleeping down hill and sideways. The tow truck driver said they didn't have much trouble with the crack addicts since they installed the security cameras. Needless to say we didn't sleep well that night (January 2nd)
The mechanics started rolling in around 7:30 Am. The manager squeezed us in ahead of all the previously scheduled work. We guessed he figured that if he was going to have New Jersey squatters living in his lot, he wanted to get rid of us as soon as possible.