Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Arrived at Wacca Wache Marina in Murrells Inlet. Trip took 3 1/2 hours from Bare Foot Landing Dock at Mrytle Beach. We traveled 9 knots. The weather was absolutely beautiful and the fall foliage on the banks of the ICWW are gorgeous. We're beginning to look for indiginous Palms and aligators. The scenery is slowly changing from what we are used to.
We decided to take a short trip today and so glad we did. It gave us time to clean out the back cockpit and take a great bike ride. I broke off a beautiful bright red magnolia seedling from along the side of the rode. Hope to plant it when I get back home as a remembrance of my trip.
The marina is nice and the people as well. Met a great guy with a '68 Candy Apple Red convertible Camaro in mint condition. Joey and he immediately struck up a conversation about guy stuff and rebuilding motors and don't forget boating too.
Russell came to pick us up for Dinner. He offers free rides to his seafood restaurant. He was a character and we enjoyed our conversation with him. The seafood at his restaurant was fresh and delicious. It was the best flounder I have eaten so far. Ricky, a long time employee, took us back to our boat in his mint condition '98 Cadillac. Thanks Ricky for the great ride.
Tomorrow we will leave for Georgetown, South Carolina.

Monday, October 13th, 2008


We departed this morning on our trip to Florida. Joey and I decided to take pictures of all bridges we pass under - like a right of passage - Ha Ha. Our first stop was Bare Foot Landing in Mrytle Beach, South Carolina. We averaged 8 knots and traveled 60 miles. Our docking went smoothly. We got great help from the dockmaster and his beautiful English bulldog - LuLu.
Dinner at LeGrand restaurant and a nice stroll thru the shops and boardwalk. Dinner conversation concensus was; "we have a lot to learn about traveling on a boat."
Tomorrow we have decided that we will travel thirty miles due to trying to set up the computer on the boat and get everything in working order.
Joey and I keep smiling and saying - Pinch me - is this real? We already are hooked on this way of life! It's for us. It was so sad to say good-bye to our dear friends and family. We have talked with most of these every hour on the hour today- Ha Ha. Love to all and our new motto is "Happy Boating."

Update

We were unable to leave when we wanted to due to family obligations. We are going to try to leave in the very near future. We hope our old and new friends will visit this site often and leave their thoughts with us. We will try to add pictures of the things we see if we can figure out how to do so.

Joey

Just signed up. We are preparing for our Great Circle trip. We hope to leave in the Spring of 2007. This is what RHO-JO looked like the day we picked her up in Little River, SC in April of 2003. We have made some changes and a lot of improvements. We have taken a few short trips but are looking forward to the BIG one. We really enjoy looking at the pictures and info that other Loopers have posted.