After 6 1/2 weeks we made it back to Marathon last Thursday. We drove back from Indiana and knew we were getting close when we started to see more and more Ford Mustang convertibles. By the time we got to our hotel we had lost track of the number of Mustang convertibles that were on the road.

Before we finally got back to Marathon we did a lot of traveling. We had just arrived on St. John when I last posted. So I’ll try to catch up what has happened in the last few weeks.

Our time in the Virgin Islands always goes too quickly. We visited our favorite beaches on St. John, ate at several restaurants that we hadn’t tried before, and all too soon the week was coming to an end. Elizabeth and Joshua joined us the last night on St. John. We all headed to the BVI the next morning for a weeklong sailboat charter. The boat wasn’t going to be ready until 5 p.m., so we took a taxi to Cane Garden Bay on Tortola and spent the day on the beach there – not a bad way to start that week!

When we left the BVI we spent a night on St. Thomas at a small hotel way up on the side of a mountain overlooking Charlotte Amalie. The views were spectacular!

Once back in Lafayette we had a quick visit to our accountant to get our taxes filed and then less than 48 hours after we arrived, it was back to the airport for a flight back to Miami. We picked up the Kia Soul at the airport and off we went to Marathon. Our boat had been pulled out of the water while we were gone to have some work done on props, a new rudder put on, and new bottom paint. The work was still in progress, so we spent a couple of nights in a hotel, then headed back to Lafayette.

After a 3 day drive we arrived back in Lafayette- and the work began. We had 15 days to get our house ready for the movers to come in and pack the kitchen, artwork, TVs, and anything else we couldn’t get packed before then. Needless to say, we were exhausted by the time the movers came on the 15th to start packing.

We headed to Bloomington after the house closing on the 19th and had Passover with Elizabeth and Joshua and all their kids. We stayed at Dan’s so we got to see all the grandkids that weekend.

We spent 4 days driving back to Marathon, and took a route different from the route we took when we headed north. This time we were just a few miles from Woodford Reserve Distillery, which happens to be my favorite bourbon. It was lunch time so we stopped there for lunch.

We stopped in Knoxville the first night and walked to Market Square for dinner. It’s a really cool area with both sides of the street lined with restaurants, bars, and shops. And of course there were plaques and statues everywhere.