2/16/14:  Everyone that owns a boat is familiar with the ‘it worked when we went to bed but was broke when we woke up” phenomenon. Lucky for us have had only very minor occurrences of this until this last Saturday morning when we woke up to a broken hot water heater. (Darn it…we knew we should have replaced that old thing when we did the retro-fit…ugh!)

The weather window to move north was this coming Tuesday/Wednesday with it closing shut Thursday. No sure when the next window will occur so leaving this week would be our preference. But our plans to leave Islamorada on Tuesday are probably on hold. Of course all of this depends on if the Marina we are at can get our hot water heater fixed in a timely manner so we can be on our way. If they can’t we will have to move north with cold showers in our future.

Okay…okay.. I can hear my snowed in northern friends firing up Facebook to remind me that we are stranded in the FLORIDA KEYS… so if you have to be stranded count your blessings that you are in the warmest part of the US. Believe me we are. While we are enjoying the warm weather here in the Keys we really need to get headed north so we can start the final preparations for our big Loop trip.