Stephen, Frank and Karen's son, ran in the Miami Marathan yesterday and posed with his new friends today in Key West.

Key West! We made it!

US Highway #1 in the Keys heading SOUTH

Sightseeing in downtown Key West

We are as far south in the USA as you can get and it was jacket weather...cloudy and looked like rain. But it is always sunny in Margaritaville!

The gang at Capt Hiram's, Route 1, Sebastian, FL. Right on the water with the fishing fleet ( charter boats ) right behind us.

Frequent visitors to our campsite at Orbit RV Park, Grant, FL.- especially the 5:30AM rooster. Never could catch it for a little Colonel Sander's and bisquits.

Andrew's Visit to Kings Bay

Cameron's buddy, Andrew, came to visit and play a game of golf with Ted and Ron

Sunset on the harbor at St. Mary's, GA. The pelicans as watching us as we check out the harbor at the end of the Cumberland Island ccruise.

The beach at low tide at Cumberland Island. Hard packed sand that the forest service vehicles traveled quite easily. Lots of shells to find.

Just off the beach we encountered more of these hardy Live Oaks covered with Spanish Moss.

A few of the reported wild horses on Cumberland Island. The stallion is herding the mares away from us and around the back of Dungeness. These horses, although wild, had no great fear of humans and wouldn't hesitate to run through or over you.

One of the Live Oak lined walkways on Cumberland Island. The Live Oak in the foreground is said to be over 300 years old and the others were planted by the Carnegies . These younger trees are over 100 years old. They obviously thrive in this sandy soil and have outlasted many hurricanes.

The Cumberland Lady is the launch operated by the National Park Service to take people from St. Mary's, GA to Cumberland Island. They claim that the boat can carry 150 people but most of the people would be outside on the decks and it sure would be crowded for this 45 minute ride to and from the island.

Ron & Joe LaBree and Jan on the Salt Marsh, Cumberland Island, GA. This was the property owned by Thomas and Lucy Carnegie. Dungeness, the home built by Thomas and Lucy Carnegie. Thomas is the younger brother of Andrew Carnegie.

Alligator walk at Foster Creek Campground near Charleston, SC

Foster Creek Campground in Goose Creek, SC

Nice little known military campground near Charlston, SC. Has full hookup with nice new bathhouse & laundry. The base also has nice commissary & NEX.

Edisto Island, SC

View from local cafe

Near our campsite at Edisto Beach State Park Campground. Ted, Jan and the girls.

A night at the A & W

Night on the town with travel buddies Frank & Karen Trull (NH) & Ron & Jo LaBree (TX). We met for two nights at Foster Creek Campground before starting our trip south.

Day # 4

On the right side Jan's new desk is in place. Now just the upper cabines need to be put in. The template was made today for the granite countertop.

Day #4

The kitchen is getting closer. Very thing is coming together.

Here's the front bathroom tub/jacuzzi/shower. Looks fantastic. Only
thing remaining is to set the bisque new toilet and then put down
the ceramic tile and it'll be complete.

Here we are at the end of day #2. Two cabinets are in the laundry room and
this is what the kitchen is looking like. We're making progress and it's slowly
starting to return to "normal".

Two kitchen cabinets up and one more ready to go. Paul and Steve had a slow first day because they had to reposition some electrical boxes and and the stainless steel blacksplash ( the grey looking areas in the photo ). They're hoping to make more progress on day #2. Hope so as the appliances are due to arrive on Tuesday and we need the room to store them as the garage is full of cabinets.

Surprise, suprise, the cabinets for the new kitchen arrived today. Here's Jan supervising the offload.
With the arrival of this "load" ( and it completely filled up one side of our double car garage )the
cabinet installation will begin on 8 January and they'll hopefully be in place by 11 Jan at the latest.
We'll post more photos.

Out With The Old, In With The New

Ted taking down the old wall paper in the dining room area

Jan painting ( La Fonda Wild West Green ) on top of paintable wallpaper . Looks like fun eh!!!