When we left the Keys, traffic was light and it was a beautiful day. And it was only about a 2 hour drive up to South Miami, where we were going to driveway surf at Glenda's old room mate/friend's home. Yea, Free park rent!! After getting backed into the driveway, and all set up, it was time to catch up. Of course we forgot to take any pictures of those first several hours!
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Later that evening, the 3 girls got a chance to gab it up around the pool. Also visiting from Jamaica was Joe's cousin, Steve Sirgany, his wife Lisa and 3 children. They had come up to visit and spend Christmas, and of course do a bunch of shopping. Apparently their dollar goes a lot longer in the states. They also accomplished on this trip completion of a racing school for their 14 year old. He has been racing carts since age 7 and he apparently has talent "on loan from God" as it were, and his dream of becoming a formula 1 race car driver is only a few years and a few sponsors away. I learned lot about racing...
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| Glenda, Barbara Privette, Lisa Sirgany, and petting Piper behind Glenda is Lisa's daughter Christina. |
Lisa, Glenda and Barbara chatting
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| New Years Eve snacks... |
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| Glenda's knee, Barbara and Cindee |
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| The 3.... |
On New Years day, the men went Skeet shooting. Joe and cousin Steve are at the competition level. Their love of the game came from their fathers, and they are both pretty good. They took me out to the range and I was successful at embarrassing myself at almost each station. I've shot trap a couple times, but wow, Skeet is an entirely different animal. Way quicker. But it was fun. And I did make a few hits. :-)
On the 2nd, the "Jam" Sirganys had to leave, I think they loaded up 14 suitcases and everyone of them had at least 1 carry on!! LOT'S of shopping :-).
One thing about partying with laid back Jamaicans is that you don't get much sleep, so we hide out in the trailer for a few hours and rested up. Later that afternoon we went to dinner at the
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| Here are Barbara/Richard, Joe/Cindee and Us |
Blackpoint Marina restaurant. Glenda has good recollections of what this place used to be, because this is where her dad would either rent a boat and go out fishing with his 2 girls, or later in life this is where he docked his own boat. I even have a vague recollection of what this place was, but holy cow, it has changed a bunch. It's bigger, fancier, and has lots more facilities. And a great dockside restaurant.
Everyone said their goodbyes that night to Richard and Barbara, as they needed to head out early the next morning. But before we went back to Cindee and Joes's, we drove by several of Glenda's childhood homes in Cutler Ridge area and her old church.
The next day was our day to head out. We had breakfast and said goodbyes of our own with Cindee and Joe, hitched up our wagon and headed north again.
We were off on about a 2 hour trip to Jonathan Dickenson SP.
It was up north of West Palm Beach in Jupiter where Glenda's nephew Christopher lives.
We had 4 days scheduled at Jonathan Dickenson, and it turned out we could have spent several days more. We did get in a kayak trip on the Loxahatchee River, a day at Jupiter Beach, a couple nature walks to explore the sights and features in the park.
Glenda and I also had the opportunity to visit her old high school friends Wes Clark and Sharon Marks, see their beautiful home and have drinks at the Marina fun to share good times for Glenda 50 years later. The next evening it was nice to have dinner with Christopher and his girlfriend Jen at our RV and catch up with their lives. Of course Glenda couldn't resist talking real estate with Jen.
As I said we could have easily spent 2 more days looking around Jupiter Beach.
The highlights for me were the river kayak trip, where I so much wanted to see an alligator, (but didn't) and the visit with Chris.
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| Can you see the Gar Fish? |
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| Check out the Turle on the Mangrove Root |
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| Open your eyes son! |
WE did see an alligator up close and personal that was sunbathing along the bike trail. Man they let those things just walk around anywhere they want to!
And next time...
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