END OF A WONDERFUL JOURNEY

When we started our trip two years ago, we hooked up with "Whichaway" "Illusions" and "Osprey" at Steve's Landing in Port Bolivar. Steve's Landing was a neat little marina with a great restaurant and bar. From there we went to Lake Charles. We spent a couple of days in the area enjoying crawfish boils and casinos. When it was time to leave, "Illusions" and "Osprey" headed back to Kemah and we headed to Mobile, Alabama. Coming back through Port Bolivar, this is what was left of Steve's Landing, compliments of Hurricane Ike.




What "Ike" left on the banks of the ICW in Port Bolivar.



My Cin and Whichaway docked at Island Moorings, Port Aransas




PORT ARANSAS, TEXAS We arrived at Island Moorings Marina on May 14th (our 38th wedding anniversary). Our plan was to stay at the marina for one year. Whichaway is docked right next to us so it's nice to have them as our neighbors.

Our trip from Louisiana to Texas was good, no problems. When we cruised past Port Bolivar, you can still see the damage from Hurricane Ike. It really felt good to be back in Texas waters and coming home.

Our first weekend home was spent attending each grandchild's baseball/softball/kickball games. We have cruised over 13,000 miles from Canada to Bahamas in the two years. I'm back on land for 3 days and got hit in the face with a softball! Didn't break anything but very sore.

We had renters in our house for almost a year and both parties came to a mutual decision for tenants to vacate the house by May 29th. They moved out and left us with a filthy house including some stuff left in the house plus all their refrigerator food. So, Jess and I have contracted to have the inside of the house painted, air duct vents cleaned out, carpets cleaned, tile floor redone and a cleaning service to major clean the house. In addition to that, our yard and lot is a mess..overgrown with every kind of weed and stickers. Therefore we are having a lawn service to get the yard back in shape.

With all this happening, Jess and I have decided to move back into the house by July 1st. We just couldn't stomach to rent our house out again. We will start over from scratch. Take our time on renovating some areas of the house and take care of the Little My Cin as well as the Big My Cin. Anyone out there want to buy a 32ft Island Gypsy?

We had a wonderful trip, experienced so many neat things and now it's time to take care of home. We plan to take "small" trips here and there. But in the meantime, we have alot of work to do. If your down our way, come see us.

This is the last blog entry.....thank you for sharing our journey.

Love to all...Jess and Cindy