Nice to Have Friends

Blount Island, St. Johns River, FL

30 27.74 N 081 30.27 W

Sometimes this blogging business really surprises me.  About a week ago I got an email from Terri, a stranger. Terri said that she and her husband Larry, were a blog readers, and that she read that we were heading north.   She invited us to stop and visit them at their house behind Blount Island.  Wow!  Imagine that, out of the blue.

We accepted their invitation.  We're tied up to their dock right now and we'll have dinner with them tonight.  Terri and Larry will soon be recently retired and they hope to begin cruising like Libby and I do.  That's why they read the blogs of other cruisers.   Very cool.

It is always such a pleasure to make new friends.  Blogging as a way of finding new friends is so bizarre.    

p.s. In 1967 I was working in Daytona Beach.  I remember seeing ads for waterfront houses on the St. John's river.  100 feet of front, plus a house and 1/2 acre lot all for $25,000.   I've often kicked myself for not investing in that offer.   Larry said that it was true.  In the 1960s there were homes around here that went for that price.