Burntside Adventures: St. Augustine

We have spent the past couple of days on a mooring ball in St. Augustine. Really like this place and have stayed here in the past. We came down on Tuesday from Sister's Creek with no issues. We had stayed there a couple of nights and Cindy got a run in, I paddled and we got a 13 mile bike ride in to the Kingsley plantation, an historic slave plantation on St. George Island. We left Sister's Creek Tuesday morning. The channel leaving St. John's River into the ICW has been rerouted and we had to pay attention to detail, but there was lots of water. Here in St. Augustine we re provisioned and I went to the West Marine by bike and Cindy got a pretty good run in as well as some laundry. We Uber'd to and from the Walmart with a big load of groceries and beer in anticipation of crossing over to the Bahamas in the next week or so. Still have to get south another couple hundred miles for that. The Uber drive that took us to the Walmart was an interesting experience. He lives at Ormond By The Sea, a community 25 miles south of here. I said I had friends with a condo there and he mentioned he new a couple from Minnesota that were his neighbors, in fact he had dinner with them earlier in the week. He said they were from a small town named Ely. It turns out it was Tom and Becky Wetzel. Cindy and I were good friends with Tom in college and he and his wife were long time patients, and I think I delivered some of their kids. Anyway, it never ceases to amaze me what things pop up when you talk to people. Today we are heading south again, probably to Daytona or further depending on time. Things are going well.