{"id":3266,"date":"2015-03-15T19:20:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T19:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2015-03-15T19:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T19:22:02","slug":"northward-bound-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3266","title":{"rendered":"Northward Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are headed north now.\u00a0 We have a deadline\u2014always a bad choice to have deadlines on a boat (so that is a bad decision!).\u00a0 Mother Nature loves to mess with deadlines.\u00a0 Another wise, old adage goes like this:<\/p>\n

The most dangerous piece of equipment on boat is a calendar<\/i>.<\/p>\n

You see, we have a wedding in South Carolina in mid-April, and we want to be there!\u00a0 We are also putting\u00a0Pandora<\/i>\u00a0in brokerage this spring in order to buy another boat, so getting her to her brokerage home before the wedding would be the best plan.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure Mother Nature will have a good time with our plans, but we have to make the attempt.\u00a0 So we are headed north.<\/p>\n

For the past week we have sailed north and just taken enough time to stop each night to rest before continuing each morning.\u00a0 These have been long days, either sailing out in the Atlantic or motoring up the Intra Coastal Waterway. We even had two days with good wind for sailing up the ICW. While these days have not included any shore leave, there have been lots of interesting sights on the water:\u00a0 flying fish, manatees, dolphins, shore birds\u2014even some very interesting man made birds that have been thrilling to watch as they fly overhead.<\/p>\n

We missed getting photos of all the lovely wildlife, so I’ll just include some sunsets.<\/p>\n

\"3-7-15a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

And this tiny island where someone had set up a tent!<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday we arrived in Daytona and decided we\u2019d like to see this city that we have previously always passed by.\u00a0 We had a wonderful dinner at The Cellar, which is located in a beautiful early 20th\u00a0c. house that used to be Warren Harding\u2019s summer home.\u00a0 What a lovely spot and a beautiful home.\u00a0 The menu is amazing and so are the wine choices!<\/p>\n

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We ate in the pretty sunroom. \u00a0This photo (which I did not take!) was taken from the window table where Bob and I sat.<\/p>\n

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We arrived here on the last day of the annual \u2018bike week\u2019 here in Daytona.\u00a0 We could hear the revving engines of many, many bikes as we set the anchor when we first arrived.\u00a0 It put me in mind of the famous racetrack, and I did wonder if there were some kind of car race going on.\u00a0 We will have to get ashore early this morning if we want to see the bikes before they leave town.\u00a0 Perhaps this bike rally is a significant part of what makes Daytona so popular for college students on spring break.<\/p>\n

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Next stop is St. Augustine, a place we\u2019ve visited numerous times, both by water and by land.\u00a0 We will spend a few days there since we hurried out of town back in January when it was so cold!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are headed north now.\u00a0 We have a deadline\u2014always a bad choice to have deadlines on a boat (so that is a bad decision!).\u00a0 Mother Nature loves to mess with deadlines.\u00a0 Another wise, old adage goes like this: The most dangerous piece of equipment on boat is a calendar. You see, we have a wedding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}