Back to the Boat

30 Sep - 3 Oct 2017

I drove to Las Cruces on Saturday morning. With my early start the traffic was no problem, and I was there by mid day. We unloaded the Solara and started preparing to hand it over to Heather's brother. I hadn't had as much time to work on it as I had hoped, but it had spent most of the year in the garage.

The one sticking point was the title. I had developed the habit of putting car titles and such in an organizer on the desk, and the titles for the other four cars were present and accounted for. I had paid it off years ago and was sure I had it. I searched thru everything as I was emptying the house. I thought maybe I had put it in the Solara's glove box, but no such luck. And getting a copy was one of those things you had to be present in Arizona for. I was out of time and luck, so it would have to wait until next time. I handed over the car to Rex and kept our insurance active.

We reorganized what we had in Las Cruces and packed what was staying for now in a corner of a back room at Heather's mother's house. The bulk of it was cases of photographs going back decades. The plan was to scan and organize them over the Christmas break.

Another deadline that was looming was the US Sailboat show in Annapolis the next week. We wanted to go if we could even though we didn't have any immediate major purchases in mind. Just working your way through all of the vendor tents is educational, and we did have some needs that were going to become more urgent at some point in the near future.

On the 3rd of October we flew back to Jacksonville and picked up the car. It had been in the airport parking lot about three weeks longer than we had planned. Even with the half off coupon we would have been much better off getting 60 mile rides to and from the airport. Since it was very late we didn't want to go straight to the boat, just in case it was less than habitable. We spent the night in Kingsland about halfway between Jacksonville and Brunswick.

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