Monday March 13 - Hunkered down for most of the day, because it is actually raining. Started around 1 p.m., and is now coming down pretty heavily. Needed here, as it's been a very dry winter.

We had planned to go to "The Freezer", a local bar/restaurant in the village; but with the rain, and with our means of transport via bicycle, we have settled in and had dinner at home. We'll go for seafood tomorrow, as it's supposed to stop raining overnight. Hopefully, it'll be nice enough for us to go over to Inverness, and do some more of the Withlacoochie bike trail.

So it was a good day to do some housework, and plan our trip back. We are leaving here on Friday. But efforts to find an r.v. park near the coast didn't result in any luck, so we're booked into a site in upstate Georgia, where we'll stay for a couple of nights, to let things settle down to the north. The weather is not good at all as you move north, with cold temps the story until the end of next week back home. So we will try to get the r.v. winterized in Charlotte on Monday, with any luck, and motel it the rest of the way. No use taking a chance of damage to the system because of sub-freezing temps.

That said, we should be back by Wednesday next week. Meantime, we continue to pile up the books we've read. Never in my life have I read so many mystery-police-detective novels. Harlan Coben, W.E.B  Griffin, even Dick Francis, and the usual other suspects. Some good reads, engrossing, but not a lot of morality, other than crime doesn't usually pay.

The raindrops continue. Still heavy! But tomorrow is another day. We could be in New England, where they expect up to two feet of snow. Syracuse even gets that much, they say. So we're not complaining.

More later. Stay tuned.