Road Trip!We spent the day heading toward the Gulf, stopping first in Foley, AL at a Tangiers Outlet, which by all accounts (particularly the checkbook) was successful. Since we are coming home the first part of December and plan to have an early
Christmas with our kids, we have to 
get with the gift shopping and after several stabs at it are almost done. Then we headed for Gulf Shores, AL which is a typical beach town except for the snow white sand. We took a walk out a verrry long pier which had dozens of fisherman pulling in fish right and left. When we went on 
east to Orange Beach, AL we decided to look up our friends Skip and Barb Johnson (Moor $tuff) and Jim and Cathy Condon (Merried with Her) at Bear Point Marina. The Condons are from New Matamouras, OH and I had initially heard they were taking this trip in the customer waiting area at Summers Motors in Marietta were I was getting our SUV serviced from a lady from New Mat. We had e-mailed back and forth after that but didn't meet until Joe Wheeler at the rendezvous. They had left Eastern Shore Marina in Fairhope together earlier today along with John and Barb Flint (Scoperta) and it was approaching "docktails time". When we pulled into the marina we gave Skip and Barb a call just as they were leaving to go over to Jim and Cathy's boat, adult beverages in hand. Skip had slipped on the dock this morning on ICE as he was preparing to leave and really messed up his leg. We joined all three couples for cocktails and later for a very good dinner at the marina restaurant. Tomorrow I hope to clean the boat bilge and change the oil and fuel filters before we set out across the bay for the Florida panhandle. The weather for the next couple days does not look very good unless we can get out early Monday before the front comes through.
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