Boat Drinks

We've had Sunshine and that puts me in a Jimmy Buffet frame of mind, things like "Boat Drinks" and "The weather is here wish you were beautiful my minds not too clear," and so on. I'm sorry you have to be a Jimmy Buffet fan to understand that, I was just rambling.
Again we have met some wonderful people here at Cabrillo Beach yacht club, one member ran me around to used marine stores to look for the chock that I'm still looking for and another member ran me around to marinas to check on moorage for Sept. when we head home, and they invited us to their home for dinner one night. We did burger nite at the club and what a spread, you had your choice of veggie, chicken, seafood or 1/3# beef pattie, w or w/o cheese, coleslaw, salad, baked beans, french fries and all the deli condiments, B. L. T. onions, pickles, relish,and a selection of mustard's.
After we used our reciprocal time there we moved 1/4 mi. to L.A. yacht club for three days and they said that I can stay five days since I have to wait until 9/1 to get into a moorage. We did find a reasonable moorage, I say reasonable because we found prices from $483 a month at a live aboard marina in the industrial area to $1780 a month in the upscale area and one marina wanted a copy of a survey (boat inspection) within the last 24 months.
We have had two big fires down here within 6 to 10 miles away that have burned about 1000 acres and we got up this morning and the boat was covered with ash and it came in through the open windows and we had big flakes inside the boat so we have spent the day cleaning.
This is a great adventure but we really miss family and friends back home. Would we do it again? Only to meet the wonderful people that we have met, as for the boating----it's really hard to beat the Columbia River and Puget Sound for great boating.
We will move into our slip on the 1st and we have our plane tickets out of Long Beach on the 8th with our return flight on the 29th.
We want to stay home for most of the month because the bad news is that the Dr's. think that my youngest son's cancer has returned, say a prayer for him.
We probably won't post anything until we come back to Calif. unless I download the camera and I put some pictures on here. So until then, we're thinking of you.
Irv & LaVon