Date: 07/08/2011
Location: Mendon, Mass.
Weather: Rainy
Title: Friday, Moving On

Well, I've spent two weeks in Mendon visiting my parents and my brothers. The first week Kim was here and we spent a couple days in Boston and then a few days down the Cape. From the Cape we drove up to Mendon and stayed with my Brother. My folks live in the house next door so we could just walk down the hill to see them, it was hard to see my Dad getting around so slow but his spirits are high. He is lucky to have my Mother looking after him and also my brother Mike.

My brother Gary has gotten into restoring old farm tractors and it was fun helping him work on them and driving them around town.

It was also fun watching old westerns with my Dad. They got him a cable subscription that shows one western after another. His favorites are the John Wayne movies..
But I was getting restless, I had been trying to secure a position on a 57' cat going to Nova Scotia but the skipper hasn't got back to me after I furnished all my references.

So I got on line and started looking. I ran into a site that specialized in Super Yachts. I soon discovered that there is a special safety course that is mandatory and a deck course that I would want to take to get checked out on docking procedures and deck equipment. So I started looking for schools and found one in Ft. Lauderdale. I called the school and the only class that would work for me was beginning Monday July 11. I booked the class, found lodging for two weeks, and purchased a bus ticket.

I packed my bags, went down to say good bye to my folks and had my brother Gary take me to Providence R.I. To catch the Greyhound. I haven't been on a Greyhound since I was 19 and ironically, it was also to Ft. Lauderdale. It was right after I signed up to join the Navy and I wanted to have a last fling before I was shipped off to bootcamp. I ended up down the Florida Keys and spent my money on a scuba diving course. Little did I know that in less a year, I would be right back in the Keys (Key West) to go through the U. S. Navy's Underwater Swimmers School to become a Navy diver.

So I'm writing this as I travel south on the bus. By morning, I'll be in Richmond VA.