getting south to warm weather

seadaddler · Dec 1, 2014

Hi Jim

Looking good you two and hope you are enjoying the weather.
Do you know what your plans are for the next few weeks.
Nick

Bad Obsession · Dec 1, 2014

Jim....you suck! LOL

Seriously, that is making quick progress. You guys enjoy your trip and I look forward to hearing stories of it this summer when we raft up, if I can ever catch up with you guys!

Gunni · Dec 2, 2014

Living the dream! Cold as the dickens up this way. 37 and drizzle.

Chief RA · Dec 2, 2014

47 out my way, N. Cal. Cascade mtns, rain. Chief

Tim R. · Dec 2, 2014

Looks good Jim. We arrived Charleston today with mid 60s. We will stay here a week and then may make an outside run for St. Augustine next week.

Scott T-Bird · Dec 2, 2014

Sue's son Corey was shipped out yesterday to Parris Island for Marine Corp boot camp. Tim, please shout out an oorah for him (and us) as you pass by if you're keeping to the ICW. Sue's going thru a lot of emotional swings right now. Last night at about 11:00 she got her 5 second phone call from Corey announcing that PFC Corey arrived at Parris Island. Lots of noise and commotion with drill sergeants in their face!

Tim R. · Dec 2, 2014

Scott T-Bird said:
Sue's son Corey was shipped out yesterday to Parris Island for Marine Corp boot camp. Tim, please shout out an oorah for him (and us) as you pass by if you're keeping to the ICW. Sue's going thru a lot of emotional swings right now. Last night at about 11:00 she got her 5 second phone call from Corey announcing that PFC Corey arrived at Parris Island. Lots of noise and commotion with drill sergeants in their face!

LOL. Oorah! Her little boy is about to become a man. I have seen a few kids go into the marines never to be seen again. Strong, confident men emerge.

Scott T-Bird · Dec 2, 2014

Thanks! He was pretty shaky on Sunday afternoon when he left the house and apparently on Sunday night while they had them stay in a hotel near Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. We went to see the induction and saw that he was doing better. Sue did her best saying final goodbyes. She was a mess soon after on the drive home. They are exceptionally close. We expect to go down there for graduation sometime around the end of February. I'm looking forward to it!

gettinthere · Dec 2, 2014

We passed Parris Isl late Oct on our way out Port Royal Sound. Glad to have made the forced march south when we did. It got cold in a hurry!
Hangin round blustery sub-tropical Stuart for a while. Life is good

shemandr · Dec 2, 2014

Scott T-Bird said:
Sue's son Corey was shipped out yesterday to Parris Island for Marine Corp boot camp.

Blessings for Sue - it must be so hard to see her son leave the relative safety of home and enter the real world dangers of military service. Hopefully she can take some comfort in the quality of their training and the growth in his abilities. I wish her, and you, the best.

Ron20324 · Dec 2, 2014

Scott T-Bird said:
Thanks! He was pretty shaky on Sunday afternoon when he left the house and apparently on Sunday night while they had them stay in a hotel near Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. We went to see the induction and saw that he was doing better. Sue did her best saying final goodbyes. She was a mess soon after on the drive home. They are exceptionally close. We expect to go down there for graduation sometime around the end of February. I'm looking forward to it!

Scott, this sounds like a letter in today's Dear Abbey column, "Stoic mom faces son's deployment".

woodster · Dec 2, 2014

well hes going through at the right time of the year......ant no use looking down there ant no discharge on that ground ...at least that's what they told us ...he will be fine when he figures out what they are doing

Scott T-Bird · Dec 3, 2014

shemandr said:
Blessings for Sue - it must be so hard to see her son leave the relative safety of home and enter the real world dangers of military service. Hopefully she can take some comfort in the quality of their training and the growth in his abilities. I wish her, and you, the best.

Thanks, I'll pass this along to Sue. She takes comfort in all of these comments as well.