Wednesday, March 13, 2019

We crossed our wake in style!

TANUKI crossed her wake at 12:31 on 2/24/2019, near Marathon Key and the 10th Annual Sunset Celebration where 200 AGLCA members (Loopers) were gathered to party.  Kim, the leader of the American Great Loop Cruisers Association gave us a shout out and we got a nice round of applause.  We didn't totally hijack the party, but we feel like we had the biggest, best attended Looper Crossing Party ever!

We bid a fond farewell as the 10th Annual AGLCA Sunset Celebration draws to a close.  
 And for our next trick... 

After crossing your wake, it's traditional to make an announcement on the AGLCA Forum.  We used all the names of the boats on the back of the Fleet of 2018 Tee shirt in our crossing post.  


We are JUBILANT!  SOMEDAY came AT LAST! It’s time to EXHALE and cross that off our BUCKET LIST.  Our NOMADIC SPIRIT’s ODYSSEY has come to its SUMMATION, ending our BUSHRANGER ways. 

Even though we were TYRO (novice), it was HIGH TIME we followed LE REVE (the dream) and took the VIRIDIAN colored SEA TROLLEY and got on the BANDWAGON for GETTING’ LOOPED.  

After having a PHARM LIFE (we spelled it Farm), it was SUM ESCAPE from HARDWORK!  (Even though we took THE HOME OFFICE with us).  STILL WATERS at an EASY PACE made for a HAPPY DESTINY of HALCYON DAYS and FOREVER FRIDAYs.

IMAGINE, the BEST DAY EVER, A STATE OF BLISS, or a SABBATICAL that comes along once in a BLUE MOON.  Our INTUITION told us, this was no WILD GOOSE chase.  Our PUB TRAWLER had plenty of WHISKEY BUSINESS, WINE SPEED and DOCK TALES – bring the CORKSCREW for the GRAND CRU, and some MONTEREY and crackers too! 

Smuggling only CONTENTMENT on this KESSEL RUN, we took our EXODUS from Key West on 2/27/2018, and followed a WANDERING STAR, or was it VEGA?  Ringing a DIXIE BELLE, the FIRST FORTY were done SOUTHERN STYLE, cruising CAROLINA (South, then North).  

OUR BACKYARD spent many HAPPY OURS on the circular BLUE HIGHWAY, arriving at a PROPER STATE OF MIND for QUIET COMPANY.  It was a CHANGE OF PACE, but not a SEA CHANGE.  In this HYPNAUTIC SHANGRI-LA we were DONE DIGGIN’.  It was PLANE RELIEF to go TRUE NORTH, or was it EASTNOR?

PLAN SEA turned into LAKE EFFECT as our VOYAGER’s new REALITY was the AMAZING GRACE of Canada.  It was our LAST CHANCE to be a LAZY LOOPER. Did we SEA LOONS?  Yes, and a BLUE GOOSE and a KITTIWAKE. EAGLE ONE?  Heck no – saw tons of eagles, but never a NEPIDAE with GREEN EYES or even BLUE AYES.

We didn’t get off SCOTTFREE. Our NEW FREEDOM was interrupted by a CONFLICT OF INTEREST.  In Petoskey, we had to STEALAWAY and told TANUKIwe’d BE BACK IN A MINUTE. Actually it was 9 ½ days. In a FLASH, our INDEPENDENCE was reinstated.  LET’S GO!

Next came the RIVERDANCE. We LET IT RIDE at the CROSSROADS of JUBILEE and TYRE-LESS, the UNRULY ZENDEAVOR pushing thoughts of UTOPIA from our heads.  Did you HEARKEN to chants of MIZZOU RAH at the FRATT HOUSE near Missouri too?  

Like a FREE BIRD, it was pure RHAPSODY as this VAGABOND splashed into the CAERULEUS colored waters of Mobile Bay!  This SALTY DOG was back in DIXIE.   And even though we anchored off Homosassa Springs, we didn’t see a MANATEE.  In Tarpon Springs we found sponges, but no LOOFAH.

We listened to lots of Jimmy Buffet, but never at LA CIGALE in Paris.  For me and my BABE, Our daily SPIRIT SONG was “Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me! Hey!”  (While in Canada, “Hey!” became “Eh?”).  

OBSERVERs of our NOMADIC SPIRIT want to know what our NEXT ACT will be on our LIL HIDE AWAY.  As it WAS MEANT TO BE, we don’t have NINE LIVES, so perhaps we’ll take a SHORT VACATION, CHA CHA lessons, celebrate FESTIVUS or take a CAJUN FLYER for some crawfish.

It was AL DI LA (beyond) MOLTO BENE (very good)!  This SEA WOLF is now a SATISFIED FROG.  It’s HI TIME this TIKI QUEEN STEELs AWEIGH to enjoy the warm BREEZEs of Key West.  VIVA THE GOOD LIFE! We’re on ISLAND TIME contemplating a trip to the Dry TORTUGAs, or perhaps the Triangle Loop. 

THE JOURNEY is far from over for A.G.L.C.A. OPTIMYSTIQUE GYPSYs.  Each MORNING SUN brings BRAVEHEARTs and NAUTICAL DREAMERs to a fresh DREAMQUEST, not of THISTLE, but of a SEA JAMM SERANADE and MOONDANCE in SCORPIO or AQUARIUS with CHIRON and ELPIS, during a TOTAL ECLIPSE.  Let your SOULSHINE!  OAR KNOT!  Remember, it’s JADIP (Just Another Day In Paradise).

Cruising is FAHFROMWURKEN, and a GOLDEN opportunity to find XANADU and maybe even ALLISON LEIGH, ALYSANA, ANGEL LOUISE, ANGELITA, ANNE MARIE ROSE, ANTONIA, CAREB, DONNA MAE, FELICITY, FRANCESCA, ISLAND GIRL, JOJOFA, JOY GIRL, KAILINI, KARA MIA, LADYBUG, LINDA ANNE, MARY LISA, MAZIE C, MERIAKI, MISS LIBERTY, MISS NATALIE, MISTY (and her cousin MISTY PEARL), NED PEPPER, NELLIE MAY, PAMELA ANNE, Mick on PHANTOM (and Herb on PHANTOM), SALTY LADY, SAOIRSE, THE LITTLE HOOKER, and the TRIBE OF G. HEY JUDE!

And on THE 7thDAY: SELAH

Hopefully we worked in all the names on the back of the Fleet of 2018 AGLCA tee shirt.  If we missed yours, please don’t take offense. What a ride!  

2 comments:

  1. Awesome guys!! Love your T-shirt. Sharon and I are cruising in style in September on Holland America from Vancouver to Alaska to celebrate 50 years of marriage! Also, it will be my 50th state to visit.

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