For the Irish Twins Chris and Mike Mathews today is an appropriate day to celebrate and cruise forward on our blog.

Update on brother Mike, while his stroke is a big (peace of mind) set back thanks to modern medicine Mike has been spared the physical set back. The current issue is no definitive source of the clot, leaving the uncertainty of, is another lurking?. Doctors with educated speculation have prescribed monitoring with devices ( devices like leashes) are currently substituting for ocean and sea breeze’s.

“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.” Vince Lombardi

I will be working on the blog with an eye to bring our Great Loop Adventure in for a soft landing:

This week we listed our Boat with HMY Yachts. If anyone reading this has an interested party I would love to engage, show it off. (Ask is $695,000). I am staying on the boat for the most part till it sells. I intend to continue to blog as the story is not ended yet and I would enjoy friends and family visits as the boat is amazing and our location perfect for the time of year. There surely will be some adventure left and I intend to report with the same reality as I have the adventure.

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall”. Vince Lombardi

Our Goal was to push age to the back of the cue, choose bold audacious goals, challenge our mental agility and prove that learning, perfecting new skills with exceptional self discipline. Seize opportunities take measured risks and realizing the exhilaration of triumph. There must be another adventure that can be shaped into the new reality. I am searching for it as we close.

I received a text last night that two of our fellow loopers and their boats have arrived in Fort Lauderdale and we are planning dinner together tonight. “UnWined” Rusty and Robin and “Outlaw” Rickey Downen and his wife. We shared the dock at Safe Harbor Aqua Yacht on the Tennessee River (Pickwick Lake) last summer.

We are all Arkansans and looking forward to a fun dinner catching up.

Happy Saint Patrick’s day!!