Thanksgiving at Vero Beach

We had a nice Thanksgiving here in Vero beach that we shared with 100+ other cruisers. The picture is of the tables as people were bringing in food. Our "pot luck" included all of the the traditional Thanksgiving favorites. We met new friends and went back to the boat full of turkey and pumpkin pie.

Vero Beach is a cruiser friendly town. The city buses are free, donations are accepted. The buses have seats for 24 passengers. They come through the parking lot of the marina every hour during the business day, M-F, and until 3 on Saturday. No service on Sundays or Holidays. The buses take you to restaurants and shopping including the mall, Walmart and West Marine. The marina has a nice dinghy dock, lounge and laundry. It is easy to see why Vero Beach has gotten the cruiser nick name of "Velcro Beach" because cruisers come here and get stuck by falling into the routine of catching the bus and enjoying the company of other cruisers and spending a little more time here than they had originally planned.

We are settling into once again living on board and are enjoying the time here to meet new friends and catch up on some boat projects....yes, there are always boat projects. We are listening to the weather looking for opportunities to cross over to the Bahamas. A cold front has come through and the high will only be in the low 70's today. The 80's that are predicted later in the week sound a lot better to us.