Where next?

Hi kids!

I'm sorry we haven't posted more updates for you guys recently. We are
in Daytona Beach, Florida. After Christmas we came back to our boat.
The weather in Florida turned cold. Colder for longer than it had ever
been. The temperatures are twenty degrees below normal and have stayed
that way ever since.

We left from Maine in September. Maine is the farthest north state on
the east coast. North places are usually colder. We sailed and sailed
to get south because south places are supposed to be warm. But for the
last few days it has been colder here in the morning than in Maine
where we came from! I found that out on the Internet. The fine people
of the federal government put buoys in the ocean to measure waves,
temperature and wind. You can get the information from the buoys on
the Internet. Try this link, for example:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41010

We have to decide where to go next. If you carefully examine your
globes you will discover that sailing from Maine to Florida is only
halfway to the islands of the Caribbean. We could just go further
south in Florida and hope for warmer weather. Or we could sail east
from here, then south to the islands. Doing that would require great
courage because it would be a trip of over a thousand miles on the
open ocean. Do you know how far a thousand miles is? It's a heck of a
long way, little buddies, I can tell ya that.

I suspect we will ponder a while then, at the last minute think of an
excuse to go south in Florida. At least for a while.

I want to go to the US Virgin Islands somehow. I hope we make it.

Be good children and tell us what you think we should do. Play it safe
or head off shore? Hmmm....