Fort Lauderdale Station 🚉 is the starting point for the trek. Being that I parked the rental car 🚗 there, the day will end there as well.

The No Plane reference is to the fact that I arrived ahead of my son and three granddaughters. So I have a day to fill and thus an adventure to create !

The first step was to purchase a $5.00 ticket 🎟 and head south towards Miami…

I will add to the post 📫 as the day plays out…

The Miami Marlins are hosting the San Francisco Giants today, and it’s 4 for $44 Day. Maybe that is stop ✋️ #1????

It would appear that the stop to take is the Metrorail Transfer, where you switch over ( same ticket still works) for the ride to downtown.

Yeah, that’s the ticket 🎟 !!!

Music 🎶 is our friend 🧡

Free Hat 👒 for all Father’s ! Need proof for Lin that I didn’t buy another hat.

Miami,

I love ❤️ what you’ve done with the place ! The Marlins were still playing at a football stadium when I made my stop ✋️ on the Poor Man’s MLB Loop.

So say this is a serious upgrade doesn’t due it justice. Just the retractable roof

Bottom 2nd, Kyle Stowers just launched a rocket 🚀, Marlins leading 1-0.

2:10 – end of 2nd inning, 1-0

They are getting ready out in Omaha for Game 2 between the Heels and the Sooners. UNC must win in order to keep playing ball.

Giants with a two out rally in the top of the third, tying the game.

Marlins scratch one out in the bottom of the 4th inning, lead 2-1

Stop ✋️ #2 – Baymont Park for the FIFA ⚽️ FANFESTIVAL!

There is no charge for admission

NO GOAL, Iran was offsides

UNC just tied OklahomaI at 2-2 !

1st half dehydration break – 3:30

UNC leads 3-2

First Final Score :

Marlins 2, Giants 1

Crowd 18, 749

4:30 pm – Iran 🇮🇷 Belgium 🇧🇪 still nil-nil in the 65th minute.

Carolina now leads 4-2, [Bottom 5th] looking to play again tomorrow !

If you find yourself in New Bern, North Carolina, two things to know. First, 🐻 🐻 are a big deal, and you can visit the actual store where Pepsi-Cola was born into existence.

Thanks Pappy !

While I have zero desire to ever own a boat 🚢, my favorite place to be is always on a Ferry Boat ! Son of a Son of a Sailor, I went out on the sea 🌊 for adventure is the opening line of the song 🎵 and today will include #3, #4, and #5 of the eight.

Ferry ⛴️ boats are like people in that they come in many different shapes and sizes with many different destinations.

The one right above me was Ship #3, and the one up top is the one that I’m currently on going from Swan Quarer to Ocracoke. We sailed ⛵️ at 1:30 pm and will be on the water for quite some time!

Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Thank you, Brother Osborne and Pastor Joel !

Let’s see 👀 what we can get done today !

Have a Blessed Day 🙌

For this one, we turn back the clock ⏰️ to the early 1980s, when life was full of challenges that would be hard to comprehend.

Young, married, and trying hard to find ways to feed your children is the condensed version, but Lin and I would need to find a bag 🎒 of cash 💸 just to make our way to being poor.

Married too early and lacking any type of education between us, we relyed on Prayer 🙏 and any carrot 🥕 we could put on a stick. One of the challenges to that was not eating the carrot.

To say that we weren’t in a good place would be an understatement! But music 🎶 was free, and Jimmy Buffett was singing about exotic places. This led me to go to a local trophy 🏆 shop and spending $20.00 that would have been better spent on groceries.

We created a trophy that the top part was a ⛵️⛵️⛵️ sailboat, and the engraved part read as follows…

Stay positive, and you will make it to Atlantic Beach ⛱️, North Carolina!

That trophy was part of our life for over forty years. It wasn’t until we left Orcas Island that we said our goodbyes.

Everything in life is about timing and God’s plans. Being that I had never stepped foot on Atlantic Beach ⛱️, today was the perfect time to do it.

Through the grace of God, Lin and I reached a level beyond our expectations, and as promised, we did as much as we could to help others.