SHADOW and I took a trip in the van over to the East coast of Florida. This was a trip with a mission. We wanted to see how the skydiving was at Skydive Sebastian. The scenery from 5000' was spectacular. i could see the inlet, the inter coastal waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. What a view. We also looked at houses in both Vero Beach and Sebastian with an eye towards perhaps moving there when our tenure here in spring Hill ends.
We stayed 3 nights at the Sandrift motel and had an efficiency room. I was able to fix breakfast and dinner easily. There was only one king size bed and Shadow made himslf at home next to me. I had put a furniture pad on the floor and he curled up there, but when I woke up in the middle of the night, Shadow had found his way next to me. He spent the next two nights on the bed.
I jumped on two days at the DZ making a total of only 3 jumps. The other day we spent with Vance, the realtor, looking at potential houses. I saw three that I would consider if we moved there that were within the money available.
On the way home this morning, about an hour out of Vero Beach, heading west on route 60, a huge bird flew into the van's windshield with a loud thump. Shadow and I looked at one another, but the van kept rolling. I hit that creature traveling about 60 miles per hour and I think it was killed outright. I need to get the windshield replaced soon. Half an hour after the bird strike, we entered a thunderstorm that lasted for the next 2 hours. It was quite a morning. We arrived back home in a slight drizzle without further incident. it felt good to turn into our driveway. Shadow seemed to be happy to be back home.
