One of the things you have to do when you change your lifestyle dramatically is to find a new routine that is comfortable.

When we set off in the boat we were traveling each day. Now that we are stuck in Cocoa for 10 days or more waiting on a motor, we are working on a daily routine.

We are walking to the little general store to get a USA Today each morning and heading to the little coffee shop nearby. We have noticed a couple sailors from the marina who hang out there each morning, at the same table with a changing cast of characters over the span of an hour or so.

It’s a replacement for Ed’s Port City Java morning social, I think. But we haven’t broken into the men’s club there yet. Maybe when I go home for Thanksgiving Ed will join them.

Heck when I come back he will probably be on the staff here as a part-time dock master. He’s already helped a boat dock so it’s just a matter of time.