The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Oft Go Astray
and so did our tentative plan as was outlined in our closing post of the 2009 season.
Our plan was NOT to stay at Oak Park Resort Marina this year and do a bit more traveling. We spent the past few months planning and discussing where would go this upcoming season. I even went to the Florida Keys for 6 weeks to search out different marinas and places to lie on the hook. In all of our discussions and planning we forgot one little detail.
Although, not little at 90lbs, Toby our Golden Retrevier,
never crossed our minds. You see, Toby gets sea-sick, and like most cruisers we just forgot about his illness and figured we would bring him with us.....but that can't be done.
Toby will turn 10 this July and for the past 8 years he has spent his summer weekends in a kennel. He is so adapted to that kennel that he even know which is his cage and his run and goes right to it the moment we bring him there on a Friday, and he must know the sound of our car come Monday mornings because he is up and ready to go home every weekend. The first time we brought Toby aboard our boat, he got sick within minutes and after a visit to his vet, we were told it is simple sea-sickness. The vet told us to give him a Dramamine or Bonine and that should do it, but neither did the trick. Actually both meds made him even worse on the boat, and the vet said our other alternative was a injected drug, but that the drug may cause his disposition to change. We did not want that and decided that Toby was just not a "boat dog". The three of us learned to live with that fact.
So, after returning from Florida last week, I signed a contract with the marina and once we get launched, we will be residents there for the summer of 2010....again.
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