Caloosa Spirit

Catalina 42 mkII

Sunsets

First Watch Restaurant, Sarasota, FL 06-05-06

Panera Bread Company 03-12-06

Southpoint Anchorage, Stuart, FL 03-12-06

Vero Beach Municipal Marina 02-13-06

Charleston City Marina 11-26-05

The Magma Newport gas grill 11-07-05

The Pirate's House Restaurant in Savannah 11-02-05

An electric toaster 11-02-05

A custom foam mattress—aaaaaaahhhh!! 09-30-05

Seaweeds

Marathon Boat Yard, Marathon, FL 06-05-06

Old Port Cove Marina, North Palm Beach, FL 03-12-06

Laundry in the rigging 02-13-06

A clogged—or non-existent—air filter 12-10-05

Any marina that tucks its pump-out station in a corner and/or charges an outrageous price to use it. 11-16-05

Owning two boats at the same time 09-30-05

Panera Bread Company

Many may not realize it, but this bakery chain is a gift to the high-speed-internet challenged. That’s anyone who needs a high-speed connection but has no access to one. Like us. We haven’t yet bitten the $60-a-month bullet for Verizon Broadband (partly because we’re not always in broadband range), so our only cyber connection is still through our cell phone. Translation: v-e-r-y-s-l-o-w. When we bought our new laptop we needed—desperately needed—a high-speed connection for software activations and updates, and we finally found just the ticket at Panera Bread. The wi-fi was free, we had a quiet table, and there was even an electric outlet handy so that we weren’t limited to the laptop’s battery life. We stayed as long as we wanted, no one disturbed or hassled us, and we were able to get the computer up and running—something we had been struggling with for a couple of weeks. We will be eternally grateful to the techno-savvy entrepreneurs who developed the Panera Bread chain, and we’ll eagerly seek out Panera locations in other areas. Come to think of, maybe we’ll try the bread, too.

Posted Sunday March 12, 2006

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