Cocoa Village

3 Nights @ Cocoa Village.  Weather was cold and windy, especially Monday night when it "roared" most of the night.  The village is very cute with shops, restaurants and pubs.  Took the opportunity of having a Publix and West Marine within a couple miles to pick up some groceries.  I know how to provision for a long weekend of playing - we're learning how to provision for day to day living.  We have discovered that living on a boat is different than vacationing on a boat.  Living on a boat requires some regular routines that vacationing doesn't (cleaning, laundry, groceries) that we will develop.  We have also discovered that we need a day calendar, we have had to really think hard to remember what day of the week it is.

We visited Travis Hardware, which has been in business since late 1880's and was started by Colonel S.F.Travis, who served in the American Civil War who had a sailboat.  He went up and down the rivers, delivering items and taking orders from Jacksonville to Fort Pierce.  Bricks and mortar were established in 1892 initially as a warehouse before becoming the retail store that is there today.  The hardware store is still operated by the Travis family and still offer free delivery except no longer by barge.  

Local establishments that we checked out that are definitely worth going back to again; Ryans Village Pizza; Village Idiot Pub; Dog-n-Bone English Pub and Murdocks Bar & Char.

This evening was topped off by a rocket launch.  It was a fairly small launch, but spectacular none the less.  I can't imagine what the shuttle or Apollo must have been like from this vantage point.