Almost home!

We haven't had internet access since leaving Miami, so you may be surprised to hear that, as I write this on Sunday morning, we're approximately 26 hours from docking behind our home in Punta Gorda. Skipping a stop in Key West brought us one day closer to home. We anchored off the coast west of Everglades City last night; we just passed Naples and expect to anchor off Useppa Island or Cayo Costa tonight. From there we're about four hours from home, but we promised Mom, who wants to be waiting on the dock when we come down the canal, not to arrive before she gets there, around 12:30-1:00. She helps teach a line dance class Monday morning, and with the two hour drive, can't get there before then. No problem, Mom...after 3½ months, we can sleep in a little on our last day and take our time.

The journey isn't over yet, though, and we'll have more to say when it is, so don't leave us yet.

We've had our best and longest stretch of fabulous sailing of the trip since leaving Miami; we've sailed every day and it's been close to perfect. Today and tomorrow promise to be the same.

On a totally unrelated note, I just finished reading a book, Epicenter, by Joel C. Rosenberg, which blew my mind, opened my eyes, and changed my thinking.

I'm highly skeptical of things I read, but Rosenberg convincingly establishes his credibility in the first few chapters of the book. He is well-respected by world leaders and other influential people, and has interviewed an impressive array of top political, economic, military, intelligence, and religious experts from the U.S., Russia, and Middle East. In Epicenter, he writes about recent, current, and future events in the Middle East in light of biblical prophecy as recorded in Ezekiel 38-39.

Although this book is non-fiction, Rosenberg has also written several political thrillers about the Middle East that proved to be startlingly prophetic, one of which opens with radical Islamic terrorists hijacking a plane and flying an attack mission into an American city. He wrote it before 9/11.

Gary read Epicenter when he was with us and I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. Wayne is next in line. You can learn more about it at www.joelrosenberg.com. I can't recommend it more highly.