Wedding Bells!

We left Dory on the hard and drove to Dallas for our son’s wedding.

The trip west was fairly direct, and we spent about six weeks before the wedding helping our son prepare to move, and also moving stuff we’d stored with him into a self-storage unit.

This also allowed us to attend several pre-wedding parties, and, of course, the wedding itself.

What a delightful trip, and a beautiful wedding!

On the return trip, we stopped in Austin and met with a dozen friends who had also worked in Saudi with us, and now returned to the central Texas area. From there, we visited other friends in Mississippi, and then traveled to the Albany NY area for a surprise anniversary party for Sue’s sister and brother-in-law before returning to reboard Dory.

We cruised aboard the Fantome on our 25^th anniversary, in May, 1996. We had a great time, and the trip perhaps whetted our appetite for cruising in a more serious way.

We were saddened to hear of Fantome’s loss with all hands, two years later, in Hurricane Mitch.

Here Sue and Bill prepare to board, May 6, 1996:

We took this on 5/6/96 in Antigua. This is English Harbor, from the mountain above:

Here is the Fantome herself. We took the photo from a launch, on the way to shore. This was the first week of May, 1996, and was probably off of St. Maarten.

Here, Bill III takes part in one of the games aboard. This was called the “Boat Race” and involved either drinking a bottle of Guiness Stout, or pouring the bottle over your head, as Bill demonstrates.

It was pretty messy, and to our delight, the Captain led the charge to leap overboard afterwards.