Unclaimed baggage????

Have you ever lost a bag when you were travelling?  If you never got it back, did you wonder what had happened to it?  Or where all your stuff was?  Airlines lose bags all the time, and it can't just be that their employees are taking all those bags for their own purposes...  So what happens to all the stuff?

We found out on Monday!

This is where all lost luggage goes to die.  It's a large building, filled with stuff that other people have lost, and it's all for sale.  There are electric guitars, cameras, fishing gear, assorted personal electronics, hundreds of books, jewelry (some cheap, and some very expensive), clothing of all types and sizes - including underwear!!!   That's the creepy bit - other people's underwear for sale.  And I saw women going through the racks, item by item.  Yuck.




Today we went into Huntsville, the nearest biggish city.  It is home to the University of Alabama and is also known as Space City.  That's right - dating back to the end of WWII when the Americans brought German scientists here, it has also been home to a large rocket and space science community including NASA.  Who knew?

We, of course, didn't go for any of that.  We went shopping. We found fabric to refinish the worn out love seat and chairs in the salon,  new lampshades, and other sundry bits and pieces to make the place the way we want it.  And while we were there, we had to eat...

Those darned Jamaicans.  They get everywhere :-)






One day soon, we'll be able to untie the lines, and actually leave the dock for a little trip on the river.