11/11/12 Sunday Yesterday we covered 90.8 miles from Indiantown to Franklin Lock including passing through 3 locks and 1 bridge that we needed opened. By the time we arrived at the campground/marina we were pooped. Needless to say nothing…
Ft. Myers, We’re Here!
11/11/12 Sunday Yesterday we covered 90.8 miles from Indiantown to Franklin Lock including passing through 3 locks and 1 bridge that we needed opened. By the time we arrived at the campground/marina we were pooped. Needless to say nothing…
Waiheke
From Great Mercury, it was off to the north thru Colville Channel into the Hauraki Gulf – and prime time Kiwi cruising territory. Home to Auckalnd where half of new Zealand’s 4,000,000 people live, it is an area bounded by … Continue …
The Blog Diary
1. Pam and I cruise in slow motion. When we find a place we like, we stay put for months on end. But when we’re moving, we move.2. I write this blog just about every day. It is my personal diary, but posted to the internet…
Pic O’ the Day… Soul Burgers and hangin with the Tivolians
Not a damn thing to do with boats, but yesterday, this scene caught my eye while walking around uptown and I felt it just needed to be a photograph. Nice colors, me thinks.For lunch, Mel and I decided it was about time we tried one of Memphis’s iconic …
R.I.P. Bernard Lansky
Cut from The Commercial Appeal:Bernard Lansky, the co-founder of Lansky Bros. Clothing who was known as the “Clothier to the King,” died early Thursday morning at age 85, according to his family.Lansky, who outfitted Elvis Presley during his time…
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Ah, L’Auberge du Lac and the transient docks—not a bad place to stay 100 miles from Galveston! A very large alligator and several bald eagles were spotted along the way. Alligator sunned himself along the channel bank and the bald eagle searched for fish competing with the many ospreys. Again, we passed many tows […]
More questions than answers
Coming down the ICW (Intracoastal Waterway) toward Florida has been an interesting experience every time. It is never the same as the route is pretty much ruled by the weather and if favorable, we run outside on the Atlantic and if rough and windy, we…
November 14, 2012, Wisconsin
We left Florida and 75 degrees on Saturday, November 10th and got to Wisconsin on Sunday the 11th to heavy rain and 30 degrees. Boy what a difference. It was 2 long days but we were glad we did it in 2 because we woke up to snow on Sun…
F’n Anarchist!
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