Friday, November 25, 2011

Well, the good thing about making a turkey is the leftovers. Yummy!! We should have enough leftovers to last until we leave for home. I understand that the weather is pretty nice at home, as it is here. We are expecting rain tomorrow and Sunday, bu…

Deks walk # 1

Randal and I did our first "Thursday Deks Walk" Thanksgiving morning and we can’t wait to go next Thursday.  We had a great time.
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Deks Walk # 1

Deks Restaurant and Bar
The walks are advertised as starting at 9 am (as long as the…

First Year Issues

It is as axiomatic as the Second Law of Thermodynamics (can be translated as Murphy’s Law) that all boats have issues. Clearly some boats have more issues than others. I have had some that were nightmares from the day I … Continue reading &…

Our AIS Is Up And Running. Kinda.

It’s a long story, but the bottom line is that I needed to order a new data and power cable for our Simrad AIS transponder.  I hooked up the power cable yesterday.  I didn’t hook up the data cable to the chartplotter because, well, I’m not su…

American Thanksgiving in Brunswick

We have a rental car for a couple days so we were bold and invited ourselves to Brunswick Landing Marina and had a thanksgiving feast with the cruisers there yesterday. Our friends Bob and Jane (Last Dance) are staying at that marina until we travel …

11/24/2011 THANKSGIVING DINNER ON A REPLICA ON AN 1880 RIVERBOAT WITH A PIRATE

MORHEAD CITY TO SURF CITY ON TOPSAIL ISLAND, NCTHURSDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 50 NM DOCKED AT: BEACH HOUSE MARINA IN SURF CITY,NC ($2.00 /FT W/P OVERALL) SUNRISE: 6:50 AM IN MOREHEAD CITY, NC         &n…

A new hike and lunch at Deks

  Hope everyone had a Thanksgiving with family or friends which is the best part of Thanksgiving.  We had dinner on BeBe with Bill and Judy and there was enough food for all of you to have joined us.  We had chicken and cornbread stuffin…

A Hectic End to Summer

Long time no blog!When last we posted, we were readying to travel from the Czech Republic to Portugal, where we planned to spend 5 weeks before returning to the States in mid-September.We departed Prague sadly. I know many of you are envious of the len…

Thanksgiving with our harbour host in Fairhope Alabama

Bob and Vicki front and centerToday we were invited to celebrate Thanksgiving with Vicki and Bob Riggs who are the harbor hosts and Veteran loopers here in Fairhope Alabama.  Any loopers in the area was invited to attend, just bring a dish an…

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!!

Date             November 24, 2011Day              149 Departure     No travel  – Thanksgiving Day                                        Arrival          Eastern Shore Marine, Fairho…