It’s alway sad to say goodbye to cruising friends that you have been cruising with for the last few months. After our time in Marathon, cruising the Islands, and then making our way up the ICW to Brunswick, Georgia together, it was time for Tide’s…
September Song 2011-06-26 14:12:00
No, that’s not our slip or a face dock. The current was ripping and it caught the bow of September Song. The only thing I could do was to position the boat to rest up against two fingers to keep from running into other boats and wait for slack tide. No…
September Song 2011-06-26 14:11:00
Time to take on some cheap fuel. Well, the cheapest on the East coast. 800 gallons at ONLY $3.55 per gallon.Our last day/night with Tides In before they head North. We look forward to connecting with them up North in a few weeks. We will miss you guys!…
September Song 2011-06-26 14:10:00
The smoke in Florida and South Georgia has been with us almost every day. At last count there were over four hundred wildfires in Florida. This is a look at the sunrise through the smoke. Your eyes burn, it smells bad, and you can hardly breath. What a…
Frankfort the financial center of Germany and the EU
One of the things we learned on the tour is that Frankfort is the financial center for Germany and even for the EU as the European central bank is located in this city.These two towers (even though you can not see that they are separate towers fr…
Important visitors in Frankfort
The tour we took allowed us to get off and on the bus at strategic stops. This stop was close to the Center of town were the government buildings are located.Everything was barricaded off and it seemed like all the Germain police were there to gu…
Frankfort from the bus
We boarded a guided bus tour of Frankfort and took in the sights from the top of the double dekker. The weather had been “off and on” but we enjoyed a good day with no rain. Here we are crossing one of the bridges over the Main and it is quite di…
Frankfurt walking tour
Here we are in one of the busy streets of Frankfurt with the main rail station in the back ground. We soon got tired of walking around and after having a quick lunch at one of the booth’s we looked for a guided tour on one of the double decker bu…
Frankfurt am Main
We are back……I know it has been a while since our last posting. That is because we went to Holland with our friend Geert Kleinbleumink. While in Holland we visited our friend Ken who was on his boat in Weesp.Weesp is close to Schiphol (Amsterdam ai…
Ancient City of Teos
Yesterday we decided to extend our cruising time to make it to Sigacik and pull into Teos Marina. We looked at a weather forecast and decided that with the winds picking up we didn’t want to get caught in a storm. Glad we did, the winds are around 35 -…
