Decompression and Reflections

The past four months have been filled with so many memories of people we have met, places we have seen and activities we have done that sorting out what we would do again and what was most memorable will take some time. To help us on that mental journ…

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH

Watching the New York City morning news we were shocked to hear of the severe storms, including two tornadoes that passed through the city last night. Several people were killed from falling trees. If we had stayed at the Liberty Landing where we were …

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH

It was a quiet day on the boat. Just caught up on things as we plan to go back into New York City tomorrow.It started to rain early in the evening. Hopefully it will end by morning.

Now I know how Noah felt

The rains have finally let up and I got around to working on the bow shed again. There’s no way one person can put one this big up by themselves so I have to rally some troops tomorrow to lift the first section up. It’ll go up in three sections, 10′, 1…

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#24 Catalina Island

Hello from beautiful Catalina Island!  The last two weeks have been so full of activity from dawn until dark, there was absolutely no time for me to write.  It’s been one first after another, and as you may presume, we have taken delivery of …

The Okeechobee Waterway

Excerpt from the 2011 Southern Edition Waterway Guide : The Okeechobee Waterway is considered by many to be the dividing line between Central Florida and South Florida. When traveling from the north, this is where you will begin to see greater changes …

Rain rain go away!

It seems like it’s been raining here for the past two weeks. Every time I try to work on the shed it rains. *sigh* So to console myself I decided to go shopping! Isn’t that what everybody does? Our new boat now has a Wheel! :-)Hopefully the weather wil…

River Scenes

Swabbin the Decks Cassville, WI. Ferry Coming into McGregor, IA. Beach below Lock 9

Pictures of Turkey

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH

The train station is only a 10 minute bike ride from the marina so we caught a train to Grand Central Station. You can get on any of the subway routes and go to just about anyplace in the area.  We purchased a Metro “Fun Pass” for $8.25. With …