I’ve been reliving our cruise on Drift Away by rereading this old blog, and I have to say that it was an incredible adventure. Plus Pam and I met some amazing people. This post from a few years ago was about reaching 100,000 hits. I…
Over Half a Million Hits now?
I’ve been reliving our cruise on Drift Away by rereading this old blog, and I have to say that it was an incredible adventure. Plus Pam and I met some amazing people. This post from a few years ago was about reaching 100,000 hits. It…
West Highland Line
The West Highland Line was voted the world’s best train journey by Wanderlust Magazine. The trip runs through the scenic Scottish highlands and across the Glenfinnan Viaduct to Mallaig on the coast north of Oban. The Glenfinnan Viaduct is the dramatic span crossed by the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter movies. We had wonderfully…
Aug. 9 – Saratoga Springs, NY
Allan H. Treman State Marine Park
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” —Henry Van Dyke
Our friends in Oneonta called us Sunday to tell us they were going to the races in Saratoga Springs on Wednesday…they wanted to know if we’d like to join them. Of course we wanted to! We’re always up for a new adventure. We drove over to Oneonta on Tuesday and enjoyed an evening in Cooperstown. We wandered around town, look at a few of the famous baseball places, did a tasting at Cooperstown Distillery and had a wonderful dinner at the Hawkeye Bar & Grill in the Otesaga Hotel. On Wednesday we spent a great day at the races in Saratoga Springs. I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.
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Glasgow
Impressive Glasgow Cathedral is one of the few cathedrals in Scotland to survive the 16th-century Protestant Reformation mobs nearly intact. The building is huge and seems to go on forever. On a day-trip to Glasgow from Greenock, we toured the cathedral, took in the city views from the adjacent Necropolis, and spent several hours walking…
Lower Falls at Treman State Park
“It’s the simple things in life that bring us the most pleasure—warm sand, wispy clouds, and the sound of waves and seagulls.” —Author Unknown
One of the best places to swim around Ithaca is in Robert H. Treman State Park. Although when we first saw it in April it was hard to believe this was a favorite summer time hangout. The falls were pretty but the water and surround grounds left a lot to be desired. We visited again about a month after we arrived in Ithaca…and it still didn’t look like one of the best swimming holes in America to me!
Southern Georgian Bay
Itrepid cruisers-Wreck Island With our guests having only a week aboard, the need to keep to a schedule dictated our cruising itinerary. We wanted to travel a bit north, but decided it would be more enjoyable to spend time at anchor and exploring by dinghy or kayak rather than travel, so we headed […]
Going…Going…
We are now in full-time cruising mode… …and we cannot begin to express how good this feels… …to be back …Read More
Campbell River
Change of plans……you never know what will happen next when you are on a boat. We left Gorge Harbor on our way to Surge Narrows and the Octopus Islands timing everything to arrive at the rapids at slack tide. A glance at our windlass, which worked perfectly earlier this morning, and we saw oil dripping […]
Why is the Head a Head?
“When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.” —Whoopi Goldberg
We’ve had our grandson come stay with us on The Pearl several times this summer. He’s very inquisitive…”why” is his favorite word. He wants to know everything about the boat, how things work and why certain things on a boat are called what they’re called. You know the head, the galley, stateroom, berth…so it got me thinking the same thing, why do we call it the head? What’s the history of these words and where did they originate?
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