LudingtonSeptember 11,12Like many other towns, Ludington was a nice stop with downtown nearby. There was also a beautiful park right next to the marina, with many sculptures that depicted the town’s history. One sculpture, Reflections, was a symbol of …
From Ludington, MI to Michigan City, IN
LudingtonSeptember 11,12Like many other towns, Ludington was a nice stop with downtown nearby. There was also a beautiful park right next to the marina, with many sculptures that depicted the town’s history. One sculpture, Reflections, was a symbol of …
September 3-19 – Propped Migration
Rather than pretend I am keeping up the blog by back dating entries, this post is a roll-up of things since Ketchikan. There is a wonderful movie about birds, Winged Migration. I feel as though we’ve become a part of a human equivalent by joining th…
St. Michaels to Solomons (Sep 3 to Sep 18 )
Joe was starting things up for our departure and found that the breaker switch for the auto pilot was broken. “It’s a boat.” Joe, of course, had a spare and once he’d located it, Bruce helped out getting the old one out and the new one in. So, we left…
Kensblog Offseason – Return to Hong Kong
Greetings all!
Roberta and I have some big news…
At the end of my last blog entry I mentioned that we had made the decision to take our boat, Sans Souci, to Singapore. However, after returning to Seattle, Roberta and I gave it more thought, and ch…
She Just Keeps Rolling Along…
September 19, 2010We left Kaskaskia Lock at 8 AM with a goal of Little Diversion River Channel in mind as our next night’s safe haven on the Mississippi River. After six and a half hours of motoring we found the little channel tucked into a small…
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18TH
The fun never stops on a boat. Yesterday just before the arrival of our guest, the forward head (toilet) shall we say acted up. Good news, we had the replacement part. Bad news, it’s a stinky job! Roscoe and LaFoote got it fixed though. I made myself…
I’d say it was a good days work
Made some progress today with a lil’ help from some friends. First section up! This thing is a monster! There’s no way to conceive in your head how big this thing is going to be until you start to put it up!Second section and another WTF have I gotten …
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 …
