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…the sailor's life for me, Ho!

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1900 hour report

Position: N45 degrees 47 minutes W 124 degrees 06 minutes . 28 miles south of Columbia River, 5 miles offshore (Continued…)

Underway Again!

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London of Dickens

Cheers,
  We’re mostly packed up and ready to go; our flight home tomorrow.  We’ll set out tomorrow at noon; our flight is 4ish, the tube trip about an hour.   Our pals Sue and Ed scouted out the best route to Tower Hill Tube st…

The south side of Tower Bridge along the wharves

Cheers,
  Some of my favorite walking places are along the river passing the old wharves.  http://www.whalingmuseum.org/ is a link to the New Bedford Whaling Museum.  It describes the difference between a dock and a wharf and amazingly r…

The tangents of Toynbee Hall

Cheers,
    Today Sue Ed and I walked to the Artizan Public Library to get library cards.  My Canary Wharf card is good for Tower Hamlets libraries but not for city libraries or something like that.  Artizan is much closer so w…

Singkey goes to Birmingham Uni…

Cheers,
  Our time with Singkey flew!  It seems we were just collecting her from the airport, and now she’s off in Birmingham starting her life as a graduate student.  DoraMac feels kind of empty!  But she will be back during Chri…

Sunday “out and about.”

Cheers,
   Today we visited the Tower of London.  And thanks to my Towers Hamlets library card I only had to pay £1 for my ticket.  My long walk to Canary Wharf to get the card is another whole story with lots of photos for another…

Our friend Singkey and her teacher Jessica

Cheers,
    Yesterday Randal and I got on the 5:45 AM first underground train leaving Tower Hill Station to start our journey to Heathrow Airport to collect our friend Singkey who would arrive at 7:20 AM.  We arrived at 7:10 AM and …

2013 Alaska Cruise by the Numbers

We arrived back to our winter moorage on Bainbridge Island on Thursday, September 12.  With luck, we’ll fill in the blank weeks since the last log posting sometime this fall.  In the meantime, I’ll provide a summary of the trip by the num…