2012 started with our friends Andy and Jane coming from the US to visit us. For the better part of two and a half decades, we have always spent New Years Eve together but it has become more difficult (but not insurmountable!) to continue the traditio…
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Afternoon Drive
We have a loner car to drive as the car we are driving is in the shop getting the air conditioner worked on. We have been wanting to go to the Bennett Vineyards which is about a 30 minute drive from where we have Pale Moon so we were on the road putting miles on […]
Hoppies
All you boaters who are reading our blog, or those of you who have enjoyed traveling vicariously with us, we need your help. Hoppies is our next stop on the Mississippi. It is the only stop for boaters in a 250 mile stretch. The Corps of Engineers doesn’t see any reason to keep it going. […]
7 September 2012 Waterford – Haverstraw – Atlantic Highlands
This is where our Mini Loop began–a round trip of 990 miles, 100 locks, 118 days and our circle is complete. ( We’re counting Federal Lock to Federal Lock–Troy, NY). Waterford is a nice little village and we got a kick out of returning ther…
Hoppies Marina, Kimmswick, MO – 9/6/12
Finally … we can get our air card to work and I have posted the last 3 days.Kathy and Mike We are moving on today and leaving Mike and Kathy so we invited them to the boat for our farewell breakfast. We have so enjoyed traveling with them …
Hoppies Marina, Kimmswick, MO – 9/6/12
Finally … we can get our air card to work and I have posted the last 3 days.
Kathy and Mike
We are moving on today and leaving Mike and Kathy so we invited them to the boat for our farewell breakfast. We have so enjoyed traveling wi…
Imperfect Color Reproduction
We get some spectacular sunsets here at Brunswick Landing Marina. There are marshes to our west. I think that the Georgia heat causes water vapor to rise from the marshes which creates spectacular clouds and resulting thunderstorms. &n…
Sept. 6 – Manasquan Inlet, NJ
Back in the AtlanticOsborn Island – AnchorageWe’re back in the Atlantic…hard to blog out here, so I will add an update later with pics. On our way to Cape May, NJ today. A long run…about 12 hours. Sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Neither of us slept very well last night. We weren’t worried about out anchor holding because we had tried to lift it to move to deeper water and it wouldn’t budge. But, we were worried that we were out of the way of all of the barges waiti…
Transcendental Balloon Tying, or A Lesson in Life
I have written about the extraordinary happiness and serenity of the Indonesian people before, it always amazes me. It would take more of a scholar than I to figure out the reasons why these people of the poorest means are the most serene and have the…
