We’ve spent most of summer and early fall in marinas. We’ve always felt it’s those we meet that make any location or event memorable. With our new boat life we are finding this to be all the more true, and between our time as transients while cruising (one or two day stays) and the […]
Just finished a week in the boatyard getting some planned – and unplanned – maintenance completed. While this is a routine part of living on a boat, it was all new to us and a learning experience. You may recall from a few blogs ago that we were struggling to find people to do
After the three very different towns that we stopped in around thee Albemarle Sound, we had a few more days left to get back to Hampton Roads. Officially, there were three stops we didn’t make. Two were just restaurants that had a dock and allowed boats to stay overnight if patronizing their place – which
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We stopped in three different small towns in our second week of this cruise, and between them they covered a broad spectrum of the several dimensions of small towns – culture, history, and economics. Four towns if you throw in our stay at Albemarle Plantation, an affluent country club golf community that is sort of
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After over a month in a marina and getting some work done on the boat (that’s a whole other post), we were afflicted with wanderlust again and so we are taking a couple weeks to cruise The Albemarle Loop. All the stops are historic, or quaint, known for nature on display, or a combination of
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This isn’t my typical post. It’s the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and I don’t feel I can let it just slip by like any other Saturday. Being back in Norfolk and Navyland makes it even more in my thoughts this year. And the number 20 just really sticks with me. It represents a generation
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Part Two of our Chesapeake Bay Cruise! Following the first half where we moved north along the western side of the Bay, the second half was a return south along the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia. After the larger and more touristy Yorktown, Solomons, and Annapolis, this side of the Chesapeake. Quieter but still
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I’m going to try something new. I have a lot of photos, so thought I’d do more of a Photo Blog – pictures of where we’ve been with any stories that might go with them, but maybe not necessarily connected by a theme or anything. Just random stuff from the places we go and the
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