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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After a month of being on the move, we arrived in Portsmouth VA with the plan to spend the month in one place in order to get some things done. We could settle in a bit and not have to batten everything down daily, run through checklists, and the mental gymnastics of daily route planning.
Cruising may be a leisurely lifestyle, but it most definitely is not a life of leisure. It didn’t take long to figure out the difference between the two. As we headed into the final leg of our trip up the Atlantic ICW to Norfolk we were fine tuning our own style. In general, the pace
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We passed Mile Marker 483 as we continued along our way up the ICW into South Carolina, which for us was the halfway point between our destination of Portsmouth, VA (MM 0) and our departure from Fort Pierce, FL (which was MM 966). In the two weeks we had been cruising, we had already learned
Mystery and Mastery Read More »