Almost Monday. Hey, it takes a bit to get back into the groove!
We did stay in Newburgh until, Wed., and Thurs., and Fri., and Sat., and Sunday... On Monday Sept 27, we dropped the VW Eos off to get a minor repair. Daughter Molly generously offers to pick it up on these occasions--note to Klaus and Betty, Molly likes that little car a lot, too!
We headed south in the Burb, and what a day it was!
We routinely head west to I-81 to get to the south USA. It’s a much more pleasant ride than I-95--ususally--and bypasses all the metropolitan bru-ha-ha in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. On this day we could have been anywhere. The rain poured down and did not wash away fog so thick that we were the only car we could see most of the time. Not that there wasn’t traffic--we weren’t the only ones slogging along, but a slog it was--and like PA, it went on and on and on.
We finally reached, and stopped in, Winchester, VA where we slept the sound sleep of people who’ve bumbled through fog all day. Happily, we awoke to a much clearer day on Tuesday. VA, like PA, takes forever to cross, but it’s a beautiful ride and by evening we’d put NC behind us and were settled in near Columbia, SC. Rode over to Aiken in the morning to have breakfast with Ted and Rita---the brothers certainly do look alike, don’t they?
From Aiken, we rolled into Charleston and once again stopped at our new favorite hotel, the Historic Embassy Suites, or as then 3 year old Becca called it, the Pink Castle, site of the Mangelsdorf family reunion in April, ’09. We returned to the Cold War Sub Memorial, as Fred 1) has been authorized by his shipmates to fund raise for a bench to commemorate the Cutlass 478 at the memorial site, and 2) he has a new camera to try out. It’s a pocket digital--a very light weight replacement for the bag of camera equipment that went missing in GCS in June.
By 5 pm on Thursday, we were once again ‘Back in Boat’ (Did you watch “All of me” yet? GO rent it!!!) YA was happily awaiting us in the tranquil waters of Shelter Cove.
The rest of the week has been a little bit of Paradise. We have tasks every day, and we regularly invoke the ‘rule’ given us by Joan on FOREVER 39 when we were first looking at Great Harbour Trawlers. She said that for a cruiser, a day with two tasks accomplished is a good day. Talk about maxing retirement! We find that we are very, very good at this, and thank you, Joan---you may not have realized that you were offering life-altering advice! :-)
My high school classmate, Paula, brought her traveling companion, Patsy to visit (from their home in Sumter, SC) on Saturday. Was a fun time, a beautiful day, and we walked a couple of miles around the Cove--Disney has an island just over the bridge, and we wandered by to watch the crabbers and fishermen on the dock.
So I looked at the clock today and realized that Monday had passed us by---something to do with new tires for the Burb, taking the boat to the Marina office for a pump out (Yes, we are still cruisers, so to speak!) and then having to check out the delightful restaurant above the Marina store, and sitting on a bench while the guitar player at San Miguel’s restaurant strummed some of our favorite oldies...a busy day!
Onward and upward!
Be well, and, as Garrison Kielor says in his daily 5 minute Almanac, Keep in touch!
Linda and Fred
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