The relentless grind north proceeds. We departed shortly after 5 AM to start our 80 mile day north up the Strait of Georgia. This body of water is the northern section of the newly designated Salish Sea (the southern portion includes Puget Sound)…
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5-30-2011 – Silva Bay
By comparison to yesterday’s bash up Puget Sound, today was leisurely. We elected to use Silva Bay on Gabriola Island as our jumping off point for running north up the Strait of Georgia. In the past we’ve used Nanaimo but moorage is pricey and it c…
5-29-2011 – We are off
I think we set a personal record for getting from Lake Union to outside the locks. We left our dock at 6:58 and were motoring from the locks by 7:57. That included opening two bridges and locking through the small locks. We didn’t h…
Palamutbuku and Knidos
This is the email about the Palamutbuku and Knidos stops during our trip to Datca.
Palamutbuku and Knidos
The two carpet shops we’d gone to see in Datca were no longer open so we decided to go visit Knidos at the tip of the Datca p…
Ready to Leave (almost)
We moved onto the boat yesterday and will use today for settling back in and doing a final shutdown of the house. It is amazing how much we’ve forgotten in the nearly nine months from not having lived on the boat. We also like to do a couple of nigh…
Datca, Knidos and Palmutbuku
Tomorrow is our 12th anniversary! Amazing. "When you start on your journey to Ithaca then pray that the road is long." So all I want for my 12th anniversary is another 12 and another 12 and another 12…..which will…
Carpet photos
The sun is shining, the Red Sox are exploding with runs, and are tied for 1st place in the American League East, and, we love our new carpets! So this is the end of the carpet saga, at least for the time being. Here are some photos o…
We bought carpets!
It was all serendipitous, but we actually bought some carpets! We were so busy buying the carpets I took very few photos. It was really all shopping and buying! We did have a lovely adventure along the way, but the final stop was a ca…
Milas and Bodrum by Motorbike 3
I’ve been missing following the Sox simulated games so got up at 4 am to watch. I’d confused myself thinking we were 9 hours ahead rather than 7, so the game was in the 5th inning. By the middle of the 8th I went back to …
Sad News
This is certainly off-topic from a cruising blog but this is my blog so I get to decide what to write about. Last Saturday, May 14, my mother, Vida Hanson, passed away. She was 94 years old. Her death was sudden in that she had no major chronic ailmen…
