7-23-11In April when we last posted to this blog, we were in Vero Beach, FL preparing to start our annual trip north to the Chesapeake Bay. Boy, have there been a lot of things going on since then. …
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Summer 2011
7-23-11In April when we last posted to this blog, we were in Vero Beach, FL preparing to start our annual trip north to the Chesapeake Bay. Boy, have there been a lot of things going on since then. …
Winter Cruising—It’s a Tough Life
The last time that we posted we were in Vero Beach, FL. Well, we are here again, this time to start our travels north. We have had an absolutely fabulous winter this year. The weather has been in the high 70’s or low to mid 80’s most of the time. T…
Winter Cruising in Florida
January 2011It’s amazing….for more than 20 years we dreamed of shipping Diamond Girl to the East Coast and cruising the ICW and the Chesapeake Bay. We are starting the sixth year of our dream and every now and then we pinch ourselves to make sure i…
2010 TRIP SOUTH
December 1, 2010Our summer was fantastic! Not only did we get to spend some time in Kauai, but we also did a great driving trip. Spending time with our friends is always a special treat, and we did a lot of that too.Kauai, HIWell, after a great summer …
Summer of 2010
It’s only been about 3 months since we did our last posting, but we have covered a lot of ground in that time. We completed our trip north on the Intracoastal Waterway (the ICW), then left the boat in Annapolis for a couple of weeks to fly to Hawaii …
January through May of 2010
Wow! Here it is May and we haven’t done a posting since February. Well, we have a bunch to catch up on.The last post left us in Naples, FL. From there we traveled up to Cape Coral and spent some time with our friends Rick and Candice who we had met 4 y…
Cruising South Florida and the Keys
When we left Vero Beach back in late January, we were going to continue down the ICW to Ft. Lauderdale to start our new writing assignment. Our first stop was at Lake Worth. It’s actually in Palm Beach and is very popular with the boaters headed to t…
STARTING A NEW YEAR
In the New Year, when we arrived in Florida from Portland, OR, we couldn’t believe that it was colder in Jacksonville than in OR. Something is wrong here. We had just spent Christmas with our daughter and her family in Portland, and before that we ha…
Cruising South in ’09
Just like the geese, it’s time to head south for the winter. We had a wonderful summer cruising in the Chesapeake Bay, but we always look forward to traveling on the ICW. It’s beautiful and very interesting. There is usually always something new to…
