The Korean War MemorialThe lineups to pass by the wall of names at the Vietnam memorial were huge; many left flowers and/or pictures of loved onesThe motorcycle paradeA vet is searching the book of names at the Vietnam MemorialWe rented a car with Jim …
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Annapolis City Docks, Annapolis, Maryland
Spent a good night on the mooring ball, but our plan was to go into the City Docks if space became available today. Crawdad went into the first space, then watched for another boat to leave, which it did about 11. Crawdad radioed us and we came r…
Annapolis, Maryland
The one remaining functioning screwpile lighthouse marks Thomas Point shoal; we passed it just before we turned in to the Severn river and Spa Creek to AnnapolisSeveral cadets from the naval academy out and about the townWe had dinner at a restaurant a…
Spring Cove Marina, Solomons, Maryland
The little solar powered car/golf cart that took us to the grocery store yesterday. It had just clouded over so the driver had put up the plastic sides just in case.The lightkeeper and his family lived in the lighthouse; one lighthousekeeper and his wi…
Tangier Island to The Solomons, Maryland
May 22, 2011Parks Marina, Tangier Island, VirginiaWe are on Tangier Island, a small island on the east side of the Chesapeake Bay. The island is one mile by three miles, and was first settled in 1686 by John Crockett, followed by the Pruitts and …
Parks Marina, Tangier island, Virginia
Still at Tangier Island, weather not good for travel today, plan to go to Solomons tomorrow
Tangier Island
Docked at Tangier island, more when we have a better signal
Doziers Regatta Point Yacht Club, Deltaville, Virginia
Good day to get chores done, planned for our next few stops and got reservations made. We hope to be in Annapolis by the middle of the week, but it is Commissioning Week for West Point, the Blue Angels are putting on a show on Wednesday and Friday, and…
Doziers Regatta Point Yacht Club, Deltaville, Virginia
The courtesy car is a great big old Buick Roadmaster station wagon. The fruit and vegetable stand; they were picking the vegetables right in front of the stand, so we knew they were freshQuiet day today, spent the day getting caught up with some chores…
Doziers Regatta Point Yacht Club, Deltaville, Virginia
We left Yorktown under sunny skies this morning, calm seas. We were about 12 miles up the York River, so went back out to the Chesapeake. By the time we got onto the Bay, it was somewhat cloudy and our calm seas had become sloppy, not really terribly r…
