December 4, 2016
We're back...no, no, no, not back back. I'm back to blogging again. I'm just hoping there are
still people out there who are reading still and interested!
First I want to apologize to all the people we didn't get to
see this summer. Working made it difficult: he worked Tuesday to Saturday and I
worked Thursdays through Monday. Sometimes we had a day off together but it was
a fluke when we did. And Rick worked until the end of October. When we weren't
working we were fixing, looking for parts and collecting the stuff we needed to
bring back down to the boat.
Yesterday at noon we left after packing the trailer. We went
through Southampton and Port Elgin... the closest border crossing for us, and
managed to stop at the gymnastics club to say goodbye to Quentin, where he is a
coach now. He is really good at gymnastics!! Luckily Liz arrived at the same
time to pick up Natasha and she had Todd with her, so we got to say goodbye to all of them again,
except Geoff but we had seen him at the house earlier., as we were heading to
Port.
It was cold and blowy and by the time we got south of Port
Elgin, it was raining and snowing on and off all the way to Grand Bend, after
which it just drizzled a bit here and there.
We crossed the Bridge
at Sarnia / Port Huron with absolutely no hassles except the guard wanted to
know how many cabins we had. But we are on the wrong side of Florida
apparently...he prefers the Gulf. We stopped at a Super 8 - whoa expensive in
the States - but comfortable. We left this morning at 9 am and started south.
The car is handling the trailer well. The roads in southern
Michigan SUCK!!! Our mileage is up probably because of the rough roads but gas
is less than 60 cents a litre! Woohoo! Add exchange and it makes it around 75
cents. Ohio roads are 100% better!
Our next stop is to visit the Iguana Man [Dr. Iverson] at
Earlham College, Indiana, then on to North Carolina to catch up with Carol and
Ross. Hope to be at the boat by the weekend, but...y'all know how well we plan
things!!! Later!
December 5, 2016
We stopped in Centreville, just outside of Richmond Indiana,
and visited with John and Sheila Iverson. They have a magnificent property that
they are converting back to indigenous forest, and we talked about everything
from tiling floors, raising dogs [they have a beautiful Doberman named Rosie],
to the election tragedy! We had a great visit, played a fun game of Rummikub
[?] and talked some more. We stayed over night and after a morning coffee were
on our way to North Carolina.At one of the Rest stops about 4 hours from Indiana, we
checked the trailer.
Uh-oh the whole box had shifted backwards off the frame. So
we had to unpack it and find the spectra line [super rope for sailors] that we
picked up. It was just long enough to tie down the box. When we got to a town
with stores in the Appalachian mountains [West Virginia] , we stopped to buy ratchet
straps. It seems to have worked. When we stopped for the night the box was
still where we put it back. We have been discussing ways to re-build or
re-attached it when we get to Florida.
Seems the weather is going to change and snow will be
chasing us down to the boat. We are hoping it will turn to rain but the amount
of rain predicted for Georgia the Carolinas and North Florida is a bit
scary...5-10 inches..
But tomorrow we will be on the road again.
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