Rainy, cloudy, easy (for me) day. Laundry. Borrowed the car and drove to downtown Norfolk to lunch with dance friends Todd and Deborah. What a treat and what a hoot! It was really lovely for me to be in the area of Norfolk where I'd attended Regional High School Dance Festivals, seeking students for Bates Dance Festival summer programs. Something comforting about going to "old stomping grounds" and recognizing places, especially since everything else about my life just now is new...adventuresome...insecure....unknown...a little scary.
David had a very difficult day searching for the proper oil filter for Grace. Our old Ford Lehman Gustophson engine has some obscure parts. He was on the phone from around 8:45 AM until around 2:45 PM talking to folks from Norfolk to Maine trying to cross reference the part numbers to find something compatible. Still not sure we've found it but will know tomorrow after he changes the oil and either the new filter fits or we put the old, mucky one back in with clean oil and make another decision in NC.
Our plan is to get to the mouth of the ICW tomorrow and start THAT portion of this great adventure.
Great folks here at Rebel Marina - Jamie, David and a few others whose names I forget. Full kitchen, laundry, car, HOT TUB, showers for our use. A lot of honor system stuff rather than a specific charge. Tyler and Mike, from Portland, who we met in Annapolis pulled in about an hour ago. Sweet.
Jamie, above, lives on her 30' boat here in the marina. I'm thinking she is in her mid-30s and I was telling her about being without my toys and bored. Sweet to have someone so much younger "understand" and I think she did and had a suggestion or two.
Below are two photos that got left out of yesterday's post. Enjoy.
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| BIG waves breaking under our boat. |
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| Fall at Laver's Pond, Freeport, ME Sue Jennings, our neighbor, sent it. Beautiful! Homesick, but only a little. |
Hurrah!
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