Family & Friends

We enjoyed seeing the Inner Harbor in Baltimore having grown up near this area when this city was much rougher around the edges. We toured Fort McHenry, ate dinner at Phillips Crab house, had more crab in Lexington market and enjoyed the wonderful aquarium. We went to the aquarium on Halloween night and we left Emily on the boat and took Harry Potter with us. Sharing that night with John and Mary from Navigator made it all the more special.

A short trip down the Bay brought us to good friends Doris and Jerry who live on a creek off the Magothy River with their own dock. Despite the numerous verbal warnings from my navigation program that the “depth is too low”, we plowed though the mud right up to the dock and stayed for a week. We used their water and electric and spent most of the week trying to give money to them only to have them sneak it back on the boat. Good friends are priceless. Kim and I both saw several other childhood friends and it was nice to relive some old memories.

My Mother drove over from Ocean Pines, Maryland and stayed on the boat for most of the week and it was truly a joy to have her with us. She survived some marathon walking in DC and the Spartan conditions on the boat with true grace. I managed to see my brother Jeff and much of his family on Emily’s 8^th Birthday and they fixed a nice meal and made it special.

We are now working our way down the Chesapeake Bay towards some more old friends and finally, Dear reader, we will be entering the Intercoastal Waterway (ICW) and making a dash (as if that that word could ever apply to trawlers) for warmer waters.

Tom