It rained a lot last night. No leaks in the van so it was just nice, soothing torrential rain noise. Our campground was quiet. In the morning I did my walk through some trails in the campground. Only got semi-lost once. Good opportunity to get the new trail runners a bit muddy. Getting ready to…
Alabama, why did you do this? I was ill-prepared for a time change. Our Garmin 890 GPS was obviously broken. 2.5 hours of travel and an arrival time in 1.5 hours. That doesn’t make any sense. Fortunately Waze had the “correct” arrival time. Until we hit the Alabama border. Dang, it’s like a whole different…
Another long drive today. Weather was glorious this morning, mostly. My walk took me around the busy streets near Cracker Barrel in Winchester. We hit the road around 0850 and stopped at Costco for gas. Thanks, Costco. The weather was warm but windy. We drove in irons all day. The van isn’t great into a…
Who said we don’t need plans? We sought the weather window after the freezing rain ended but early enough to make good distance before sunset. Of course allowing for border crossing and various stops. Target: 0800 Departure. Forecast said that would be fine. Should be above zero and the rain down to a sprinkle. Easy,…
It’s been a while. Seems we have / are going through a pandemic. Let’s take a moment to get caught up before we introduce the latest adventure. Time to be painfully real. In September, 2020 we lost Dendog. 50% of milddogs and 100% my brother. It wasn’t COVID, but that didn’t help. Fuck you, cancer!…
Background: on April 18, just before heading to Oakville to get the boat ready, I came down with a cold. That cold got progressively worse for the next 3 weeks. Day 3 it was really bad. Among the newer symptoms , I lost hearing in my good ear. I couldn’t hear much at all. First…
Children, don’t let your balloons float away, they end up on / in Lake Ontario. Short post today. We made it to Cobourg. We had decent winds for a few hours so we sailed on a broad / beam reach. But alas, the winds died down so we motored for 8 of the 10 hours….
Boom! That just happened. The boat made it to Scarborough with us on it. Wait, the most critical news. I FORGOT PEANUT BUTTER!!!!!!!! Highlights. Light swirly winds so no sailing so just motoring Motoring past the CN tower pretty much an entire day a lot of loons, ducks, swans a bloated dead raccoon floating by…
May 4, 2019 We made it! Drive, Uber, train, train, Uber and then we were at the boat. Good news, the docks now have power and water so we are juicing up and we added some water to the tanks. Today was about getting the boat ready. We did a bunch of stuff. Most importantly…
Shit. Bravado is not always enough to overcome a lack of skill. But let’s give it a go. Hoping for great weather. Prefer no wind to too much wind. Need some background? Click here: [Kiss my ass I bought a boat, I’m heading out to sea The plan: Just me and child #1. Did I…
