(I post this from the boat and will add pictures next time we have WiFi) We are extremely frustrated at this point. It has been 10 weeks since I renewed my passport online! Still nothing! I call a few times weekly, each call yields 2.5+ hours on hold, then an agent that has to transfer me to the “online renewal agent”, another 2.5+ hours more on hold, finally an agent that can do nothing!! Each time I am trying to get an appointment at the…Continue Reading “… and we wait, and wait, and wait”
I again have dropped the ball and not posted in quite some time. I am promising myself. I’m going to get back on this. We were headed to st Augustine to do boat work back in Oct. we remained there through mid Dec doing a refit on the instruments and more! List at the bottom of post. We final splashed on Dec 13th and remained afloat with no leaks!! A huge win in our book! We moved down the east coast of Florida to vero…Continue Reading “What we’ve been up to…”
Enjoy Episode 5 on the Erie Canal:
It has been a while since I posted anything. Time just seems to get away from me these days. I always joked that there is nothing busier than a retired person… yep there is… a retired person living on a boat!! In May we sailed the boat to Titusville and got her all prepped for hurricane season. We left S/V Freedom on May 24th to head to Pine Creek in Pennsylvania. We needed to open and clean the cabin and get it ready for my…Continue Reading “We are back…”
We pulled out of Marathon shortly after the Cruiser’s Net started (around 9:30). Stopped at Burdines for some fuel – Stew had filled the diesel tank with the jerry cans so we needed to fill the diesel jerry cans as well as the gas jerry cans. It cost $105!! Hard to believe but gas and diesel are very high in the keys. On our way out the channel we had some entertaining dolphins. A large group that seemed to be mainly playing, jumping all over…Continue Reading “Bahia Honda… Finally”
We had so many plans for our time here at Boot Key Harbor but my being sick for over 2 weeks certainly ate up alot of that time! Once I was feeling better I still was not 100% so we could only do small things. We did try to enjoy the sunset every night. One project we really needed done was our mast light changed. Yes, up the 56′ mast!! A friend of ours, Christian (S/V Uinen a.k. S/V Distant Drummer), offered to do this……Continue Reading “Boot Key Harbor”
It was a long pandemic summer in Erie but we made it and the Erie Canal was finally open to “thru” traffic. So on Tuesday September 12th we pulled out of Presque Isle Bay and headed to Buffalo to unstep the mast and head down the Erie Canal. Enjoy Episode 4:
Dec 9th (Sunday) I started feeling bad. It started with feeling like something was in my throat that I couldn’t dislodge. I kept clearing my throat. We had some errands to do and spent some time working on the blog while Stew continued working on the teak. Monday I was feeling worse but I was just coughing a bit and had a headache. I spent most of the day working on the blog. I started looking for where I could get a covid test. If…Continue Reading “I have Covid! (Omicron)”
Stew completed another episode that covers our first live-aboard summer in Erie. This is after we moved aboard during the pandemic and found out we could not leave Lake Erie – both the Erie Canal was closed and Canada was closed! Stew took a job working on Undercover Billionaire season 2 for Discovery channel. Due to the pandemic he had to live in a hotel about 5 miles from where I was living on the boat. He had to quarantine for most of the week…Continue Reading “Episode 3: Covid Summer”
mile marker 1218 Saturday, (NY day), we were up with the sun to welcome the new year. It was a spectacular sunrise. We had a nice breakfast then I set about making the food for the New Years dinner. I steamed the sweet potatoes for the brownies in the solar oven, then did the potatoes for the mashed potatoes. This kept steam out of the boat which was great. Later I started cooking the brownies in the solar oven but ran out of sun. It…Continue Reading “Officially on a Mooring Ball”